John Anderson’s Blog

The 84th annual Kolacky Days Celebration is taking place Friday through Sunday in Montgomery. The Kolacky is a well-known treat. It's a small dinner roll-like pastry that is folded, enclosing the filling in the center. The most common fillings include prune, poppyseed, apricot, apple, blueberry, and raspberry...

Faribault Main Street Car Cruise Night is back Friday night (7/20) it all starts at 6 PM on Central Avenue in downtown Faribault. There will be lots of great tunes and more.

Jonathan Tilman Lane of Kiel worked for Johnsonville Sausage and is charged with putting foreign objects in sausages while he worked at the Sheboygan Falls company.

For those that commute back and forth a lot to the cities, there are some more headaches happening this week.

It has now been 38 years since I graduated high school. But I still remember a lot of it. It was a very different world then. We did not have lock-ins or some after graduation thing at the school.

The good news is that there will soon be a state-of-the-art public service building to better connect the seven city buildings that are spread all over downtown. The bad news 1000 parking spaces are currently on the site of this building.

50 volunteers deliver Meals on Wheels in Faribault. That's about 100 short of what a town this size should have. Soon the number of routes will have to decrease and the number of meals each volunteer has to carry will increase due to the shortage of drivers.

If you traveled anywhere near the Twin Cities the last couple of days, you may have seen some MnDot signs that read, "Air Quality Alert. Refuel after Dusk." I had not recalled seeing that ever before. So I wanted to do some digging to find out what that meant.

I have always had a love for classic cars and trucks. They were the best of the '60s and early '70s.

I am looking forward to participating in another Cannon River Rendezvous May 24-28 near Cannon Falls on the Whitson property. It's great to get away from technology and live life like it's around the period of the 1840s fur-trade era. The public is invited to visit 10AM to 4PM  Saturday and Sunday and 10AM to 3PM Monday at 2153 Highway 19 Blvd...