Good Thunder News

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.

Buildings closed. Electives and extracurriculars eliminated. Part-time administrators and disappearing cheerleaders.

The Metro Gang Strike Force improperly used Minnesota's forfeiture laws to seize money, cars and other property, and the Legislature should review those laws in its upcoming session, more than 20 members of the Minnesota House and Senate were told during a joint hearing Wednesday at the State Capitol.

An Oct. 3 wedding is planned. Birr - Danks The Free Press Melissa M. Birr daughter of Mark and Linda Birr of Good Thunder.

Mary Helen Peterson, age 92, passed away quietly at her daughter's home in Florida on March 26, 2009.

A person about whom I have great memories is Emma Shaver. I can't remember when or how I met her, but our friendship took some unusual turns.