April 2022

Even though the field has been plowed, plenty of snow remains on the Two Harbors High School baseball field and the season is still a ways away. More snow is predicted as winter and spring continue to jockey for position. Local ball teams are hoping to get games underway soon and it looks like next week is the target. Photo courtesy of Forrest Johnson

Youth and Spring in the Bottomlands There were hundreds of ducks and geese on the river representing the wide variety of species that twice annually traverse the Mississippi Flyway, north to south, or south to north, depending on the season. On this day in early April they were heading north, but staging on the Mississippi River, because the ponds and lakes to the north were still locked in ice.

Editor’s note: Yes, the Great March for Community Newspapers still awaits the parachute jump signal from the very reluctant editor and Tony Xzcerlippy of Tony’s Underwater Limousine Service (Lake County Press--editions 2-5). And yes, in recalling an earlier skydiving incident in which the reluctant editor was stuck flying an old plane that he didn’t know how to fly, it gave him pause to think of a story in which God Takes a Vacation from humanity and its lack of humanity for each other (Lake County Press—editions 6-8).