Donation for Harvey’s Windmills to Mr. and Mrs. Austin Bachmann. To Jace Henniger of Bay Window Crafts for quilting. Congratulations to Lee Follingstand of Barnesville, winner of the basketball quilt. A special thank you to all who bought tickets and helped raise over $800 for Frazee-Vergas Basketball Boosters.  Deb Herbst

To the Editor, I have been with the Minnesota Department of Transportation for 23 years and have had the good fortune to raise my family here in Detroit Lakes. During my career, I have been a part of many great area projects. At times, transportation projects require difficult and challenging decisions, but our primary goal is… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question:  Last week there was an auto accident that left one adult and three children dead.  There were no seat belts or child restraints used.  Who can be held responsible in this crash?   Answer: If there is a crash, the driver is ultimately responsible for the safety of everyone in the… Read More

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