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I love to fish. My favorite place to fish is on the Missouri River, launching out of the State Park near Pollack, South Dakota. It’s easy to feel the presence of the Great Creator on that beautiful expanse of water. Floating along on the river is relaxing. Well, normally it’s relaxing, as long as the wind doesn’t come up and you end of fighting rolling waves bigger than your boat to get back to shore. Or you don’t see a rattle snake swimming toward you trying to get in your boat. Normally, it is relaxing, even if the fish aren’t biting, the river is a beautiful place to be.

Montevideo visual artist, M E Fuller, will exhibit new works at the K. K. Berge Gallery in Granite Falls, MN. The exhibit, Original Forms, is a collection of abstract expressionist landscapes and other inspirations. The exhibit is open to the public from May 9th through June 18th.

When I was growing up in the early 1980s, we had a weekly newspaper in our town. There was a woman assigned to cover our little neighborhood. I remember her calling each week to ask my mother what was new in our family. Did Jeremy make the honor roll this quarter? Had we gone on vacation recently? Did we get a new pet? She would take this information from anyone in the neighborhood who was willing to share it and would write a column each week. When the paper came out on Wednesdays, my mother was always excited to read what was going on in the neighborhood. Everyone on our street knew each other. We played outside with the kids every day until dusk. My parents were in a bowling league with our neighbors. We had a block party in the street in the summer. When a new family moved in everyone welcomed them and introduced themselves. I guess you could say it was a great community.

Two teams of 5th and 6th-grade students from Yellow Medicine East Schools participated in the regional Math Masters Challenge at SMSU on April 21, 2022. The Math Masters team’s coach is Elaine Halverson, YME TAG Coordinator. The students competed individually and as teams on eight sets of mathematical problems in this competition.

Minnesota photographer Doug Ohman was at the Minnesota’s Machinery Museum annual meeting to provide a presentation titled “The New Deal”. The presentation was of interest, as the school building that now houses the museum was originally constructed as a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects.

Ruth Jahn is retiring this week from F&M Bank in Clarkfield after twenty-two years with the company. Jahn, an insurance agent and bank receptionist.

Hello to everyone in the community! I am Samantha Godfrey and I am one of the Sales Reps for the Minnesota newspapers now owned by CherryRoad Media. I am mainly located in Montevideo, MN, but I cover Crookston, Granite Falls, Cottonwood, Redwood Falls, and Sleepy Eye.

Shi-Quan Nettingham spent his first winter in Minnesota after moving from Las Vegas a little over a year ago running the frigid prairie to train for his longtime goal of running in the Boston Marathon. Nettingham, the Sports Director at KDMA, has been running for nearly 13 years, starting out with track and cross country in high school. It wasn’t his intention, originally, to become so involved in running, as at the time, basketball was his preferred sport. He says he used running as a way to stay in shape in the off-season, but soon discovered a love for the sport. “I kind of just fell in love with it. It’s a healthy lifestyle, and really something that became kind of an addiction,” he says. When he started running, Nettingham says he thought he would be a sprinter. “I never even imagined I was going to be a distance runner, and then my coach said I think we should try, and that’s how I was introduced to it. She persuaded me to do cross country and that’s when I really fell in love with it. It was like I’m not just running in a circle around the track. In cross country, you’re running on different terrain, and you have a purpose – to run somewhere. I was hooked,” he says.