May 2024

Ask a Trooper: Grass clippings…

Question: I sent you an email asking about the legality of individuals discharging grass clippings from lawn mowers onto public roads.

Recipe of the Week

Submitted by Myrna Stolen, MarshallA note from Myrna: This dish puts together fast.

Garrison Keillor & Friends: Lets talk aout honesty, grrr, rrrfff, rrrfff..

Whenever I open an egg carton, I think of the chicken at work in the factory, creating this elliptical work of art onto a conveyor belt, to be stolen away, and then the hormones in the chicken feed kick in and the process of creation repeats itself, sort of like me and limericks: I write a good one and it stimulates the next limerick and pretty soon I have a hundred of them, which I could collect in a book but won’t because very few people appreciate limericks — women do not, because so many cruel limericks have been written about women, and when men read a limerick they think, “I could’ve done better than that,” being the compulsive competitors they are, and meanwhile here I am with this work of art in my hand.Minneapolis is great.

Area Church Schedules

Assembly of God, ClarkfieldSUNDAY: Sunday School 9 a.m.; Worship 10 a.m.; Evening 7 p.m.Wednesday: Teens 5 p.m.; Young Explorers 6:30 p.m.Augustana Lutheran Church, ClarkfieldSunday Worship 10 a.m.Bergen Lutheran Church, Granite FallsSunday Worship 11 am.

Chippewa County Courts

MN State Patrol - MarshallMartinez Herrera, Moises Isaac, Willmar; Offense date 4/27/24 Driving After Revocation (Misdemeanor); Plea 5/10/24 Guilty; Disposition 5/10/24 Convicted; Court Decision 5/10/24 Payable without appearance; $200 Fine.