Last fall I picked up 3 kittens from a friend who had too many. They have retained their playfulness and make me so happy. They hide from one another in the garage and chase leaves and tails outside. And they are still very friendly and want to be petted. They may be the best cats I have gotten. I may have to use this source again. My cat

When I was a kid, my cousin and I would attach baskets to our bikes and sweep the neighborhood park for soda bottles. A good weekend haul would fetch us a pocket full of change when we cashed them in at the local Kroger’s. Each bottle was worth a two cents deposit back then. Earnings in hand, we’d pedal over to the A&W and treat ourselves to a well-earned frosty mug of root beer. Life was good, and bottles got recycled!

Mid-February, Rob met with Olivia, a 6-year-old female snowy owl, in Northern Minnesota. Rob: Thank you for chatting with me.

Last week and this week so far has been all about meetings for our staff in which we learned how to use the new software systems we will be using as of March 1st to create our newspapers, and worked through all of our redesign processes in anticipation of fully transitioning our newspapers to CherryRoad Media. Between the meetings and an unexpected death in my family that took me out of state over the weekend for a funeral, it was a week filled with less than my average time to collect news. A challenge, for sure, when filling three newspapers.