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

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the Farm…All the pairs are home. We moved the last of the herd from Rethwisch Lane home last Monday. We also bought six pregnant cows from the Perham Stockyards at the Monday sale. These cows were 7-9 months along and the auctioneer called them 8 ½ months. I… Read More

By Alice Martin Friends of a Feather When you see a flock of large black birds with “v” shaped wings soaring on the thermals, they are most likely turkey vultures and there must be something dead on the ground. They are nature’s sanitation crew, cleaning up the forests and roadsides bite by bite with their strong, hooked… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: I seem to encounter a fair amount of emergency vehicles running in emergency mode (lights and sirens.) I also can’t help but notice how many people don’t pull over and yield to them. Can you bring some attention to this?   Answer: Great topic for conversation. When an emergency vehicle (such… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver Jokes linking football and religion, especially Christianity, are common. “One gets Americans to sit attentively for hours every Sunday, the other is religion.” “Christian athletes always thank God when they win, never blame Him when they lose.” And of course, “WW(FSDJ)D? – What Would (Football Star Du Jour) Do?” With “Him,”… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the Farm…Corn chopping is done for the year. We had about 40 acres that were cut, chopped and piled in 3 ½ hours. We hired a custom crew from Vergas and they made the three corn fields look like chop suey when they were done.   The plastic cover… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda A long time ago, when I first wanted to be a columnist, who is someone who writes something that someone may or may not find interesting, the Fergus Falls Daily Journal seemed interested. This would be around the early 80s. I sent the editor there some of my first tries at writing…. Read More