The onset of 2018 has been a time of change, cold and challenges. With temperatures falling to -30 on January 1, I started off the year trying to resurrect not one, but two dead vehicles. My trusty rusty Ford Contour was in a cold-induced coma and countless efforts to jump start it failed. ...

Kendall Young Library has an exciting start to the year with our Friends of the Library Festival of Chocolate event quickly approaching on Sunday, Jan. 28 from 2 to 4 p.m. It’s a chance to share treats and memories with fellow chocoholics, show support for this annual library fundraising ...

So, is it cold enough for you?  I must have heard that at least a dozen times over the past few days. And to answer — yes, yes it is cold enough for me. More than enough. In some parts of the Midwest, it was colder than the temperatures at the North and South Pole. We reached ...

With the arrival of the New Year, many catalogs with plant and seed offerings are also arriving. Many of these contain new plants among the pages of the garden seed catalogs. If you have been gardening for long, seed catalogs seem to arrive almost daily this time of year. Many seed ...

Open water trolling is a technique, or at least a phrase, that most anglers are familiar with. Trolling on the ice is a technique that more and more ice-anglers are becoming familiar with. Trolling on the ice might not make sense at first, but once you understand the concept, it will start ...

So there I was on way to church on Christmas Eve. I left a little early to have time to put air in the tires on my little red car because I had just received a diagnostic report on email telling me that all four of them were five pounds low. And since I was heading out on a three-hour drive ...