The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda “It seems to me,” said Trugood the Kitchen Table to me just now, “that you could find time in your retirement to pay some attention to me.” (Yes. I know. A talking kitchen table. It was bad enough that all the appliances could speak, but now this.  You  can see the problem,… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: I thought I heard about 911 being able to find accurate locations even when people don’t know exactly where they are. Can you talk about that? Answer: Yes, we shared some information on this very subject on our Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s blog just recently. I will share the article. “As… Read More

Keep garlic and vinegar for a salad, do not use them for weeds in a garden By Bev Johnson Master Gardener In 2006, the University Of Minnesota decided to test organic weed killers against Round Up and Finale. They laid out 2×2 foot squares of lawn grass that had a few dandelions here and there. The area… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the farm…Last Sunday, we vaccinated the cows to protect the calves from scours in the spring. What is scours? Plain and simple, scours is diarrhea. The cattle industry has routinely used the term scours to refer to diarrhea in young animals for as long as anyone can remember…. Read More

To the Editor, I have come to realize I am wasting my time talking to Becker County Commissioners Nelson, Jepson and Meyer. They have an agenda. Nelson wants power back, Jepson is fulfilling her promise to the union employee’s, and Meyer is a puppet. I want to thank Jim Vareberg for his honesty and hard work as… Read More

To the Editor, Mr. Williams’s headline for his recent editorial states, “Leave the business of the newspaper to the newspaper.” The City of Frazee police department and crime report are business of the City of Frazee, not the Frazee-Vergas Forum. “What right do these two city council members have to censor the police chief in the… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective Chad Koenen Last week our family took a long-awaited trip to Florida. We had been planning the trip for quite some time as a way to break up winter, and wouldn’t you know, the year we plan a winter getaway has been one of the nicest winters we have seen in Minnesota in… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver As much as I enjoyed the fun, exciting trailers for “Argylle” that made excellent use of the film’s eclectic cast, there was one element that told me the movie was in serious trouble. Amongst shots of the cat belonging to spy novelist Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard), onscreen text insisted that,… Read More

By Dick Dretsch Special to the Forum Rev. Martin Luther King once said “The time is always right to do the right thing.” February is Black History Month and so is this the birthday month of a past resident of Frazee: Betty (Iten) Dretsch who died at 97 would have been 101 years old this year.  She, like many… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the farm…Weighing the calves last Sunday went very well. Aside from having to run the calves in circles 4-5 times to get them into the feed bunk, they cooperated.   We move them into a different feed bunk closer to the chute and corral versus the feed bunk we… Read More