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Not too long ago, a couple folks from a marketing firm sat down in a circle with folks from Morris and asked us about our town - what makes it...

I hate when the weather is its own punch line. Honestly, the jokes just wrote themselves this week. On Monday, I applied three layers of sunscreen, wore an ill-fitting hat...

Anyone who thinks that the hometown newspaper no longer matters should sit in my office on a Monday morning when something didn't get into Saturday's edition. I'm not complaining. I'd...

My alarm clock went off at 5 a.m. Friday and for once, I didn't hit snooze. First off, it was the buzzer, not the radio, since the local AM station...

Perhaps its a sign of age, perhaps its an occupational hazard, but I had a bad case of "why bother" when it came to the Harlem Globetrotters appearing in Morris...

A week ago, I was in Washington, D.C. It was a great trip, as the daffodils and violets were blooming and I had crab cakes at least once a day...

It is something of a ritual every holiday season for local newspapers and Chambers of Commerce to remind folks to Shop Local. You know the mantra -- when you shop...

If you have an e-mail account, you have received some sort of bizarre request, be it for your bank number so that a wealthy Nigerian businessman, who has a terminal...

Wow, where did the time go? Here it is, almost Christmas Eve and I'm wondering if I can save time by using leftover Halloween Candy in the kids' stockings. I...

OK, I'll admit it, I've actually said, "Bah, humbug!" at least twice since Thanksgiving. The weather has put me in something of an anti-winter funk. My desk has been covered...

Earlier this year, I was at a funeral in a small church near DeGraff, listening to a distant relative I had never met eulogize an uncle who had lived an...

There's a party going on next weekend and you should really plan to attend. The University of Minnesota, Morris is celebrating Founders Weekend Sept. 25-26. This year marks UMM's 50th...

And so, here we are, on the verge of the Stevens County Fair. Surely, I can't be the only who was surprised to wake up last week and discover it...

A woman stopped by the office earlier this week to renew her subscription.

Holy cow! OK, pardon the pun, but this truly seems like the only appropriate response following Thursday's open house at West River Dairy. I didn't know what to expect before...