Southwest Minnesota culvert repair project gets underway this April

The Minnesota Department of Transportation announces that a culvert repair project in southwest Minnesota gets underway in early April. MnDOT will make repairs to more than 130 culverts on highways in Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Redwood, Renville, and Yellow Medicine counties.

Local artists exhibit in New York City

Talon Wilson of Granite Falls and Gene & Lucy Tokheim of Dawson will have their work featured in a new exhibition which opens on April 5, 2025 at the Scandinavia House on Park Avenue in Manhattan, NYC.

Ask a Trooper: Where to stop…

Question: I have a new driver in the house. We were having some discussion on where a person needs to stop when coming to a stop sign and other situations. Can you please write about that? Thanks!

Memory Care Corner: Frontotemporal Dementia – Part 2…

Last time we learned that there are five main types of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The two most common are the behavioral variant FTD (that we learned about last time) and a second called primary progressive aphasia. The other 3 variants are not very common, however, are seen from time to time.

Beyond Reason: That’s what you get…

Lately, I’ve been thinking about values. Not just as a word, but as an invisible force that shapes our lives. Values are the foundation of civilization, the unspoken contract that binds us together. They define who we are, not just as a society, but as a family. We stand for something. We believe in something. Without values, we are lost—adrift in a sea of moral relativism.

Strategic Farming: Let’s talk crops! session talks drones for field images, diagnosing problems and pesticide application

On March 19, Ryan Huffman, Iowa State University Digital Ag Innovation Lab senior research manager and Jorden Kuntz, founder of Biosphere Drone Solutions, joined UMN Extension crops educator Ryan Miller for a discussion about drones in row crop agriculture. This was the penultimate weekly episode of the 2025 Strategic Farming: Let’s talk crops! series of webinars.

Dooley serves over 500 households in Chippewa County

Dooley Petroleum has been distributing a variety of fuels and lubricants to residential, commercial and agricultural sites across the Upper Midwest for more than 50 years. A family-owned company, it was started by Louis Dooley in Murdock, MN as Dooley Oil Company in 1956. In 1985, Louis sold the company to his sons, Randall and Tom and added propane to the list of fuels they distributed. Presently, son Randall is the CEO and expanding the company through Minnesota offering traditional fuels and developing sustainable ones. Founded as a family, Dooley’s continues to live by those values and has an ongoing commitment to ag families by providing them with a reliable supply at the lowest possible cost.