February 2025

Garrison Keillor & Friends: An account of what I’ve been up to…

I’ve just finished a ten-day solo tour down South as the World’s Oldest Stand-Up and it was a major adventure for an old guy with memory issues who keeps forgetting the word “cognitive” and other words of a similar sort, walking onstage every night to do ninety minutes or more freestyle in front of a big crowd, most of whom probably voted the wrong way last November, and make them laugh a lot.

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Strategic Farming: Let’s talk crops! focused on navigating the corn maize

Navigating the corn maize of input costs, marketing plans and resources is challenging. Start with hybrid selection, encourages Dr. Jeff Coulter, University of Minnesota Extension corn agronomist. Find hybrid trial data from many sources that are tested in conditions like yours. Focus on the top 20% of performers. If performance is consistent, it’s likely those hybrids will perform well next year, too.

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Department of Public Transformation and The YES! House welcome the 2025 River Valley RippleArtists-in-Residence

Department of Public Transformation (DoPT) and The YES! House, a project of DoPT, are excited to announce the second round of River Valley Ripple Artists-in-Residence! Four artists from Southwest Minnesota have been selected by a committee of local residents through an application process.

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From the Editor’s Desk

I’ve heard a lot about the owl “irruption” in Northern Minnesota and so on my recent trip to “up north”, I was excited at the prospect of seeing the owls that live in the boreal forest in Canada visiting Minnesota.

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