The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda As quite a few of you know, I read a lot. Don’t care what. Might be Chinese history; might be the history of British politics. Or about what’s really, really inside an atom’s nucleus.  If it pops up in front of me, I read it. As I’ve consumed various kinds of fiction–novels,… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: Is it legal for farmers to load hay on a state highway? Our neighbor bales several miles of state highway ditches.  To load the round bales he drives down the highway with a pickup and bale wagon.  His son is in the ditch with a tractor and loader.  The son… Read More

By Bev Johnson Master Gardener Petunia was complaining to Bunkey about how boring the flowerbeds were looking.  The mums hadn’t started blooming, the phlox were done, some of the lilies hadn’t had their spent blooms cut off and the only thing showing much color were the annuals scattered here and there. She was right, he decided, it… Read More

Library Happenings Henning School The beauty of the leaves on the many wonderful trees we have in Minnesota.  How great it is that we can see so many different colors of leaves.   We have a great book here in the library that is titled “Trees of Minnesota Field Guide” by Stan Tekiela. The following information… Read More

Library Happenings Henning School This week we are featuring the book “School Spirit” written by Johanna Hurwitz.   The book jacket reads, “Will the Edison-Armstrong School close-forever?  Julio Sanchez, president of his fifth-grade class, can’t believe the school board would consider such a measure, but they are. They see the building as old and costly; Julio… Read More

To the Editor, It has been an honor and privilege to serve on the Henning School Board for the last 14 years.  We, the Henning School Board, have been committed to ensuring that the Henning School offers a quality education, maintains a safe and comfortable facility and fairly compensates the faculty and staff while being frugal… Read More

Henning Happenings Chad Koenen A new scoreboard was officially dedicated on Friday night at Don Seipkes Field in Henning. The scoreboard is not only a great addition to a football field, but is another wonderful enhancement that we have seen in our community and school in recent years. In addition to the new football scoreboard,… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda It has been one hundred years since a young Swiss patent clerk named Albert Einstein turned the world upside down with his preposterous ideas. His third paper is the one we’re all somewhat familiar with, the theory of relativity. Pretend you’re sitting in a saddle affixed to a light beam tearing… Read More

Plan for the future when planting a new shrub By Bev Johnson Master Gardener The last edition of the Northern Gardener magazine had a list of uncommon shrubs for zone 3. If your estate needs a bit of a tune up, perhaps you should look into one of these. Aronia or black chokeberry is a 6X6… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: A friend recently told me that it’s illegal to honk your car horn in Minnesota (he showed me an internet article).  I find this hard to believe.   So many friends and family members drive by our house, giving their horn a little honk and waving; is this illegal?   What if… Read More