It’s graduation season, a time to look ahead to futures filled with good opportunities. It’s also a time to look back. The graduation ceremony is the final chapter in a high school or college career, a celebration of all that each graduate accomplished. Everyone made choices. Even as ...
With two farmsteads to care for, I have developed a thing about weeds. Specifically, killing them. Liquidating those lambsquarters. Slaying those sunflowers. Murdering those cockleburs. There are various methods available for giving weeds a one-way ticket to the hereafter. A guy can mow them ...
THUMBS UP Take advantage of Memorial Day events It is Memorial Day Weekend, a time for remembering those we have lost over the years. Many area communities are holding special Memorial Day programs on Monday. In New Ulm, Memorial Day observance begins at 9:30 a.m. Monday with a parade ...
To the Editor: So, according to last week’s “Learning in America” letter, Justice Juan Merchan is not a judge, rather a political activist, and all political activists have been indoctrinated by Marxist professors while attending colleges. That’s what I’d call a broad ...
It’s been said that ‘the nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.’ We tell the world who we are as a nation by how we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we hold dear. Memorial Day is a time to remember these fallen heroes and do right by ...
This column is often written in a form called the personal essay. “Personal essays relate the author’s intimate thoughts and experiences to universal truths,” is one definition. “Universal” seems a bit much for mine. Maybe “township truths.” Sometimes personal means my thoughts ...