THE NEW YEAR is underway and we hope and pray the pandemic will end soon. Vaccinations are underway but it will take several months before the majority of the population has been treated. It may be necessary to use masks for the next two years. They will reduce the spreading of other disease…

So, did you have a Merry Christmas?

We are wrapping up on what I can most definitely say is the strangest year I have ever experienced. To list the oddities of the past twelve months would take a very, very long ream of paper-enough to desecrate the environment.

MORE OUTDOOR DECORATIONS are noticeable this season. People are eager to find ways to celebrate the holiday season. There have been so many restrictions -and many are necessary - that people are finding that with the warm fall weather, they could get outdoors and enjoy decorating.

Whenever I hunt grouse I think of Peter Pan chasing his shadow.  

From reading my past columns some of you know our five-year-old (almost six as he would say) son, Maverick, started playing hockey last year. We figured it would be a good way from him to burn off energy.

Well, Christmas is knocking on our doors. I hope you are ready and are able to spend time with friends and family, which is the best gift one can receive. Throughout my newspaper career, I have run the following editorial, the most famous newspaper editorial of all time, reprinted here becau…

We are a week away from Christmas. Are you ready?

Last week while sitting in my Amery Free Press cubicle, kitty-corner across from my boss, Tom’s cubicle, he yelled over some exciting news to me. It wasn’t about government or pandemic information (he would have saved that for a group news editor’s meeting). It was an announcement he knew I …

Jesus’ Christmas List

90 Years Ago

Why do sandwiches taste so much better when they’re wrapped in wax paper?

I was thinking about what a Christmas in a pandemic looks like and began feeling a bit sad about the special events we all look forward to at this time of year that either won’t happen or will be fundamentally changed.

I hope that everyone made it through Thanksgiving with full hearts and stuffed bellies. Now that Thankful Thursday has passed by we are in full swing of celebrating the holiday festivities.

90 Years Ago

So, Thanksgiving has come and gone. Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday have also passed. I have a few of burning questions for you.

Special to the Baldwin Bulletin.

Article by Sandy Burleigh

95 Years Ago

Superstition is for gypsies and baseball players.

Do you follow a sports team?

While some schools across the nation have been in remote learning modules since classes restarted last fall, others were reunited face to face with students.

Thanksgiving is going to be different this year. Covid 19 has drastically changed our lives over these last couple of months. We seem to be inundated with new uncertainty and anxiety daily. This Thursday though we are asked to think about blessings and about giving thanks. Psalm 92:1 reminds…

Why do sandwiches taste so much better when they’re wrapped in wax paper?

Question – is it too soon to start talking about…the holidays?? I know, it’s early, despite the serious chill (and snow!) in the air. Winter is long enough, so let’s not rush past fall, right? Still, the holiday season is on the horizon, and the fact is, no matter how tired we all are of hea…

At least one elusive Grinch in the St. Croix Valley was puzzled to see his likeness on display in Big Box retail stores on the first weekend of October. Inside the Big Box, the Grinch action figure was joined by the Jolly Old Elf, a reindeer named Rudolph, a beagle named Snoopy, a Nutcracker…

My 14-year-old son, Kellen, took in deer opener in Clearwater, Minnesota, on a friend’s farm. Across the upper Midwest, hunting is a rite of passage, along with fishing opener. When we lived in Osceola, Wisconsin, employees often would request the two weeks off for deer hunting at the time o…

I realize I’m a week early, but with the holiday and postal delays next week, I thought it was best to be early — Happy Thanksgiving.

We have all heard the saying, “The grass is not always greener on the other side.” I have been reminded of that lesson lately, except I think with the current status of the weather, it might be more appropriate to say, “The snow is not always whiter on the other side.” In fact, I feel like m…

I’m not talking about the 1990’s, but rather, the 1890’s. Let’s roll back through the Baldwin Bulletin news to see what›s to be learned. In 1890, one of Baldwin›s very earliest dwellers, Ove Olson, died. He’d come around 1867. Baldwin’s second large fire took place in 1893, their first havin…

Joseph La Page was born in 1848 in either Paris France or Canada. He was in the Civil War as a private in Co. H, Reg 9 of the Vermont Volunteer Infantry. Serving from May 1 to October 1, 1861. He was wounded and is listed as a Union veteran. (U.S. 1890 Veterans of the Civil War, Statutes at …

Stress. We all live with it every day. Stress can be positive or negative, depending on the situation. Positive stressors (called eustress) might include anticipation of happy occasions like an upcoming wedding, a vacation, or the holidays. On the other hand, negative stress (called distress…

Special to the Baldwin Bulletin.

Well, that was quite an election, wasn’t it?

80 Years Ago

Alex Trebek, the longtime host of Jeopardy, 80, died on Sunday after battling pancreatic cancer.