Hunters can apply through Friday, Aug. 15, to be chosen for one of 125 permits for the 2025 Minnesota prairie chicken hunting season. The nine-day prairie chicken season begins Saturday, Sept. 27, and is open to Minnesota residents only. The hunt takes place in northwestern Minnesota from St. Hilaire south to Breckenridge.
Hunters can now review the 2025 Minnesota deer hunting regulations, and deer hunting licenses are now available to purchase.
The Yellow Medicine East (YME) School District hosted a public informational meeting to address community questions last week ahead of the upcoming school facilities referendum vote. Superintendent Rich Schneider, along with municipal advisor Michael Hart and construction manager Preston Euerle, president of R.A. Morton Construction Managers, explained planning, financing and construction details associated with the proposed $74.4 million dollar project.
A week ago I sat softly petting our cat, Tommy. Two days earlier, he seemed completely normal as he vaulted to his favorite sleeping place on top of our dining room hutch. But now, something was definitely wrong. Tommy laid very still – he wouldn’t lift his head, he hadn’t eaten or drank anything for two days and he was very lethargic. I sat “chairside” and slowly petted him – but he didn’t purr or respond. After a trip to his regular vet and two trips to the ER vet, we just couldn’t figure out what was the matter.
I make a lot of jokes here at Beyond Reason. Some are at the expense of the game of pickleball. Some are the expense of the pickleball players. While I do try to make other jokes about other topics—bugs, potato salad, and, of course, gourds—heretofore, I’ve never attempted a single joke about the Dewey Decimal System.
Question: I see a lot of motorists pulling campers and trailers that don’t have experience or simply don’t know what they are doing. I see some crashes that I suspect are due to this. Can you talk about pulling campers and trailers?
Sometimes it seems heaviness just keeps piling up. I’ve felt it lately: relentless heat, shocking headlines of young lives cut short, quiet goodbyes to older loved ones, as well as devastating images of flooding fields, rivers, and homes. Through social media, I’ve seen corn fields perfect one minute, and totally destroyed by rain and wind the next. In these moments, we are powerfully reminded of the biblical truth: as God “sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45), so too does hardship, storms, and trials touch every life without discrimination. Flooding, car accidents, or heart disease don’t happen to people because they are bad or evil; these things just happen in this earthly life.
“Hello,” says a kid, startling me. She’s appeared on the back patio of the Bluenose Gopher; since I’m sitting down and she’s standing, her large eyes are roughly at the level of my own. Her gaze is very confident in the bright summer sun.
With the help of multiple guest writers (see below) and whimsical stranger children (see “This Happened Here”), this week’s columns basically wrote themselves -- a late-summer miracle. For more about August’s numerous artistic happenings, check out the below.
Crews will be fog sealing paved shoulders along Highway 212 from Granite Falls to Danube this week, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Fog sealing is done to preserve and extend the life of asphalt pavement. A thin layer of oil is sprayed on the roadway, which fills small holes and seals minor cracks.