Month: August 2007

Several inches of rain that fell in August can’t repair the drought damage to Wright County’s corn crop, a farm official says, but it will help save the soybeans.  Both crops are expected to fall below […]

Libby Jones, the founder of Barking Madd clay creations, is anything but barking mad.  She has a perfectly reasonable explanation for filling her children’s pockets with bags of clay and sending them out to play.   And […]

The thought of their teenager getting behind the wheel of the family car is enough to drive parents to distraction.  But a device available to Annandale area families might be a way to teach teens to […]

It’s been many years since JJ’s Bar in Annandale started the Labor Day weekend street dance tradition.   And in those years, the dance has more often than not been plagued by rain.   "Every year we’ve […]

"In 1992 we were sent to prison by a deranged band director. We escaped from the maximum security band camp into the underground. Today, still wanted by the government, we survive as band members of […]