Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: I read your last article about road construction and work zones. Can you talk about the zipper merge? It seems like a lot of people don’t know what it is or can’t figure it out. Thank you.   Answer: The “Late Merge – Zipper Merge” is a driving strategy that requires… Read More

By Pastor Ryan Stockstrom Harvest Church With the arrival of spring, signs of life are everywhere. The grass turns green, flowers begin to bloom, and trees start to bud. Is the same true for those who believe in Christ? There’s a popular meme online that says, “You won’t know that I’ve won the lottery, but there will be… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver “The Accountant” was a midsized hit from 2016 that until recently had a reputation as a wannabe franchise-starter that never got a follow-up. I watched the first movie for research last weekend, and I would have guessed that the reason the film went so long without a sequel was that the… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the Farm…48 calves on the ground as of press time. We should be over 70% calving in the first three weeks of the season. Hopefully, the majority will be in the next three-week cycle and there will always be a couple of stragglers that may be a month… Read More

By Marsha Erickson West Central Initiative Early Childhood Specialist As my family prepares to celebrate our youngest child’s high school graduation, I’ve found myself looking back with deep gratitude. The years of school, activities, and growing pains have shaped our children into who they are—but their journey didn’t begin in a classroom or on a sports field––it began… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda As you know, I made a large part of my livelihood servicing home appliances, and there came a day, after puzzling over what was wrong with various washing machines, dryers, water heaters, furnaces, and so forth for many years, I realized that they were communicating with me. I was surprised, let me… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the Farm…Survey says…33 calves on the ground, up from 16 last week.  Last Thursday we had four calves in one day, the record is six I believe and that has happened a couple times over the years.   We are just over 51 percent calving done 11 days into… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The GossipBox Café, on these dragged-out miserable and muddy days between winter and summer, packs the coffee crowd in at ten and two. Let’s listen in on these coffee-cup ten o’clock farmers: “Who’s buying coffee?” “If’n the sun don’t come out today, I’m calling the auctioneer and puttin’ the whole shebang on the block.”… Read More

Just a few months into the second term and already chaos reigns supreme. While the Oligarchs play around with the very basic tools of our democracy, millions of our people, Republicans and Democrats alike plus the unaffiliated, are facing an unknown future financially, medically, and basic living necessities like safe food, safe water, safe living… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The arrival in the mail of the large white envelopes filled with the pretty blue papers marked “important property tax information enclosed” is not the highlight of anyone’s day. It’s not even the best of a worst day.  This eighty acres on which I live went up in value $100,000.00. That’s just… Read More