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There are two things on my mind this week and I don’t want to write about one of them. I bet you can guess what that is. It has four letters and starts with an “s” and ends in a “w”. Likewise with the corresponding four-letter-word that starts with a “w” and ends with...

One year agoPrairie Elementary students and staff raised $7,230.47 in the school's annual Pennies for Patients fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The goal of $6,000 was easily surpassed, and students had the fun of throwing whipped cream pies into the faces of assistant...

I was in kindergarten when it happened. My first dental-related memory. I was riding the bus to school, squeezed onto an overcrowded seat. It was an old bus. The kind with no “cush” in the cushions. The kind where you felt every bump on the road. The kind with a metal bar on the...

Editor’s note: Former longtime Daily Globe Editor Ray Crippen died Dec. 27, 2015. We will continue to publish previously run “Isn’t That Something” columns on Saturdays, until further notice, as a tribute to Crippen and his knowledge of local and regional history. The following...

One year agoEmployees of Worthington's First State Bank Southwest recently contributed $5,000 toward the fund for a new splash pad in Worthington.

Ah, winter. Such a loaded word. A word that, after the temperatures of this past week, makes me shiver. Winter in Minnesota is far more exciting than winter was growing up in Washington State. On Orcas Island, we rarely saw snow. But if we did, by golly, we were almost guaranteed...

Editor’s note: Former longtime Daily Globe Editor Ray Crippen died Dec. 27, 2015. We will continue to publish previously run “Isn’t That Something” columns on Saturdays, until further notice, as a tribute to Crippen and his knowledge of local and regional history. The following...

One year agoAt the 88th annual Worthington Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Visitors Bureau banquet, awards were presented. The 45th annual Community Service award went to Ken and Zuby Jansen, while Bernice Camery received the Friend of Education award. The Worthington...

Last week I talked about how traumatic my piano lesson years were. But the trauma didn’t end. Sure, it took a break for a few years, but then I woke up one day and faced the worrisome decision of subjecting my children to that same trauma.

Editor’s note: Former longtime Daily Globe Editor Ray Crippen died Dec. 27, 2015. We will continue to publish previously run “Isn’t That Something” columns on Saturdays, until further notice, as a tribute to Crippen and his knowledge of local and regional history. The following...

One year agoMother Nature packed a heavy punch on Monday, Jan. 22, with heavy snow (11 inches in Worthington) and high winds bringing traffic to a standstill across portions of southwest Minnesota and northwest Iowa.

When I was a kid back on the island, my parents had pretty straightforward expectations of my two sisters and me. We would do well in school. We would behave. We would be kind and honest and obedient. We would go to church. And, only slightly less important, we would take piano lessons....

Editor’s note: Former longtime Daily Globe Editor Ray Crippen died Dec. 27, 2015. We will continue to publish previously run “Isn’t That Something” columns on Saturdays, until further notice, as a tribute to Crippen and his knowledge of local and regional history. The following...

One year agoScott Hain, general manager of Worthington Public Utilities, received the annual City of Worthington Excellence of Leadership award. Hain began working for the city of Worthington's wastewater department in 1985, was hired full-time as WPU coordinator in 1996 and was named...