Dear Annie: I am 60 years old and the mother of five grown children. I raised them mostly on my own after my divorce, and those years were not easy. There were slammed doors, late nights waiting up and more than a few tearful arguments. My daughters, especially during their teenage years, could ...

My wife and I recently took a business trip to St. Cloud. She suggested that we leave early so that we could go antiquing. I learned long ago that “antiquing” is a code word for “shopping.” I used to think that “antiquing” meant making something new appear to be old. This is the ...

NEW ULM — The New Ulm Film Society will taken a closer looks at the works of director Steven Spielberg with a screening of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” The screening will begin 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov 4 at the New Ulm Public Library. This is the first film in the film society’s ...

I spend an ungodly amount of time in a tractor cab during the fall. Outside of sleeping, eating at odd intervals, and doing maintenance, my life is lived in a cab. The tractor radio is my steady companion. Every spring and fall, I spend a lot more time listening to the radio than Pam. The ...

I noticed this week that Marshall’s Adult Community Center sponsored a presentation about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It involved a tense two weeks when the world came close to nuclear war. The missile crisis was a major event in a much longer situation known as the Cold War, which ...

As October wanes and the veil between worlds feels thinner, it’s worth revisiting the man who gave American literature its first true detective — and its most haunting shadows. Edgar Allan Poe, often remembered for his tales of terror, also pioneered the detective story with “The ...