The Minnesota WILD are just like butter! LINCOLN PARK Once again the WILD are on a roll! For the calendar week just concluded they went a solid 3-0. Of course, they weren’t facing all of the toplevel clubs in the show, but considering that anyone can beat anyone on a lot of nights, they have to be gratified with the results.
Although the Lake County Press knows that the majority of sportsmen and women are law-abiding folks, there are a few that run afoul of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officers. Periodically, the DNR provides a report of some of the miscreants the Conservation Officers (CO) have encountered. The Lake County Press shares these stories as a reminder to all to be safe and to follow the rules!
At the end of teaching a theater workshop for students, I asked “What is your one take-away from today?” A 12-year-old shot up her hand, scanned the whole group and in an Auntie Mame bravado declared “ANYone can be an actor!”
Well, here we go with a second edition of the Lake County Press. Yes, there have been a few glitches in ordering subscriptions I’m told. And at last notice we were missing a bundle of papers for Knife River and our little office down at 629 1 Avenue in Two Harbors is still a bit spare. To add to the learning pains the burglar alarm in the enclosed entryway went off when we entered the building last Saturday to move some desks and get the space organized.
It feels appropriate to initiate a new paper with a discussion of bias. Media bias has always existed, and can significantly impact how much readers trust what they are reading–or if they even bother to read. And now I’m speaking as a reporter for the Lake County Press when I say that there are things that we can do to gain and keep your trust. One of the best ways for a news source to gain trust is to openly acknowledge its bias. In this spirit, I’m going to share with you my biases (from my biased perspective), which means sharing where I come from. This will allow you to take everything I write about with a certain levity–knowing that I am a finite, opinionated, well-intentioned human being.
Welcome to the Lake County Press! In what has been a whirl of a process to get a newspaper to homes across Lake County I can only say that I never thought I’d be at the editor’s desk again. Well, at this writing I don’t have a desk quite yet or even a chair but none of that matters at this point.
How We Impact the World really means, how do people from Lake County, Minnesota make a difference in the world. I want to share stories about world-renowned surgeons, entrepreneurs that are solving water issues in Africa, and travel with former residents that have gone back to their ancestral countries of Sweden, Norway, and beyond. All these people and many more grew up in Lake County, and then went off to impact the world. I want to bring them back one week at a time. I want to tell their stories.
So January is many things but I think the word most people use to describe it is “long”. Yes, technically it’s tied for the longest month of the year with others but I’d like to see any other month look hard and long into the cold, grey eyes of January and see who blinks first.
Greetings to all and welcome to the first edition of the Lake County Press! I know I am not alone in my sense of excitement and satisfaction that our county is sprouting a new way of sharing news and information, events, joys, concerns, and dialogue.