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March 2025

Alison Leathers checks in on local schools as they implement a new comprehensive reading program through Minnesota’s READ Act.

An impulse-buy at a local farm store leads to a sweet new family tradition.

An amazing feat is making progress. Colleen Froehrenbacher has a video update on moving a stretch of the Root River’s main channel back to an earlier bed near the Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center.

Steve Harris interviews nationally known local artist, Joan Finnegan.

Fisheries and environmental quality along the Upper Mississippi River could benefit from the Mississippi River Basin Fishery Commission Act of 2025, introduced in late February. We learn more from the Mississippi River Basin Ag &

On the occasion of Women's History Month, Jane Skinner Peck reminds us of the rich history of the women’s civil rights movement in southern Minnesota.

David Phillips visits with Michelle de la Vega, nationally known artist and transplant to a small farm in southeast Minnesota.

Root River Current seeks Board of Directors candidates to support 2025 growth—can you help?