John Anderson’s Blog

The first day of fishing a little slow on Tuesday. Hopefully better on Wednesday. Hope tp have a few more pictures for you Wednesday. It's really cold and tough to shoot a lot outside.

Earlier this week I received a news release from Steve Pahs at the Rice County Soil and Water Conservation District. Rice County along with the Districts in Fillmore, Dodge, Carver and Mower Counties are helping sponsor a series of Soil Health Workshops with The Soil Guy, Ray Archuleta...

Greg Gellhorn has done a lot. He's been a great husband to his wife Amy and a great father to two kids, Sam and Sydney. He ran the 2016 Twin Cities Marathon. After that marathon though things were not quite right. And he loved to play basketball. Suddenly he found he could not jump. Last May, they found out that Greg had ALS. With this disease, the body starts to shut itself down, but the brain stays alert.

You need to make the call now. if you want to join us on the Winter Walleye Connection trip to Ballard's Resort Feb. 5-8. There are just a few seats remaining.

In the southeastern part of Minnesota, there are 102 snowplows are on the state highways in the 11-county MnDOT District 6. These plows handle 3,774 lane miles. An average route for drivers is 31 miles.

Many of you know that I come from that big city every day to work. I came down Sunday in anticipation of the storm. After a long day in the station on Monday Jerry helped me make sure I could get my truck out.

The National Weather Service has put out a Winter Storm Watch for Sunday night into Monday, cities included in the watch are, Minneapolis, Blaine, St Paul, Stillwater, Hutchinson, Gaylord, Chaska, Shakopee, Hastings, Redwood Falls, New Ulm, St Peter, Le Sueur, Faribault, Red Wing, St James, Mankato, Waseca, Fairmont, Osceola, Rice Lake, Ladysmith, Hudson, River Falls, Prescott, Menomonie, and Chippewa Falls.

New tax tables go into effect this year as part of the tax reform bill. The withholding tables tell employers how much money to pull out of your checks. 90% of people should see their take-home pay go up under the new guidelines.

If you are a regular user of I-35W in the Twin Cities, as I am, there will be some headaches tonight and Thursday.

B.A. was without starters, Jack Clark and Alex Bongers. So others had to step up and play more and longer during the game.