Avera announces new president and CEO

James “Jim” Dover, FACHE, a seasoned health care executive with more than 30 years of experience serving in leadership positions across a wide array of hospital and health systems, has been named the next President and Chief Executive Officer of Avera Health, one of the largest not-for-profit rural health care systems in the Midwest.

Avera announces new president and CEO

James “Jim” Dover, FACHE, a seasoned health care executive with more than 30 years of experience serving in leadership positions across a wide array of hospital and health systems, has been named the next President and Chief Executive Officer of Avera Health, one of the largest not-for-profit rural health care systems in the Midwest.

Pickleball group draws more players to teams

Since summer of 2022, community members from around the Cottonwood, Clarkfield, Boyd, and Granite Falls areas have been gathering in Granite Falls to form two pickleball teams.

Emergency preparedness for older adults

September is National Emergency Preparedness Month and this year, our focus is ensuring that older adults are prepared if a disaster were to happen.

Garrison Keillor & Friends: Sing on, dance on, good eye, ain’t you happy

A good week is a good week; let smarter people deal with the debt ceiling crisis and popularity of authoritarianism, my week began with a happy Sunday in church with a lot of blessing going on — sprinkling the schoolkids, the choir, the congregation — and our rector looking joyful as she marched around casting holy water on people — I thought she might like to use a squirt gun or a watering can or the sprinklers in the ceiling.

The Lowe Down: You do you…

Life is difficult enough without comparing our lives to anyone else’s existence and I wonder if social media is damaging the self esteem of not only our young people, but people of all ages.

Recipe of the Week

Submitted by Myrna Stolen, MarshallA note from Myrna: Simple and good.Butterscotch or chocolate pudding an be used instead of vanilla pudding.