By Pastor Ryan Stockstrom Harvest Fellowship Church Call it nostalgia, but the other day I was pondering how being in a small town often reflects aspects of God. Take for instance, when you live in a small town; you get to know people, and people get to know you. This can be good and bad, but for… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver This past weekend featured a weird toss-up between two new releases at the domestic box office. Horror thriller “Knock at the Cabin” made slightly more money, with an estimated $14.1 million to its opponent’s $12.5 million, but football comedy “80 for Brady” sold slightly more tickets, with an estimated 1.3 million… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: When it comes to the registration stickers on your license plate, are they called tabs or tags?   Answer: Good question. The Minnesota Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS) refers to them as tabs and/or stickers. I personally call them tabs. Although it does make me think of the ‘90s Aaron Tippin… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The Widow Fistula, in case you’ve forgotten, lives in Boatville. She lives alone, ever since her husband, Pickle Pete, who ran The Gherkin Factory, fell—or jumped, depending upon your view of her personality– into a vat of prime dills and perished. The Widow believes in personal education, and along that line she… Read More

To the Editor, We all want to ensure a dependable energy future for Minnesota. However, the Democrats’ 100 percent carbon-free energy proposal would not help advance this mission, and instead, could severely jeopardize our energy outlook.   Senate File 4, fittingly known as the “Minnesota Blackout Bill,” would mandate our state’s electricity to be from carbon-free sources…. Read More

To the Editor,  The arrogance of MnDOT’s District 4 engineers and their autocratic disdain for the expressed will of the community is reprehensible. Why are they ignoring the controversy over their ill-conceived plan for tree demolition, revealing their own hypocrisy about highway safety? And why did they green-light the chain saws as of Monday, Jan. 23?… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda Over the years, as fate has provided me with many and varied situations in which I had to make a choice between which to do, which to say, which to eat, which to write, I’ve accumulated some information. The information I’ve collected generally involves what someone else has said to me, as… Read More

To the Editor, For 80 or even one hundred years, white pines, oaks, maples, aspen and the Pink Lady Slipper lined the Hwy. 34 roadway between Detroit Lakes and Park Rapids. That road has been widened in a few places and repaved but largely left untouched until this week when MNDOT declared native and even protected… Read More

To the Editor, Earlier this month, the Minnesota Legislature convened for its 93rd Legislative session. Senators were sworn in to represent their districts, Senate rules were decided, and committees began convening. I am honored to have once again been sworn in and to represent the constituents of Senate District 5.  Senate Democrats decided their number one priority would… Read More

By Ryan Stockstrom Harvest Fellowship Church In the book of Hebrews, the author eloquently defines ‘faith’ for us: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.  This is what the ancients were commended for.” (Hebrews 11: 1-2, NIV) He then goes on to talk about some really big… Read More