Good Thunder News

The Dodd Ford bridge near Amboy was the recipient of a $3,000 Historic and Cultural Heritage Grant to study the potential costs of preserving the 130-year-old bridge.

Special sessions are so 2007. The word of the year in the Minnesota Legislature for 2010 was "unallotment," a noun referring to the governor's unilateral budget-cutting powers.

Minnesota State University has been requiring its business majors to purchase laptop computers since before Y2K.

Arnie Lillo has made a name for himself with his outdoor metal silhouette creations that adorn area landscapes.

Should there be a law enforcement database with nearly 14,000 names of people who may have hung out with gang members or been photographed with them but aren't confirmed gangsters themselves? If someone is misidentified as a gang member, how can that person get removed from the list? Should there be concern if gang databases disproportionately ...

Finishing the fall semester up strong, the Good Thunder Reading Series will feature writers Edward Micus, Connie Colwell Miller and Christina Olson for a craft talk and reading Thursday.

Justin and Jodi Woitas announce the birth of a son, Gabriel Justin, on Oct. 30, 2009, in Mesa, Ariz.

Wisconsin writer David McGlynn and Minnesota State MFA student Amanda Schumacher will talk craft and read in CSU 284 as part of Good Thunder series today.

After hearing hours of testimony Thursday about how state forfeiture laws are supposed to work, many legislators had vanished by the time two citizens spoke of their problems after police seized their property.

A supervisor for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources who won her job back in a labor arbitration is alleging that top managers committed gender discrimination when they fired her a year ago.

A survey initiated to see if Lake Crystal residents would support a child care facility also found a fair percentage of people are unhappy with the city's Police Department.

David McGlynn, author of the short story collection, "The End of the Straight and Narrow," worries about being labeled a Christian writer when he incorporates religion into his stories.

Bruce William Blakesley, 50, passed away suddenly on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at his home "in the boondocks" near Amboy.

Today, the Good Thunder Reading Series will showcase a blend of artistic fields as writer Philip Bryant and jazz pianist and vocalist Carolyn Wilkins take the stage.

Philip Bryant grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working class neighborhood where parents wanted their kids to go to college instead of work in factories and steel mills.

Misfit Acres held its sixth annual fundraiser in Good Thunder on Sunday. Misfit Acres is a non-profit horse rescue and sanctuary.A The fundraiser, Celebrating New Lives for Horses, goes to support the rescue of unwanted, "unlucky" horses.A According to Jody Thisted, one owner of Misfit Acres, some of the horses that come to Misfit Acres are OK.A ...

Ron and Elaine Marzinske's American Gothic pose is apropos to their iconic piece of farmyard art - a restored vintage windmill of the type that once dotted the rural countryside before the arrival of electricity.

The controversial Metro Gang Strike Force has been disbanded but the repercussions from possible misconduct are reverberating at the State Capitol.

It was a full house at this year's first Good Thunder Reading Series as creative writer Dinty Moore took the podium on September 17.

This year 2009 marks the 50th season the Rainy River Cattlemena s has held cattle sales at its yard in Stratton, ON.