Opinion

Frazzled, ROB rushes into the coffee shop, immediately recognizes FATHER TIME on the opposite side of the café, sitting in a booth. Rob crosses to him quickly and sits.

We all survived last week’s transition to the new systems under CherryRoad. Though I can’t say it wasn’t without a lot of lessons to learn.

It may be a bit early to be offering tips for spring gardening while we are still in the final week of winter. However, like most eager gardeners, even thinking about prepping the soil plants mental seeds that will blossom into action once the weather warms. That’s the key, warming weather, or more precisely - warming and drying soil. Typically the soil is warmed two ways: from above via the air temperature and, of course, a warming sun. However, due to the make-up of our planet. The soil is also heated from below, that heat transferred from its core, up through the mantle and crust. Even in the coldest winter, once one gets below the frozen top soil, deeper layers are often 40-45F.

Sometimes people ask me how I stay ahead of the news. Well, I have many trusted sources but I’ve been reading one publication in particular for longer than all the others. The periodical both informs and entertains. Its prose is simple and clear, but not without style. Their news stories cut to the chase. There is a focus on the natural world. And their puzzles keep me razor sharp. That’s why I still read Highlights magazine.

Spring Break 2022! They say it’s gonna be epic! But is it? Let us consider. Spring Break is a strangely named week in March wherein the schools, the same ones that were hitherto educating our children, for some inexplicable reason, set them free.

Hi to all our community residents. My name is Rhonda Miller and I am the Regional Accounting Manager for the Minnesota newspapers, and a few others, owned by CherryRoad Media.

Welcome to the first week of the new look of the Montevideo-American News! As I’ve been noting in our newspapers for the last couple of months, this week readers will officially be able to see the first of the changes to come under CherryRoad Media’s ownership. Our team’s efforts have been underway for some time to bring this new look together, and I’ve been anxiously awaiting the point of reveal.

We haven’t looked skyward in this column for a while so here are a few interesting tidbits about what’s going on over our heads. First of all, Happy Spring! Meteorological spring, that is.

Last week, I wrote about how this week was going to have a whole new look. If you read that, and saw the front page this week, you're probably thinking "what the heck?" (I said heck, yes, because we're probably mostly Minnesotan here). Well, shortly after last week's paper went to print, it was announced that we would be working with the former company's systems for just one more week. Thus, no new look just yet.

March 8 is International Women’s Day. Don’t ask me how I know this. I just do. So let us speak of Woman, specifically the International Woman. I like her. Very much. In my opinion She deserves much more than a day. But time waits for no man. Or woman, it seems. So… let’s get to it.