I’ve lived in Faribault my entire life but my wife and I enjoy traveling all around Minnesota as well as the surrounding states. When I’m not at work I’m usually spending time with my grandchildren and my grown children. I enjoy going to watch the Vikings, especially at US Bank Stadium, concerts, taking my wife to various musicals and going out to eat… I really enjoy that, as my bathroom scale can attest. I love music and spend a lot of time on the weekends looking for CDs of big hair bands that I don’t currently have in my collection.
Mike Eiler
Cannon River Mobile Home Park Receives Grant for Playground
The sounds of children enjoying new playground will soon be heard at the Cannon River Mobile Park in Faribault due to the nearly $50,000 Legacy Fund grant provided by the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee, or MNSBHC, as part of their 52 Weeks of Giving...
Weirdest Small Towns in the United States
It's amazing the crap you can find on Facebook. Today I was perusing this rich and diverse digital social community and stumbled across the website Ranker.com, where they proudly proclaim you can vote on everything. I'm not really sure how much scientific data is actually used in any of their stories, ranking various things like "The Coolest Ghost Towns in America," "The Best Bill P
How Do Southern Minnesota High Schools Rank?
How good is the public grade school or high school you're sending your children to? I found a website called Niche that considers several parameters about each school and tabulates the results to see how they rate.
According to their website, "The 2017 Best Public High Schools ranking is based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U...
Recycling: It’s A Green Thing
I saw a joke on Facebook today that was about how today's younger generation are more in touch with saving the environment or, as the elderly woman calls it, "green thing." The older woman goes on to school the teenage upstart that recycling has been around for years, we just didn't call it that, we were being thrifty...
Mike’s Rules For Driving on I-35
Interstate 35 is a major north/south Interstate Highway that runs from Texas to Minnesota that splits into I-35E and I-35W in Burnsville and reconnects just south of Forest Lake to continue on to Duluth.
I-35 is a modern marvel of transportation that passes through several major cities in the heart of the United States...
Fog Blankets Faribault [PHOTOS]
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines fog as "vapor condensed to fine particles of water suspended in the lower atmosphere that differs from cloud only in being near the ground." It's also considered to be a form or type of low-lying cloud...
Wyoming Man Receives New Face at Mayo Clinic in Rochester
This morning during the news I had a story about how surgeons at the Mayo Clinic just completed the first face transplant ever performed at that prestigious facility. It was a short story so I thought I'd try to find out a little more information...
Day Without Immigrants Protests Trump’s Muslim Ban
Immigrants across the nation took to the streets yesterday as part of a one-day boycott to point out the integral role they play in the U.S. economy. In the Twin Cities, more than 100 businesses closed their doors as their immigrant employees participated in a "Day Without Immigrants...
Sad To See The Snow Go?
February has turned out to be quite a warm month, with temperatures approaching the 60s by this Friday. Our average high at this time of the year is 29 degrees Fahrenheit and the average low is 8 degrees above zero, and we normally get about 8 inches of snow...
Free Showing of ‘Lost in Woonsocket’ Tonight
Get inspired by attending a free showing of "Lost in Woonsocket" this evening at the Paradise Center for the Arts in downtown Faribault. This documentary feature film follows a group of filmakers conducting a humanitarian experiment for the A&E Network called Random 1. Ev...