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The old ballgame

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I enjoy a baseball game. So... ... Take me out to the ballgame...take me out with the crowd... We recently had the opportunity to attend a St. Paul Saints baseball game with two of our sons. It was my first time at the Saints’ ballfield, and it was fantastic. ...buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks, I don't care if I never get back... But I would like to go back to before the game. We wanted to have something to eat before the game, and we ended up at the Lost Fox Restaurant. We ordered our food items. Ours was a shared plate of hummus and crackers which was very tasty. Of ...

A certain futures market

Local Columns

Your opener is coming up soon. I don’t care if you’re a waterfowler, a pheasant hunter or have that coveted firearms deer tag for this autumn, opening day is approaching faster than a set of mallards with cupped wings descending on your decoy setup. Which is why now is the time to prepare ...

Enjoying Toast

Community Voices

My wife, my sister Jane, and I recently got toasted. It had nothing to do with overconsumption of alcohol or being feted at a festive gathering. This toast had to do with bread. Sort of. The music group Bread flooded the AM airwaves with hit tunes during the 1970s. Bread essentially created ...

State candidates visit Marshall

Letters to the Editor

Without leaving southwest Minnesota, I (like any local resident) have had the opportunity to question candidates such as Amy Klobuchar, Peggy Flanagan, or Steve Simon face to face. Last Saturday, Attorney General Keith Ellison, State Auditor candidate Zack Filipovich, Congressional candidate Erik Osberg, and local legislative candidates Nathan Schmig and Andrea Boettger all joined in the Sounds of Summer celebration in Marshall. Keith Ellison, the only incumbent in the group, discussed ways he and his office have been protecting Minnesotans, including more than 340 convictions in ...

Exhibiting at the fair: it offers plenty of rewards

Community Voices

Last week I proved to myself that there can truly be a first time for anything. I decided on the spur of the moment to enter two of my raised bed garden items in the Lyon County Fair. I participated in the salad tomatoes category and in large marigolds. While I was at it I thought I’d enter a cross stitch project, one that features seven small projects arranged in a photo frame with seven compartments. The raised bed and the stitching both required effort. I wanted people who attend the fair to see my results, to know what I accomplished. It was a bonus when I found out last ...

Empty buildings now just ghosts

Community Voices

For 90 years, summers in Sleepy Eye followed the rhythms of the Del Monte factory on the west end of town. Sights, sounds, and smells that everyone knew ebbed and flowed through the pea and sweet corn canning seasons. Now the lot that saw trucks and employees busily crisscrossing sits empty. Weeds grow from the cracks. The conveyors that carried ears of corn into the plant sit quiet, rusting. It’s still weird to drive by, even though it’s been six years since there were piles of sweet corn. Depending which way you go through town, Del Monte is the first or last of three prominent ...