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05/26/2026
Written for my farmer years ago. May it now be in honor of yours. Roots grow deep as the heart of the farmer lingers deeper still.
Earth trodden soil layered in animal waste finds footing for the farmer. Knee high boots are rubber stamped with the proof of—as there is no time like the present to...
05/26/2026
Ran into Doc down at The Mule Barn the other day, so naturally we had to rid the world of about a gallon of coffee and solve the world’s problems for an hour. It is the duty of all true Americans of our age, you know.
Doc said he’d been aching a little bit lately. Joints or something. He’d...
05/23/2026
Students named to the Dean's List include the following:
HOMETOWN, STATE; NAME, MAJOR
Brooks, Keira Ann Morinville, Accounting B SClearbrook, Alex Churness, Business-Undeclared Pre-MajorGoodridge, Ava Jean Halvorson, Marketing B S Carter Lee Tilla Johnsrud, Animal Science B SGrygla, Lakylie...
05/23/2026
McIntosh Public Library Schedules "Reading is Timeless" Summer Events
MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA - This June, the McIntosh Public Library is inviting young readers to step into a literary time machine with Lake Agassiz Regional Library's "Reading is Timeless" Summer Reading Program, including a packed...
05/21/2026
The 2026 legislative session is over, and I want to give you an overview of where things stand.
This wasn’t a year where Republicans controlled the Capitol. Just like last year, we held one half of the Minnesota House. Democrats held the other half, the Senate, and the Governor’s Office. That meant...
05/21/2026
Let’s talk crops! session talks economics of preemergence herbicid
St. Paul, MN. (5/18/2026)— On May 13, 2026, Thomas Peters, UMN Extension sugar beet agronomist and UMN Extension IPM educator Eric Yu joined UMN Extension crops educator Angie Peltier for a discussion about the economics of...
05/21/2026
MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA - Travel through time with reading at your library this summer! Lake Agassiz Regional Library is bringing a time travel-themed Summer Reading Program to youth and teens in communities in Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Mahnomen, Norman, Polk, and Wilkin counties. Beginning June 1,...
05/21/2026
Senior Health and Fitness Day.
In the United States, life expectancy in 2000 was about 76.8 years. Estimated life expectancy in 2025 is about 79–80 years. This shows that average life expectancy in the United States has increased by about three years since 2000, despite temporary declines during...
05/20/2026
A poem about Decoration Day:
"Where Memory Wakes"
Today we call it Memorial Day, but the holiday began as Decoration Day, an occasion to honor Civil War dead.
By Brad Trom
The morning softens into May,
Beneath a quiet, shifting sky,
We gather on Decoration Day,
To watch the faded banners fly.
With...
05/19/2026
Statement from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on the Flanders Fire
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has located the origin of the Flanders Fire near the north shore of Flanders Lake. The fire began Saturday, May 16, and has burned about 1,600 acres in Crow Wing County....
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