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Governor Mark Dayton was on hand to officially proclaim Redwood Falls a Yellow Ribbon City in the city council chambers August 7. Left from front: Pastor Keith Klavetter, Redwood County Attorney Steve Collins. Back: Paul Torkelson, Gary Dahms, Army Jagor General Richard C. Nash, Dayton, Redwood Falls Mayor Corey Theis, local Beyond the Yellow Ribbon organizer Laura Olson, Director of Military Outreach Annette Kuyper, Lt. Col. Steven Schemanauer, Capt. Adam Riedel.   By Joshua Dixon Staff Writer Posted Aug. 11, 2014 @ 12:01 am   When Laura Olson of Redwood Falls was...

By Joshua Dixon Staff Writer Posted Dec. 28, 2013 @ 12:01 am Generally when you think of people winning Emmy awards, you think of glamorous TV stars on red carpets. You don’t immediately think of veterans sitting in a meeting room at the Redwood County government center on Tuesday mornings. Yet for nearly 20 local veterans, it happened on Nov. 9 when the producers of the documentary Battlefield on the Homefront were presented with an Emmy on Oct. 9. For local veterans, it began in the spring of 2010...

There’s a literary legend in which Ernest Hemingway places a brash wager on the power of brevity.  Insisting that just a few well-chosen words are enough to tell a compelling story, Hemingway bets several other writers $10 each that he can compose a complete story – one with a beginning, middle and end – in just six words. Once his buddies ante up, he pens this on a napkin: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Short. Engaging. Powerful. Whether it's true or not is a matter for literary scholars to debate. But when it comes...