Tylor David Patrick, 33, Osage, had his initial appearance Friday in Mitchell County District Court on a parole violation for a 2014 vehicular homicide conviction following his latest felony charges.
Tylor David Patrick, 33, Osage, had his initial appearance Friday in Mitchell County District Court on a parole violation for a 2014 vehicular homicide conviction following his latest felony charges.
Dance is an artform. Amanda Powers knows this well, and she is doing her best to spread that passion to the next generation. Powers is director of Just for Kix in Osage – it has been a long journey that has brought her right back to where she started.
There are a few moments sitting at my desk where a leafless walnut tree casts a thin shadow, its trunk slowly strangled by a parasitic vine, when I feel peace through a disregard for the passing of time, because I am lost in the artform and science of writing. Perhaps lost is the wrong word.…
In 2020, I held my breath and dove into the Shane Hill baseball nonfiction book project with the help of Professor Edward P. Churchill, Ph.D., "Uncle Ted," as he was known to my family, lived with my grandfather Gerald Selby on the farm before my grandfather married Denise Ingraham in 1939. …
Several years ago, I wrote my column, “Garden Road,” in a notebook scribbled upon by my four-year-old daughter Jasmine. My wife, Jennifer, normally used those yellow pages for her shopping lists, but one time, Jasmine grabbed it from the counter and swirled her abstract art, and Jennifer did…
Once again, it was an eventful year.
This is the 25th anniversary of the advent of the new millennium, and it does not seem possible that it was so long ago. That is 25 New Year’s Eves since 2000. I was working in Des Moines at the Press Citizen newspaper as a graphic designer at the time. As I drove home for the weekend to my …
Custodians can be heroes too. If you do not believe that, look back to the COVID-19 pandemic – their jobs were essential, in some cases to survival.
During our last Christmas in the farmhouse where we grew up, my brother Grant used the high school’s video camera to record a Selby family holiday. It was one of those old black bricks containing a lens and weighing several pounds. He followed our father around, purposefully angering him, an…
Audrey McCarthy grew up in the cold, on a farm far north in Morris, Minn.
Sometimes memories stick with you. I remember a day when my children were younger, later in fall when the maples were no longer beautiful. Trees stripped of leaves, time changed, the children knew no difference, Jasmine waking us at the normal hour for reasons we could not always remember la…
Kimberly Jorgensen speaks Spanish. That is useful, as she is the new Spanish teacher at Osage Community High School.
For some reason, my Grandpa Selby started placing old boots and shoes upside-down on the tops of fence posts on our farm. He called it Boot Hill. They made excellent nests for hornets. As the boots aged, their seams came undone, and their soles peeled away from the rest of the footwear. Shoe…
Thanksgiving is once again upon us. I am not sure where beautiful fall went, with all its colors, and Halloween, with all its childish joy. Now the land is browned, tan crops harvested, the leaves stripped from their trees. Christmas is coming too soon.
Katelyn Wittrock is all about beginnings. As a preschool teacher, she is the first teacher her students will ever know.
Monsters are real. Though Halloween has passed, I must return to it to make a point (it is a fabulous holiday, worth celebrating a few weeks later, because it should not be time for Christmas yet, no matter what the commercials on TV say). Halloween has impressed upon our minds the images of…
I am embarrassed and ashamed to be an American when I think of how our elections make us appear to our global neighbors.
We are celebrating Veterans Day once again this year, and it is always personal for me, even though I only got war second hand.
There is always music in Micheala Eisenmann’s life. This fall, she’ll play clarinet in the pit band for the Osage Community School District’s production of “Bye Bye Birdie.” But Eisenmann’s day job is school business official for Osage. Music helps balance out the business.
It has been eight years since my father died of cancer. He would be angry if we were sad or let Oct. 25 change us in a negative way.
Jessi Wegner loves Halloween. It is her favorite holiday. This October, she is sharing that love with her students.
In first grade, when I was much younger than I am now, I went as an ape for Halloween. My mother bought the suit for me from the small former mining town of Centerville in southern Iowa. It was once famous for its diversity, as the mines brought in many different races and creeds.