17th annual Community Health Challenge teams announced

A big thank you to all our sponsors for making this possible:Granite Falls Lions, Project Turnabout, Big Stone Therapies, FM Bank, Fagen, Inc., Avera Medical Group Granite Falls, Citizens Alliance Bank, and the Granite Falls Kiwanis.2024 teams are:1.

Garrison Keillor & Friends: The winter blues has got me bad, Mama…

Winter can hit a person hard and when we drop down to zero and below and the wind is out of the north, I walk the deserted streets, no sign of civilization, just blinking red lights, and come home and see in the window the reflection of a wreck of a man, and I think, “Nobody knows you when it’s ten below.

The Lowe Down: Believing in fairy tales…

There is a detective story by Lemony Snicket called, “Who Could That Be at This Hour?” and in the book is a character called Dashiell Qwerty who is quoted as saying, “They say in every library there is a book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.” My immediate thought, “But what if that book is banned from your library?” Americans should be trusted to make their own decisions about what they and their children read.

Recipe of the Week

Submitted by Myrna Stolen, MarshallA note from Myrna: Used by cooks for toppings on cake or pudding before Cool Whip.