Opinion

Letter to the Editor

Editor’s Note: While CherryRoad Media’s Policy regarding Letters to the Editor includes a standard of printing a full name with the letter, these letters were written by juveniles serving in the Circle Sentencing program, thus their names have been excluded from print.

The Lowe Down: 15th Century thinking…

If you don’t think life is amazing, consider the fact that you are sitting on a large rock orbiting the Sun in a galaxy called The Milky Way.

From the Editor’s Desk

If you’re around Granite Falls you have the opportunity to check out the current exhibit at the Granite Area Arts Council’s Gallery, featuring the history of the KK Berge building on it’s 100th birthday.

Taking public notices for schools out of newspapers would hurt public

A significant discussion is taking place at the state Legislature in reaction to the recent announcement that eight community newspapers will close at the end of the month.Under a proposal in the Senate Education Policy Omnibus bill (SF 3567), school districts would no longer be required to publish their proceedings in newspapers and could instead move them to their own websites.We believe the proposal, which is backed by the Minnesota School Boards Association, is a knee-jerk reaction made too quickly after the announcement about the southwest metro newspapers and does not take into consideration possible solutions.While there is a possibility some of these newspapers could still be purchased, there is also a law already in place that says if you don’t have a legal newspaper in your county, those notices can be placed in a newspaper in an adjoining county.

From the Editor’s Desk

As a young child, I’d sit under the stone table at the post office and pretend to be Barbara Walters interviewing somebody while my mother conducted her post office business.