Upcoming Events

Saturday, May 17th: Montevideo Fiesta Flora Plant Sale 9 a.m. to noon.…

Ask a Trooper: Walk this way…

Question: I notice a lot of people walking and running along the highway. The thing that concerns me is that they are moving in the same direction of traffic with their back to the potential hazard. Can you talk about pedestrian safety and what people should do when on the highway?

Become a match maker

United Way of West Central Minnesota is thrilled to announce a new donation matching program in partnership with Jennie-O, Dooley’s Petroleum, West Central Sanitation and Ken & Alix Behm. Throughout the month of May, these generous community partners will Match every dollar raised for United Way, up to $32,500. This campaign aims to support early childhood education programs, including Growmobile, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, The Village Children’s Museum, and more.

This Happened Here: A Museum Heist…

[This week’s “here” is a venerable art museum; this week’s author is my Creative Nonfiction Workshop student Darren Almgren-Bersie, who agreed to let me publish this very sweet personal narrative. From this and everything else he’s written about his wife Emma, I’m glad the below shook out the way it did – she sounds like a real keeper. Enjoy! Also, if you have your own happening… please do send it my way at Jessie.rose.hennen (at) gmail.com. – Jessie Hennen]

Beyond Reason: Persephone…

In a field of wildflowers, amidst a pleasant breeze, ROB PEREZ finds PERSEPHONE, Queen of the Underworld, seated beneath a blooming crabapple tree, sipping pomegranate juice.