Dear Annie: I was abused by my dad as a child, and my relationship with my mother was hell growing up. She was verbally and physically abusive toward me well into my 20s. She began a new relationship and things got worse. The situation between us got a little better when she became sick and I ...
To the editor: I would like to voice my opinion on the current abortion arguments making news recently. My feelings come from my experience as a woman who birthed three daughters and a son; while having a miscarriage between the second and third. I also grew up in a single-parent family. A ...
Dear Heloise: You had a letter from a woman who complained that geography isn’t being taught in schools nowadays. It is a subject that has always interested me, and I was lucky to study it in school. Also, my mother bought my sisters and me a jigsaw puzzle of the United States. The capital ...
Dear Annie: I am very confused. I have a friend who is 70 and is in the hospital. She has put a mutual friend, “Dorothy,” down as her daughter. She has a son, but he is a man-child. Our friend Dorothy has so many obligations as it is. Dorothy and I are close, and we are similar ages. I do ...
A lady named Marla, who lives at Cherokee, Iowa recently mailed me an antique artifact. I know that it’s antique because it’s a little bit older than me. The relic in question is a chapbook that was published by Iowa State College in September of 1954. The 70-year-old booklet contains a ...
Thumbs up $6 million in federal funding for three projects coming to New Ulm Several million dollars in federal funding it coming New Ulm’s way across three projects. Sen. Amy Klobuchar visited New Ulm’s municipal airport Wednesday following the announcement that $2.5 million for the ...