Wild parsnip causes concern

This week, the Wright County Board authorized Ag Inspector Ken Johnson and Kerry Saxton of the Wright County Soil and Water Conservation District to seek a grant to create a cooperative weed management area. The goal would be a cooperative effort to combat invasive species, such as buckthorn and wild parsnip (shown).

Click here for last summer’s article on wild parsnip
Click here for a map of the invasion

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Winners of Waverly’s Fishing Derby announced

The winners of the fishing contest that took place during Waverly’s Fishing Derby Saturday, Jan. 26 are as follows:
• Mark Leinonen, first place walleye, 3.76 pounds.
• Jake Young, first place northern, 6.49 pounds.
• Ryan Schmidt, first place pan fish, 1.13 pounds.
The three winners received trophies for their accomplishment.

Americans love police dogs

The Howard Lake police department reported Jan 22 about the use and effectiveness of its K-9 program. In 2007 the dogs performed traffic related sniffs, school sniffs, residential/commercial sniffs, agency assists and training sessions, totaling 71 uses. One use that wasn’t mentioned in the Herald Journal Jan. 28 article is how police dogs enhance the image of law enforcement officers. Almost everyone loves them, especially kids. Americans admire the dogs’ intelligence and how they help police officers enforce the law. Kids who grew up fearing police, learn police officers really are their friends when they interact with an officer and his K-9 assistant.

It’s part of the Diocese of New Ulm’s 50th anniversary celebration

Beginning in February and ending by Easter time, every parish and area faith community in the New Ulm Diocese will participate in a lenten parish mission. Read more

So what is the state of the union?

Monday night, many of you probably watched the State of the Union Address given every year by our current president. What was peculiar about this speech compared to previous speeches was George W didn’t give us the state of our union. Maybe he was afraid since the state of our union isn’t all that great. But the state of our union is different for each individual. So my question, what do you think is the state of our union?

Have you ever seen this yellow weed?

This week, the Wright County Board authorized Ag Inspector Ken Johnson and Kerry Saxton of the Wright County Soil and Water Conservation District to seek a grant to create a cooperative weed management area. The goal would be a cooperative effort to combat invasive species, such as buckthorn and wild parsnip.

Click here for last summer’s article on wild parsnip
Click here for a map of the invasion

Read more

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