At the heart of our services here at HOPE Center is the relationship with our clients. We describe ourselves as their advocates which may soun…
Several recent crashes involving ATVs have highlighted the dangers of the off-road vehicles.
I wasn’t in the best of moods.
Do you like ice cream? What about yogurt? Mozzarella cheese? Cheddar? Muenster? Do white sauces on pasta make you drool? Is your coffee not co…
In a 2005 Chicago Tribune interview with George Lucas, he describes the "Star Wars" saga’s political inspiration in terms of the Vietnam War e…
The host of every fishing show on T.V. says it at least once a season. The sentiment is a good one but it may lack some sincerity. They might …
New species of insects are not discovered in Midwest field crops very often. But recently, there have actually been a few new discoveries in t…
I think our weather has finally turned around and decided to be the spring we are waiting for! And that means we are all finalizing our plant …
4-H has been an incredibly important part of my life. I joined when I was in second grade and I'm coming up on my 10th year as a Rice County 4…
Welcome students, parents, teachers and staff of High Falutin High School.
Here are some strategies to reduce caregiver stress
I was driving home last Friday from my office in the Northfield Community Resource Center when I idled next to what appeared to be a nuclear f…
I’d started working a summer job at a large factory.
A study of caregivers has shown the off-repeated adage “stress can kill you” is true. The focus of the investigation was the effect the stress…
Letters to the Editor and Editorials
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We all deserve high quality affordable healthcare. No matter where we live or what we look like, when we get sick, we need care. No one should…
With spring finally just around the corner, I have been thinking about all the birds, bees and other wildlife and insects that all seem to rea…
On Monday the Senate approved a controversial bill that creates a statewide paid family and medical leave program. There is widespread biparti…
This month the Minnesota House passed H.F. 100 legalizing adult-use cannabis for those over the age of 21 and expunging the criminal records o…
Do you ever forget where you put your car keys or what you were supposed to pick up at the grocery store? You might worry that these memory la…
It was rush hour in a small town.
In conversations with people across Rice County, I find there is significant interest in what we do at HOPE Center. There is also very little …