Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver A popular criticism I’ve heard about “The Smashing Machine” is that it tries too hard to subvert expectations. I assume that this is a reference to the way the film follows mixed martial artist Mark Kerr (Dwayne Johnson) on his journey not to a major win, but to his first professional… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the Chief…By the time you read this, the Minnesota Youth Deer Hunt will be a day or two away. Thursday, Oct. 16 through Sunday, Oct. 19 are the dates this year, funny how they seem to fall on MEA every year.   We had our fall class for youth… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda (Upon request, I’m rerunning this.) My sister and her husband bought land on the outskirts of Flagstaff, where it was so deserted that the first street—dirt road, really—was named after my sister. When someone purchased the five acres beside theirs, and parked some cars over on my sister and her husband’s property, it… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Can you explain what the lines on the highways and streets indicate? I feel like a lot of people can’t figure it out. Thanks.   Answer: I sure can. Pavement markings direct and regulate traffic.   White lines separate lanes of traffic traveling in the same direction. • White dashes: You can change lanes… Read More

By Pastor Ryan Stockstrom Harvest Church Every so often, a book of the Bible feels like it was written directly into the headlines of our time. Paul’s letter to the Colossians is one of those. Penned from a Roman prison cell around A.D. 62, this letter overflows with hope through difficult times.  Imagine that—words written in… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the Farm…They say that a bull is half your cow herd. That is true providing he can service the females that are with him in the pasture. Over the course of the summer there are several concerns that can affect the fertility and conception rate of the herd.  … Read More

Dean Ridings America’s Newspapers Strong communities don’t just happen. They rely on connection—residents knowing what’s going on, businesses reaching the customers who keep them open, and citizens having the facts to make good decisions. Local newspapers provide that connection in ways no other source can. In today’s fractured media environment, trust is the rarest commodity. Confidence… Read More

Many adults can likely recall mornings during their childhood when newspapers were tossed into the driveways of many homes throughout their neighborhoods. Some adults might even have delivered papers from their bicycles each morning.  Such scenes may now be a relic of the past, thanks in large part to wide reliance on the Internet as a… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is known as a top-tier talent without top-tier recognition. None of his movies have made more than $50 million at the domestic box office, and despite 11 nominations, he’s never won himself an Academy Award (a combined three Oscar wins have come from his films, including Daniel… Read More

By Pastor Ryan Stockstrom Harvest Church At our church, we are launching into a study of Paul’s letter to the Colossians—a short book with only four chapters, but with some really great and deep theology. Paul’s central theme is this: Jesus reigns supreme.  If that is true—and Paul argues that it is—then it changes everything. Paul writes Colossians while… Read More