Famous, but ‘not very pleasant’ opera singer rests at Grantsburg’s Riverside Cemetery
Walking is one of the daily adventures that gets me out of the house during this Coronavirus Pandemic era. On nearly every occasion I’ve been drawn to walking around Riverside…
Clear Lake’s Gaylord Nelson was the “father” of Earth Day
Wednesday dawned brightly with a promise of reaching nearly 70 degrees. But what also arrived was “Earth Day,” a celebration of the environment many Americans appreciate. Some don’t realize how…
Play Ball!
Today is the day I look forward to all year long. From the moment the last pitch is thrown in the World Series until the umpire once again hollers, “Play…
Livin’ a dream
Without looking, Charlie Clark pointed across the street from his Clear Lake, WI home and said, “That’s where Burleigh lived.” Suddenly, he seemed to be transported into another world —…
All aboard — if you want to end this sooner
We shut down one stage of our lives last week and now await what The Lord and the future have in store for us. Totally obeying President Trump’s order…
Update on volunteers
It has been a week since we rolled out our neighbors helping neighbors initiative on The WE ARE Network (goto thethewearenetwork.com to sign up if you need help or if…
Fighting an unseen enemy
The sign on a church in Grantsburg indicated there would be no services on Sunday. It’s just one indicator of how local people are reacting to the pandemic known…
WE ARE here to help
Ok. Let’s breathe for a second and think about what we control and what we don’t right now. We control, as always, our actions and our attitude. We do not…
Return-Rest-Renew
Many veterans return home to lives filled with fear and peril — and they’re haunted by the wars and skirmishes they thought they’d left behind. Vietnam veteran Rodney Wilson, a…
Merritt’s illustrious pastoral career began in Falun, WI
One of the best-known pastors in the midwest stepped down from his position as senior pastor at the mega-church Eagle Brook in White Bear Lake, MN last Sunday. A large…
