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Keeping local pharmacies open

Letters

To the editor: The local pharmacy isn’t just a place to pick up prescriptions—we are a lifeline. I’ve spent years helping patients manage their medications, answering late-night phone calls, and ensuring my community gets the care they need. But independent pharmacies like mine are disappearing, and with them, vital healthcare services. Too many in Minnesota lack easy, safe access to medications. This problem is statewide: 44% of pharmacies in Minnesota have closed in the last ten years, with 58% of those being independent pharmacies. The driving force? Pharmacy benefit ...

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THUMBS UP Time to celebrating Easter weekend Sunday is Easter and that’s reason enough to celebrate. Outside of the religious observations at area churches on Sunday, there are a few Easter events being held on Saturday. Easter egg hunts were scheduled in New Ulm Ulm’s Harman Park; Sleepy Eye’s Allison Park; Fairfax’s St. John’s church grounds and Hanska’s City Park. The forecast for the holiday weekend is a little mixed. Saturday is expected to be partially clouded but with a low chance of rain. The chances of rain on Easter Sunday are higher, but the temperatures are ...

Love wins on Easter

Columns

As I begin this, I just got home from Palm Sunday Mass. It is a beautiful morning: warming sun, light breeze, hints of green. It is a time of beginnings. It is the beginning of Holy Week which will be near it’s end when you read this. Glorious Easter will follow. It is the beginning of the growing season. The tentative plan here is to begin planting this week. It is tentative, like all farming plans. It will take cooperation from the weather, machines, and soil. As they say, God’s plans are sometimes not our plans. It is the beginning of baseball season. I haven’t played ...

More ‘Hands Off’ examples

Letters

To the Editor: The letter to the editor in the New Ulm Journal on April 10, entitled “The Real Hands off Movement” was very well written. Here are some additional examples to add to the list. Hands Off — the unborn and partial-birth children being killed via abortion. Hands off our taxpayer money being used by the Planned Parenthood killing machine. Hands Off — our girls and women being forced to compete against and share bathroom/locker rooms with males, disguised as transgender females. As was so clearly stated by our current administration, “There are only two sexes, ...

The danger of lead poisoning

Columns

In the Fall of 2024, some households were notified that there either may be, or are, lead water pipes supplying water to their homes. The notification is appreciated. The problem is supposed to be fixed in the Spring of 2025. Whether you received a notice or not, understanding the danger that lead represents is beneficial for all of us. A complicating factor in lead poisoning is that you cannot see, taste, or smell the lead to which you are being exposed. There is absolutely no safe level of lead in the blood or the body. Even if lead is in the blood for only a few weeks, during those ...

Earth action day: Unleashing our power for our planet

Columns

April 22nd will mark the fifty-fifth anniversary of Earth Day.  The power of those 20 million voices that came out on the streets that first Earth Day led the U.S. to create the EPA and the first generation of environmental laws addressing clean air, clean water and toxics.   Fast forward to today. Under the banner of, “Our Power. Our Planet”, EARTHDAY.ORG, the global organizer of Earth Day, is calling on people from all walks of life to join in “Earth Action Day” — an effort to once again mobilize people power to tackle the current generation of environmental ...