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Dear Friends, Thanksgiving is one of the few truly American holidays. Originally, a celebration of our blessings and survival as a budding nation of immigrants, it has become a time...

Contrary to popular belief, there is another holiday between Halloween and Christmas. Thanksgiving sometimes gets lost in the preparations for Christmas but is an equally important holiday. Before we get...

City crew does good work removing tree I would like to extend my thanks and give a compliment to the City of Morris crew that came and cleaned up the...

The deer season of 2011 will probably not be one of the most memorable but was decent in many ways. We got a few deer, the weather was wonderful, the...

During my five minutes in the spotlight at a jam-packed breakout panel during the governor's Job Summit last week, I got a little carried away in urging Gov.

I have been hunting for nearly 40 years now and have done so with several different friends and relatives. As a child I hunted with my dad, uncles and cousins...

ST. PAUL - In 2008, Minnesota's voters approved the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Constitutional Amendment also known as the Legacy Amendment. I was in the legislature and witnessed the...

I just finished reading the Fire Prevention Week spread from the Morris newspaper. Congratulations Doug, and all the county fire departments, on another excellent testimony to the support you have...

In 2008, Minnesota's voters approved the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Constitutional Amendment also known as the Legacy Amendment. I was in the legislature and witnessed the debate as the...

This week when I started working on the Years Ago column I was surprised to see that it was fifteen years ago when my son lost his friends in a...

Bachmann statement saddens and upsets Recently on television I heard Michele Bachmann say that if she were elected President of the United States she would build a fence between Texas...

I feel like I might jinx my health by writing about it again but wanted to take a few minutes to thank everyone who has been helping and thinking about...

Even after breaking a hip that still has her laid up, 83-year-old Barbara Lovaasen of Vergas is irrepressibly cheerful. At the physical-therapy center where she spent 18 days following emergency...

If we want a stronger economy tomorrow we need to give our kids a good education today. That was the idea behind No Child Left Behind: to ensure that every...

Dear Editor, Come see how conservation practices that are interwoven in farm planning and practices can be good for the land, the farmer and the pheasants. On Saturday, Oct.