Letters To The Editor
TO THE EDITOR: Money could be had if some entrepreneur would market the blown down trees around us. Scores of them are in both private woods and the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge, especially just south of C...
Editorials
Polar Bare
As this episode of “The Polar Vortex vs. Humanity” seems to be coming to an end, I must confess to being just a bit bemused by the week-long panic I saw on the faces of area weathercasters. There is no doubt b...
Air Pebble Creek Finances, Completely
Pebble Creek Golf Course opened to the public in 1989 with a lot of hoopla. It was designed to be the finest golf course in the region - and it has served in that regard since. But in past years, there has been ...
That Same Old Lang Syne
Here’s to hoping 2014 is a way better year than 2013. One of my favorite songs this time of year is “Same Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg. It’s a song about Fogelberg meeting up with a lover from his past with a...
Glendorado Woman's Brush With Portraiture
I'm impressed by people who have artistic ability. (I find drawing stick people challenging). When I worked as a cashier for Virgil Gilyard at the Country Store/gas station in Santiago from 1985-1993, I got to k...
“O Tannenbaum!”
As always on the day after Thanksgiving, it appeared that every other car and truck passing through the Becker area had a Christmas tree bagged and tagged on the roof, as people from far and wide visited their f...
Letters To The Editor
TO THE EDITOR: - Enlighten me, please. Doesn’t the golf course rely on city subsidies? Hasn’t the question been raised: Can Becker afford the golf course? Shouldn’t the mayor do everything possible to get i...
The Iniquity For All Time, The Acropolis, In Athens.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the third and concluding story in a series on Turkey and Greece, visited by Editor Gary W. Meyer with Inland Press Association in September.) Turkey and Greece have had mud huts ...
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