Opinion
Off the Editor’s Desk – 12-30-2020
Hope for a better year! Do we all make a New Year’s resolutions for our loved ones and ourselves? Well I do. And as bad as 2020 was for my family and me, I am hoping that 2021 will be a great year for us all. I would like to predict that the Coronavirus will…
Read MoreLTE – Dunn County Board of Supervisors – 12-23-2020
December 14, 2020 Dear Fellow Citizens of Dunn County, WI: For the past nine months, the Dunn County Health Department has been issuing guidance to keep residents and our communities safe from the COVID-19 pandemic. Many followed those guidelines and for that we thank you. Some did not, and we are now seeing the frightening…
Read MoreLTE – Brian Tuschl Sr. – 12-23-2020
Falling Numbers in School Sports I would like to address some issues I have observed in school sports, the number of kids staying involved in sports is declining, for what reason? If I had to guess I would say maybe a lack of playing time? The kids who are working their butts off in practice,…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 12-23-2020
Merry Christmas It’s that time of year again that we celebrate the birth of Christ. I wish all of you a happy and joyful time of year. I would ask everyone to put aside your political feelings and pass friendship, best wishes and the love of country and family and neighbors into the next year.…
Read MoreLTE – Dunn County Board of Supervisors – 12-14-2020
December 14, 2020 Dear Fellow Citizens of Dunn County, WI: For the past nine months, the Dunn County Health Department has been issuing guidance to keep residents and our communities safe from the COVID-19 pandemic. Many followed those guidelines and for that we thank you. Some did not, and we are now seeing the frightening…
Read MoreLTE – Glenwood City Area Chamber of Commerce – 12-16-2020
To Glenwood City Community and Businesses: After much discussion at our November 11, 2020 meeting, the 2020 Glenwood City Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Board has decided to go on a 12-month hold of operations. Unless someone steps forward to help pick up operations, the Chamber of Commerce will dissolve on November 11, 2021. The…
Read MoreLTE – Terry Nichols – 12-16-2020
Letter to the editor- Referenda pandemic The current pandemic of the Coronavirus seems to be the topic of intense discussion and it seems we are stumbling through this pandemic as we learn more on how to fight this virus and all the ripple effects it is causing in our society. At the state level, it…
Read MoreOff The Publisher’s Desk – 12-16-2020
On the Lighter Side! Quotes from famous people Bob Hope once said that he grew up in a family with six brothers. “I learned how to dance waiting in line for the bathroom.” “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” ~George Carlin “Smartness runs in…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 12-9-2020
The new space force! I don’t know how many people are aware that we added a new branch to our military called the Space Force. It was founded last December and is the eighth United States uniformed services. As I was reading an opinion piece in the Sunday St. Paul Pioneer Press of November 29th…
Read MoreLTE – Jean Kussrow-Larson – 12-2-2020
To My Fellow Americans: Please return to 1942-45 with me. Most of you readers weren’t yet born; I was four years old. At that time, my parents had moved my two older brothers and me from our farm near Downing, Wisconsin, to the “huge” city of Rock Island, Illinois. My father, a farmer and a…
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