Just a thought - Eli Lutgens
I had the pleasure of sitting next to Mr. and Mrs. Rick and Jackie Schultz during the 2024 graduation ceremony at NRHEG.
Rick thanked me numerous times for the quality coverage we provide of the school district.
I responded with gratitude, and, because this isn’t the first time he’s...
I couldn’t sleep Saturday evening into Sunday. Finally, I got up and wrote the following.
I prayed a lot these last two months for the first Congregational church in New Richland. Upon learning about the closure of my lifelong church, I was saddened.
I can kindly report those prayers have...
It was Mother's Day on Sunday last week. My family celebrated by going to lunch in Waseca. At the same time, unplanned, my aunt and her kids decided to go to the same restaurant, arriving only moments after we arrived.
It was a lovely afternoon filled with tears from my mother as she read...
Numerous times this week I thought of someone, and they either called me, texted me, or walked in my front door moments later.
First, I was driving to work and thought of my friend Jake. I intended to give him an update on a life situation (positive) and hadn’t stopped to see him. As I was...
On Monday I had the opportunity to speak with coaches and players before, during and after photos were taken for the Star Eagle’s annual spring sports preview.
I tried to do something special this time and spoke with captains from each of the sports. (Well, most of them.)
Scheduling...
I’ve been rewatching a series called “The Newsroom.” The show focuses on TV journalists, mainly a broadcast journalist and his team based in Atlanta, Georgia.
In the pilot episode, the show begins with main character Will McAvoy giving a response to a question from a lecture hall in college...
I’m sitting here working late at night on the paper, Monday evening. As I’m writing headlines, I pause at Al Batt’s. Choosing headlines, especially for opinion pieces like columns, is a balancing act. In a few words I have to attract attention to the piece while also reflecting the writer’s...
My father, Deb Bently and I all attended the Minnesota Newspaper Association’s banquet last week to accept awards we had won after entering the statewide Better Newspaper Writing Contest.
This was the second time I have ever entered myself for an award.
The first time was two years...
We’ve lost a lot of good people this year.
That’s not something one expects to say in the first days of February.
Last week it was Brent Possin.
In January it was Jane Wagner.
At the end of 2023, Winston Evenson.
Brent farmed just up the road from my mom’s house. I...
Last week, I was too immersed in the loss of Jane Wagner to write about much else. Our community lost another legend last week, Winston Evenson.
Two years ago for Veteran's Day, I really wanted to write about him. Each year we feature a veteran and his name kept being recommended. But he...