Artist Ruth Hanson will host a watercolor and gouache painting workshop at the Landmark Center this Saturday, Aug. 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A $35 registration fee includes instruction and materials. Only a few spaces remain, call 548-5760 to RSVP.  Writers group with Jan Smith will meet at the Landmark Center on Tuesdays at… Read More

West Central Initiative to host virtual meeting on importance of local newspapers in democracy Editor’s Note: Nick Mathews is a graduate student at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He previously had a two-decade professional journalism career, including time as a senior editor at the Houston Chronicle and time as… Read More

To the Editor, At the last City Council meeting Jane Cook, Co-Director of the ambulance department, read a statement regarding a disturbing meeting she had with Councilman Jim Haberer. In her statement to the City Council last week, Jane said Jim asked for her resignation as a director or she could possibly be terminated. She also… Read More

To the Editor, As we all know, we had to skip a lot of great events due to the COVID pandemic over the last year. One of those events was the EOT Breakfast on the Farm. I am happy to say it is back in 2021, and I hope you will be able to join us…. Read More

I may not remember the name of my junior high home economics teacher from Windom High School, but I am pretty sure she will remember mine.  At one point during my year in home economics, I didn’t know there was a difference between salt and sugar when cooking—I mean both are white right? When someone had… Read More

Rarely a day or a week or a month goes by but what I learn something new. Sometimes it’s not that it’s so really new, or earth-shaking, monumental or whatever. Sometimes it’s just that two and two come together and one gets four. Or kind of. So here’s what I’ve realized in the last bit… Read More

We are in the second week of August and there is a huge buzz happening in our school already. We have teachers who are working hard at getting their classes ready and our custodial staff has worked long and hard on so many projects in our building to get it ready for our new school… Read More

This week’s featured books are all about harvesting.  Our first book “Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden,” written by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson, is a book about the yearly process of gardening, from preparing, planting, gathering the harvest, using the vegetables, and storing the vegetables.   Bird Woman also provides outstanding recipes for making traditional Hidatsa meals and tells… Read More

This Balderdash episode is 15 years old. So you’ve seen it once. Let’s see if it helps you get any more correct this time. It’s the new version of Balderdash. The old Balderdash gave you words—which most people have never heard of—and expected each player to write down the meaning of that word. One player in… Read More

Kids Art Camp at the Landmark Center will now split into individual days throughout the next several months, with the first event being scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 2. This first day of Art Camp will offer “Flood Painting” on canvas. Registration fee of $10 covers all materials and instruction. Please RSVP by calling… Read More