Jessica Stolen-Jacobson

Jessica Stolen-Jacobson

  • Joined: July 19, 2023
  • Articles: 3304

This Happened Here: A Saturday Night at Olof’s Place

It is a dark and stormy night: perfect weather for my current activity, which happens to be “sit in a potentially-haunted chapel with a group of 10, two professional ghost hunters, a historian, and an app that purports to translate spectral voices into audible speech.” Later, I will quietly complete a Duolingo lesson before midnight so as not to break my streak; a hard bench in a long-dead pastor’s home church will officially become the weirdest place I have ever learned Polish via an angry bird app.

Letter to the Editor

Thank you to Erik Osberg for meeting with voters in Montevideo last week. As a DFL candidate challenging Rep. Michelle Fischbach, Osberg’s positions were a welcome contrast — especially as the consequences of Rep. Fischbach’s “yes” vote on the so-called Big Beautiful Bill come into focus. That bill slashes Medicaid and SNAP funding — but conveniently, the worst of it doesn’t take effect until after the 2026 election. Imagine that!

Storms add to flooding in local area

Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had to make changes to the water level at the Lac qui Parle Lake Dam near Watson because, they said, of ongoing rain. The Army Corps of Engineers released a press release stating, “The additional water releases are needed to minimize the risk of the reservoir from overtopping the emergency spillway, which happens at an elevation of 941.3 feet. The increased outflow of water into the Minnesota River means additional localized flooding is likely.”