There aren’t many current and former U-2 spy plane pilots in the world, but I recently had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with one of them. Stan Rauch, who turns 80 this month, grew up at Lake Preston, South Dakota. He and his wife, Mary, live on an acreage in the Lake Whitewood, South ...
We have been learning about Minneota’s Royal Hettling, who grew up on the family farm and graduated from Minneota High School in 1969. He enlisted in the Air Force and trained as a Security Police dog handler at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, before deploying to Vietnam in August 1970. Royal ...
It’s almost the eve of Election 2024, and we’ve had a lot of campaign related issues ranging from financing to negative advertisements. Elon Musk really brought campaign finance questions to the forefront with his $75 million donation to the Trump campaign. It was followed by an offer to ...
After a good construction season due in part to late season dry weather conditions, the city of Marshall is closing out most projects, while some have gotten underway. This past summer, the city completed the reconstruction of two parking lots: Addison Parking Lot and the Independence Back ...
Cresting the western edge of a recently-added favorite section of public access land on my phone’s hunting app, the private acreage to the south came easily into view. It was noticeable this particular morning not due to the yellow border signs or the old fenceline that separated my hunting ...
It’s so easy to not do something, isn’t it? We create numerous excuses and reasons to delay or pause that thing — that’s something we are all good at doing. Maybe that delaying tactic is found within our personalities, our habits or our humanoid genes. No matter the root of that ...