YME baseball defeats RCW

From Staff ReportsLast week, the Yellow Medicine East Boys Varsity Baseball team defeated Renville County West at home 2-1.

Ask a Trooper: Trailer brakes…

Question: I purchased an old trailer to haul my riding lawn mower around, are brakes required on it?Answer: Brakes are required on all trailers with a gross weight of 3,000 pounds or more.

Recipe of the Week

Submitted by Myrna Stolen, MarshallA note from Myrna: No powdered sugar.

Regional fishing outlooks available from Minnesota DNR in preparation for opener

Anglers looking for local fishing information before the Saturday, May 11 fishing opener can check the regional fishing outlooks from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.The outlooks provide details about fishing opportunities and conditions in various areas of the state, including for specific lakes, rivers and streams.Based on reports from across the state, anglers have a lot to look forward to — especially with an early ice out this year and fisheries lake surveys that have showed good year classes of walleye in many lakes, said Brad Parsons, DNR fisheries section manager.“Walleye fishing will be really good and we really hope people can get out and enjoy it early in the season,” Parsons said.

Garrison Keillor & Friends: On the road again, meeting the folks…

I went out West to Idaho and Washington to do my show in Boise (soft s) and Spokane, and was surprised by how vibrant, bustling, handsome both cities are, and walked out onstage and sang Van Morrison’s “These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now” and they seemed to like it okay, so I hummed a note and they sang “America the Beautiful” with me and then we did “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” for the Republicans in the crowd and they sang it full-out, four parts, and then, for contrast, “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” and we were on our way.It’s an age of dread, the news perpetually discouraging, TV and media merchandising ugliness, and either you join the Greek chorus of gloom or you go with the American choir of cheerful resolve, and I choose cheerfulness.