The following article was written without research—only my 60+ year-old memory. If any reader has a contradiction or a fact to add, you can text or call me at...

Hey Dad, can you take us to the park? Does anyone want to go camping this weekend at the park? What a beautiful park!  It is so much fun to go to...

Whether on snowy and icy Minnesota roadways or in the water softener in your home, salt use is common in daily life. Two University of Minnesota experts are available to...

Nightwatch, Emergency, Blue Bloods, NCIS, NYPD Blue, Third Watch, Dragnet... We remember these thrilling and “sit at the edge of your seat” television programs and many...

Let’s be blunt here. He isn’t exactly the coolest guy in Otter Tail County, Wayne Stein.  What do you expect? ... He’s a county auditor, for...

When you buy a car, you sign a contract. The same goes for your mortgage, cell phone plan, and car insurance. You receive a service or good in exchange for a promise of...

Many of us have had measles, a fever, and a rash for a few days. But most of us haven’t because vaccines became widely available in the late 60s. In medical school, in the...

Eighteen American Legion Family members from Minnesota traveled to Washington, D.C., this week and heard directly from VA Secretary Doug Collins. He spoke with Legionnaires...

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Read All About It!!Most of us can remember years gone by of reading our favorite newspaper and then noticing that the printer’s...

It seems like we’re living in a topsy-turvy world where up is down and down is up, like an episode from “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” or “The Twilight Zone”-- like the earth...

Physicians depend on real-time, accurate information about current health threats. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is the foundation of our national health defense...

Although the Pelican Rapids High School 2025 Commencement Exercises are still a few months away, some young women and men always walk out the high...

Things are looking up in downtown Pelican Rapids—and it’s not even spring yet.The opening of the Brew Haven coffee shop, just in time for a stretch of cold, sub-zero...

I’ve been reading about the Tariffs because of drugs and all the hoo-ra that goes with it.Everybody is still ducking or ignoring the real problem.It’s simple, At least the...

I enjoyed the article by Rev. Devlyn Brooks (Pelican Press, Faith column, published Jan. 30, on the subject of deportation.) I was reminded that my maternal grandfather...