Opinion

Garrison Keillor & Friends: Open the doors, let the young mingle among the treasures..
A glorious Friday night at the Met Museum in New York, the great halls packed with thousands of teenagers for Teen Night, admission is whatever you care to drop in the box, a couple bucks, the change in your pocket, high school kids mobbing the joint, the Picasso lady, the naked Venus, the Rodin folks, a 15th-century lady, the naked man with a sword, all looking down on rivers of youthful energy, and a teen gospel choir sings in one marble stairway and a brass jazz band plays in another and a dance troupe from India performs in a gallery — everywhere you look, something is happening.

From the Editor’s Desk
This week my first born arrived in Granite Falls for his month-long leave from Fort Drum, New York.
The Lowe Down: The decline of integrity …
What has become of integrity?

Milan Community News
How could I have forgotten the celebration of Fiesta in Montevideo?That is coming up this week.
Letter to the Editor
As the school year ends and summer begins, we are getting nearer to Father’s Day.

Garrison Keillor & Friends: I rise in my own defense…
I spent 12 hours in a New York ER last Saturday and upon discharge was given ten pages of test results and now I have more information about myself than I know what to do with.

From the Editor’s Desk
I’m learning that my to-do list may potentially never actually be entirely cleared at the end of any given day.

Milan Community News
What a let down.
The Lowe Down: Difference of opinion…
Comedian Rodney Dangerfield used to tell a joke that went, “My psychiatrist told me I was crazy, and I said I want a second opinion”.
The Lowe Down: Hostages in the war on morality…
As citizens, living in what the world sees as a free country, should our state or federal government mandate the books we read, websites to visit, social media outlets to enjoy, who to love, and enforce reproductive laws?