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February 2025

Now in her 25th year of coaching, Rachel Schieffelbein shares what it takes to compete in high school speech.

Learn how your community can benefit -- and beautify -- from a 2025 Paint the Town Grant from the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (applications accepted through March 31), and tour some of the recent projects

With Congressional conversations underway regarding Social Security, Amy Jo Hahn takes us back in history to the “poor farms” that helped address poverty and aging prior to when Social Security was enacted in 1935.

John Weiss introduces us to high school students and their hands-on learning about rainbow trout and the delicate balance of conditions needed to grow them into big trout.

Greg Lovell visits Neighbors in Action, a La Crescent nonprofit working to keep seniors in their homes.

John Torgrimson 'warms us up' to a public sauna business in rural Houston County.

Original photography from southeastern Minnesota featuring nature scenes and community activities.

Tom Brudvig explores the growing sport of girls’ wrestling in southeast Minnesota

Inside the Winona Arts Center: John Torgrimson introduces us to activities available to the southeast Minnesota region.

An excerpt from the book "Buggy Land" about life in Amish country by author Mary Swander.