The first rule of road trips is to never embark upon a road trip. At least not one like ours: 10 days and 2,500 miles of tent camping in the n…
Tonight we’re a party of five: Dad and daughters and our husbands. Dad’s been eager to try the fish fry at Irvine, the bar where he ate every …
On Sunday, June 23, Shopko’s two Chippewa Valley locations closed after almost three months of “everything must go” prices. In mid-January, Sh…
To the left of the stainless-steel elevator in Eau Claire’s Christ Church Cathedral hangs a plaque which reads: “The Frank and Miriam Carr Car…
I’m no stranger to the country life. I grew up on a dairy farm near Northfield in Jackson County, where neighbors helped each other out withou…
We are deluding ourselves if we think that exports alone will forge a viable future for America’s dairy farm families. We’ve had 25 years of s…
More than half of the U.S. population works for a small business, according to a recent news release from WalletHub, a personal-finance website.
Geography isn’t static. Rivers change course, mountains erode, and islands disappear under rising seas.
Despite the presidential caucus debacle Iowa hosted Monday, Feb. 3, the too old, too-white, and too-rural (at least to pundits who drop by eve…
Like a lot of our neighbors, I grew up on my parent’s dairy farm right here in Somerset. My mom and dad milked around 140 cows with each of us…
One thing Big Ag has gotten very good at over the last two decades is fighting what it sees as the “green” invasion of do-good outsiders into …
After the White House announced its twin trade triumphs, passage of NAFTA 2.0 and phase one of a multi-phase deal with China, readers emailed …
The economy is humming and most people who want a job have one. This is great news.
The onset of a deep chest cold recently pushed me to wander the aisles of rural America’s drug store, Dollar General, for any cure that might …
As I made my way to the Wisconsin Corn-Soy Expo a few weeks ago, I couldn’t help but think of my trek last year. A dreaded polar vortex had pl…
In 1953, Joe and Virgie See and their three preschool daughters were living in a 1-bedroom cold-water Chippewa Falls apartment when they bough…
Lynda Blackmon Lowery wasn’t afraid. At least not in the beginning.
It’s coming, that one special day of the year when I have to work extraordinarily hard to not knock trays of cookies from the hands of extreme…
Someone predicted the eggs would arrive around Halloween, and that turned out to be more or less accurate. I was gone when those first eggs we…
After last February’s record snowfall, I’m filled with more dread than usual about what these 29 days will bring. All of us who survived damag…
On the last day of its nearly 60 years in existence, my son and I walked into Thompson’s True Value and Variety Store in Eau Claire for one la…
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