March 2024
Place making symposium to be held
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council and the Granite Falls Community Artist in Residence Program (GF CAIR) will be hosting a Place Making Symposium at Prairie’s Edge Casino outside of Granite Falls on Friday, April 12th.
Westberg Eischens has successful peer review
The review, conducted by independent certified public accountants, found that the company’s quality control in effect for the year ended May 31, 2023, has been suitably designed and complied with, providing assurance of conformity with applicable professional standards, according to the news release announcing the successful completion of the review.The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) established the Peer Review Program to enhance the quality of accounting, auditing and attestation services performed by AICPA members in public practice.
South Dakota State announces summer, fall 2023 graduation list
The following students graduated after the summer and fall 2023 semesters at South Dakota State University.
Women in Ag Day at the Capitol March 25th
Women from the breadth of Minnesota’s agriculture community are invited to share their stories with legislators and key leaders at the Minnesota State Capitol for Women in Ag Day on Monday, March 25.Organizers seek to celebrate the role of women in agriculture and raise awareness of issues and challenges they face in their work.
Shots fired in Maynard
On March 6th at approximately 2:40 p.m.
Letter to the Editor
On February 19, Representative Lislegard (DFL) of Aurora, MN introduced House File 3903.
The Lowe Down: Shining a light on the public’s business…
Citizens in a democracy have a right to know what their government is doing on their behalf.
Ask a Trooper: Mobile advertising question…
Question: I have a question in regards to exploring a business idea that has to do with mobile advertising, such as an illuminated board advertising business.
Garrison Keillor & Friends: It’s democracy, folks, learn to love it…
If a person lives in a democracy, which thus far we do, you soon learn that politics is not an orderly business like cosmetic dentistry or carpentry, it is more like pond hockey or maybe a conclave of sociopaths or an ostrich jubilee, and the messiness can drive you crazy, like finding potatoes in your sock drawer and rutabagas in the medicine cabinet, and the alternative to despair is amusement.So when the Alabama Supreme Court decides that an embryo is a human being and you see Republicans scrambling to distance themselves from this lest they alienate young people of voting age who were conceived in vitro, you wonder if someday sperm will be given the same protection and male masturbation will be considered child abuseThere is no normal anymore.
Police pursuit ends in arrest
On March 5th at around 9:45 p.m., Montevideo Police Officers initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle which contained an individual who had an active Felony warrant.