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A big advantage of retiring is having more leisure time to travel, and millions of seniors capitalize on that free time every day. Seniors spend more on travel and leisure than any other demographic, according to the United States Census Bureau. The international travel agency Virtuoso says the...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu   Catalogs are filling up our mailboxes, both hard copy and virtual! Garden centers have stocked up. Time to get your seeds ordered for the 2022 growing season. Seeds have been in short supply for the past two years due to reduced staffing,...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu   Pink moth orchid (Phalaenopsis)   People love houseplants. They bring live greenery into homes, offices and classrooms. Plants add color, sometimes fragrance and connect us to nature. Some are said to improve air quality. There is even a...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu   Setting up a compost system is a great way to convert your food and landscape scraps into valuable organic matter for your garden. Since summer tends to become busy, winter is a great time to design a compost system that meets your space,...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu   Jennifer Knutson, U of M Extension Master Gardener volunteer   A University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener shares thoughts on edible landscapes, pollinators and volunteering. Jennifer Knutson has more to do this winter than drool...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu   As many of us are nestled inside next to the fire and starting to think about spring, loggers are hard at work across Minnesota’s forests. Just like the month of April is the busy season for tax professionals, winter is the “tax season”...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu   For the past two years, we've been working with farmers at Clover Bee Farm, Shepherd Moon Farm, and Big River Farms to test the viability of non-chemical methods for managing Colorado Potato Beetles. Various strategies are mentioned in...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu   Food safety is a critical part of all produce farm operations, and recent outbreaks in Listeria monocytogenes in bagged salad greens from Dole and Fresh Express continue to make headlines, and continue to send consumers to the hospital....
Brian Alnes, 53 Brian Jon Alnes, loving husband and father to four sons, passed away on Tuesday, January 4, 2022.  He was 53 and was serving as the Executive Director of Lake Beauty Bible Camp in Long Prairie, MN. Brian was born on March 25, 1968, in Edina, MN, to Allan and Sandra (Anderson) Alnes...
Famous actress, often called America’s Sweetheart, Betty White passed away on December 31, 2021, just a few weeks short of her 100th birthday. According to CBS News she passed away of a stroke she had six days earlier. Many know Betty White from the hit television series, “The Golden Girls” that...

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The name and face might be familiar to folks in the Buffalo area, but one might have trouble recalling the exact reason for Nick Lostetter’s rise to the surface of one’s mind. If you’re a theater-...
Buffalo’s Coborn’s building was a pile of bricks on Tuesday, October 2, after beginning destruction on Tuesday, September 25. The building’s demolition has been discussed among city officials for a...
Progress on the new Justice Center is well underway, according to Alan Wilczek, Facility Services Director for Wright County. “As of now, things are going well and are on schedule,” Wilczek stated....
Dassel-Cokato 2018 graduate, Isaac Morris (19) died at Bemidji State University after he allegedly fell from a campus residence hall the weekend of September 30. The 19-year-old Cokato resident fell...
Walking on gravel, in the dark, I was trying to not make any noise. I could kind of see where I was going, but when you are carrying heavy and expensive camera gear, you always want to be extra...
After posting the first-ever win in its first-ever game in program history, the Buffalo Coyotes co-op Adapted Soccer team suffered defeat for the first time with a 9-0 home loss on Wednesday, Sept....
For only the second time in team history, the Buffalo volleyball team advanced to Saturday’s championship bracket in the St. Michael-Albertville Midwest Fall Classic Volleyball Tournament. A pair of...
A 3-1 home loss Monday night to St. Cloud Tech pretty much sealed the Buffalo boys’ soccer team’s playoff fate. Despite a 7-4-2 overall record, the loss to the Tigers dropped the Bison’s section...
Two key section wins in the final week of the regular season helped secure a four seed in this week’s Section 5AA tournament for the Buffalo girls’ tennis squad. A 5-2 road win on Wednesday, Sept. 26...
It was a brisk afternoon at the Buffalo Heights Golf Course on Thursday, Sept. 27 for the annual Buffalo Invitational Cross-Country Meet.  The sun was shining and the teams set up camps in the center...

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