Looking to harvest wind

Dear Editor,Concerning letters submitted last week from Jerry Mork and Reuben Parks, I think that more should be said to provide further information to voters in the upcoming election.First, the utmost concern should be the safety of citizens located in the vicinity of a large-scale wind farm.

More wind tower information

Dear Editor:In regards to Jerry Mork’s and Reuben Parks’ letters to the editor last week.One of the two wind tower developers’ footprints is in the Webster Area School District. Both Webster Area School District and the Groton Area School District would receive school tax revenue.

In favor of harvesting local wind

Dear Editor,I am a native of Day County. My grandparents immigrated from Norway over 100 years ago and bought a farm southeast of Pierpont. It was on this farm where my mother and uncle were born. I purchased this farm after my mother died and it is rented to a three-generation farm family.

OLE & LENA

A man stumbles up to the only other patron in a bar and asks if he could buy him a drink.“Vy sure,” comes the reply.The first man then asks: “Vere ya from?”“Norvay,” replies the second man.The first man responds, “Ya don’t say, I’m from Norvay too!

Reader is a fan of Ole and Lena jokes

Dear Editor,I spent three years in Webster in the late ‘70s and it made an everlasting effect on my life. I met the love of my life and my bride of 44 years, Cathy Nilson.

Day County landscape not for sale

Dear Editor,Day County landscape is not for sale. Vote “no” on Ordinance #2024-1, an ordinance establishing zoning regulations for Day County.Day County is a very beautiful county with its rolling hills, forested acres, streams, lakes, native prairie grass, productive crop land and more.

Too radical to accept

Dear Editor:Sentiment of the vast majority of Day County residents, municipal and rural, does not favor the 1/2 mile wind turbine setback and doesn’t want wind turbines on their land or within sight of their homes.The Day County Commissioners failed the residents of Day County in protecting the...

Fans need to show respect for the game

L etter to the editor to the editorDear Editor,On behalf of many, I want to speak on an incident that happened after the high school football game on parents’ night Oct. 11.

Value of print is on display

Last week I got to do one of those “it’s not every day” kind of things. I attended the ribbon cutting of a new business in Watertown. Now, you might be thinking, “what’s so special about that?”

Streaming services are becoming too much

Recently, I feel that one of the most annoying things of the modern internet age is the abundance of streaming services and the amount of content which jumps from platform to platform every few months.I grew up in the midto- late 2000s and the early part of the 2010s where the streaming service...