To the Editor, American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Relay For Life began in 1985 with one man, Dr. Gordy Klatt, a surgeon who wanted to make a difference for cancer patients.  Since 1946, the American Cancer Society has invested $5 billion into research and there are 18 million cancer survivors alive today.  (www.cancer.org) Everyone who participates in the… Read More

By Cedar Walters West Central Initiative Climate Officer Take a quick look around the room. How many plastic objects can you find? Chances are, it’s at least in the dozens. And every single piece of plastic produced, unless it is in the percentage of trash that is incinerated, still exists in some form today. Just like a… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda I suppose it’s because I’ve just finished a grueling couple of months finding proper replacement socks, my old ones finally showing signs of thinness, what with my big toes poking out the ends. Finding proper socks turned out to be very difficult. How difficult, you ask? Well, I’m allergic—or at least my… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver “A Quiet Place: Day One” made a grave miscalculation with its advertising. Scenes were filmed with the intention of putting them in the trailers, but not the movie. This way, when people saw the movie, they wouldn’t be able to properly anticipate the surprises and story progression. To that end, the… Read More

To the Editor, ALL PROPERTY OWNERS BE AWARE: If you own any size real property in Otter Tail County, please be advised that our County Commissioners intend to make changes to the “Subdivision Controls Ordinance of Otter Tail County.” The meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 24, 2024 at 7 pm. in the Commissioners’ Room at the… Read More

Notes from the Farm…Well, I hate to admit when someone else is more right than me, so I must admit defeat in our challenge to bale wet hay. Those two guys at the red and yellow equipment dealership were both right.   We did have someone lined up to wrap the bales so that was the… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The pretty young woman at the library handed me back the book I was checking out. She had affixed a sticky note to it, which said: “DO NOT DESENSITIZE.” Do not desensitize? Being as how I’m a male raised by a female, trained by a Tribe of Girls, cautioned for years about… Read More

Bob’s Movie Review Bob Garver I’m not going to go into a lot of depth about the story in “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” Miami detectives Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are back to have another cop adventure. They do some investigating, clash with superiors, run afoul of bad guys, the bad… Read More

To the Editor,  My Independent petition to qualify for the Seventh District congressional ballot in November was close, but we didn’t make it. I received 924 signatures in the two-week signing period. 1,000 were required. That’s my fault. If I had talked with 100 more people, then we would have. The people who signed and then… Read More

To the Editor,  I want to call attention to something that Democrats passed by shoving it into their last-minute megabus bill—a provision that further erodes at Second Amendment Constitutional Rights: making guns with binary triggers illegal to own, and increasing penalties on straw purchasers. Every year, Democrats take another bite at the apple and continue to… Read More