Shop local this holiday season with unique holiday offerings

Editor’s Note: Each week in November through December, the newspaper will be featuring area businesses to support shopping local this holiday season, as well as some creative gift-giving ideas that support local organizations and businesses.

Kilowatt Community Center News

Healthy Tip of the Week: Stop eating when you are full. Ok, this tip probably seems pretty obvious, but during the holiday season it seems most people eat until they are stuffed to the brim.

A Regenerative Future?

It was 1997 that North Dakota rancher Gabe Brown attended a livestock profit seminar. He had just lost his crop due to natural causes for a third year in a row, and was wondering how he was going to keep his farm.

Phyllis Stavne

 Phyllis Stavne, 81, of Granite Falls died Tuesday, November 22, 2022, at…

Donald Miller

 The funeral service for Donald Miller, 79, of Wood Lake will be…

From the Editor’s Desk

Last week, I traveled to western Upstate New York to attend my son’s military promotion ceremony. With short notice, I was left with some pretty undesirable flights, but after an eight hour adventure of plane changes and layovers, I made it.

Veterans Day program features WWII Navy Ace Donald M McPherson

Last Friday, a Veterans Day Program was held at the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum. YME Superintendent Rich Schneider gave the welcome, and the guest speaker was Donald M McPherson, World War II Navy Ace, the YME band and choir performed and the Advancement of the Colors was done by Boy Scout Troop #269, American Legion Post 204 (Echo), and Anderson-Bestland Post 127 (Hanley Falls). Taps was performed by Aiden Martin, and student essays were read by Kindal Meyer and Delaney Myers. After the program, a reception line was formed for guests to greet Veterans, and McPherson signed copies of his recently published book for sale in the museum’s gift shop.

Shop local this holiday season with unique holiday offerings

Editor’s Note: Each week in November, the newspaper will be featuring area businesses to support shopping local this holiday season, as well as some creative gift-giving ideas that support local organizations and businesses.

Beyond Reason

The thing about fall is that it’s not winter. Winter is winter. Winter comes right after fall. Fall is, try to stay with me here, directly after summer. The season of fall is named after a guy who first noticed the temperature dropping and, for some reason, coincidentally, was always dropping stuff. And, in another pretty big coincidence, his name was Fall.