There's been a lot of seriousness over the last couple weeks here in the Chippewa Valley, so a few moments are needed to look around and take in a few things. So here goes. Thanks to El Niño, we have ...

Goldarn it, it’s August already. I do not know why I am surprised. Time that appeared to stand still when I was a kid now speeds by like Vikings rookie wide receiver Jordan Addison before he was ...

Sunday is Christmas Eve. Our kids and son-in-law hopefully will be home. The holiday, if all goes right, will flow by like Christmases past. Of course things will certainly have changed since my first ...

Two weeks ago, Bruno Rahn, Mike Soden, retired Chippewa Fire District Chief Ron Salter and I made a trip to La Crosse to revisit the past and a friend long departed. John R. Andersen of Lake Hallie is ...

Helen Murphy stood about 5 feet two inches, had flaming red hair and was Irish through and through. Her parents from both sides were Irish and she married an Irishman who shared the same linage. She ...

On Sept. 21, I boarded a plane to take a trip to Omaha, Nebraska. The reality was that I was taking a trip into my past, though I was not born at the time of the events I was celebrating. Two years ...

LAKE HALLIE — I was asked recently if I was going to write about Rep. Kathy Bernier’s walkout from a Breakfast with Your Legislators program in Chippewa Falls. By now there is almost nothing more to ...

On this Easter weekend, it is hard to get serious on a local, state or national topic. So, in celebration of a holiday that has changed faster than any holiday I grew up celebrating, here are a few ...

One of life’s greatest pain in the buttocks is an unwanted upgrade. An unwanted upgrade is a first cousin to “to serve you better we have….” If you have a computer, smart phone or smart watch you may ...

THE ROAD WE HAVE COVERED—John Andersen Udmark — Modern Age ($3.50). Many a U. S. community knows the type: a great reader, self-taught and apt to be considered mildly bughouse; a man whose passionate ...