Beyond Reason: Persephone…
In a field of wildflowers, amidst a pleasant breeze, ROB PEREZ finds PERSEPHONE, Queen of the Underworld, seated beneath a blooming crabapple tree, sipping pomegranate juice.
May 2025
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Dahms and Swedzinski encourage area residents to attend town halls
State Senator Gary Dahms (R – Redwood Falls) and State Representative Chris Swedzinski (R – Ghent) invite area residents to attend their joint town hall meetings on Wednesday, May 21 in Tracy, Marshall, Canby, Madison, Dawson, and Granite Falls.
DNR urges people to leave deer fawns alone
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources asks that people avoid disturbing or touching deer fawns, which are born around this time of year.
Minnesota West gears up for a season of celebration: graduation time
As another academic year comes to a close, Minnesota West Community and Technical College is busy preparing to toss some confetti in honor of its graduating class. Set for May, the upcoming ceremonies promise to be more than just a walk across the stage; they’ll be a full-on celebration of achievement and future dreams.
Council approves bid for liquor store improvement project
At Monday evening’s meeting of the Granite Falls City Council, the council reviewed bids for the liquor store remodel project. There were two bids submitted, with the lowest bid being from Hasslen, of Ortonville at a total of $150,000, which was $55,600 lower than the next highest base bid received. The total estimated cost of the project was $116,168. The council voted to accept the bid from Hasslen.
Notes from the Granite Area Arts Council: Little Bits of Fun…
Sometimes, a person gets too excited about the possibilities afforded her by the fairy village moving to a new and much earthier location (the steps leading down to the river next to the Berge Building), spends an otherwise-needed needed afternoon digging out foundations for tiny houses and pressing mosaic tiles into the earth to create paths, and… forgets that her many-page end-of-year professional development report is due sooner than she thinks.
“For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” Psalm 139:13
I was the youngest of five girls and arrived five years after the 4th in the family. Four years prior to me being born, my dad had cancer which caused my arrival to be quite a surprise! Though I never thought I was a “mistake,” I certainly felt that I wasn’t as planned as my sisters. I remember in the late 60s or early 70s at summer Vacation Bible School making a craft project that said, “God Don’t Make No Junk.” I believed it then, and I believe it now.
This Happened Here: A Museum Heist…
[This week’s “here” is a venerable art museum; this week’s author is my Creative Nonfiction Workshop student Darren Almgren-Bersie, who agreed to let me publish this very sweet personal narrative. From this and everything else he’s written about his wife Emma, I’m glad the below shook out the way it did – she sounds like a real keeper. Enjoy! Also, if you have your own happening… please do send it my way at Jessie.rose.hennen (at) gmail.com. – Jessie Hennen]