How important in transmitting infection are the Sars-CoV-2 viruses found on surfaces? What a difference a year makes, in so many ways! A recen…
LA CRESCENT, Minn. — Marilyn Gladys (Inglett) Klawitter, 84, of La Crescent died Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, at her daughter’s home, with family by…
Question: My neighbor’s cattle are always out. They don’t take care of their fence and they are getting into my yard. I can deal with that, bu…
Question: I was wondering if you could address what someone, such as my spouse should do if needing to call 911 and cannot speak or type as bo…
Dec. 22
Any medical test for anything is not infallible. We have heard in the last 4-6 weeks some interesting results from COVID tests in people close…
When we are hardly able to think about anything else but COVID, coronavirus, testing, vaccines, etc., it might help to get a little respite fr…
DAKOTA, Minn. — Kyle Dulek, who freely admits he thinks about white-tail deer hunting 365 days a year, imagined that someday, somehow, he woul…
Dec. 1, 2020
At Christmastime, one tradition is to hope. In this medical column, can I prescribe some pill, balm, salve or nostrum that will give us hope? …
ONALASKA — Florence “Flo” Page, 77, of Onalaska passed away peacefully surrounded by her family Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, after a five-year battle…
Question: What is the legal following distance? What can I do when someone is following too close behind me? Isn’t there a rule of so many veh…
Give him a participation trophy. Buy him a Happy Meal. Turn on his night light and tuck him in with his binky.
Mary Elizabeth Schlangen, was born Nov. 28, 1959, to Eugene Schwanbeck II and Leona (Darga) Schwanbeck, in La Crosse, Wis. She grew up in near…
LA CRESCENT, Minn. — Irene Faye (Morrison) Farrell, 98, of La Crescent died Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, at La Crescent Health Services. She was bor…
It was an extraordinary bit of befuddlement.
The Minnesota Association of Townships (MAT) is proud to announce its 2021 Scholarship Program, which will award up to five $2,000 scholarship…
Q: Did I hear there is extra DWI enforcement going on over the holidays?
Sharon K. (Waldera, Nelson) Park, 77, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, just shy of her 78th birthday.
The test came back negative. I could roast my turkey.
Q: If driving a commercial vehicle and stopped, what documents are needed to present to the trooper?
Whoever thought the word mask would become a “four letter word”? Or that it could be the source of such emotional, intense, often irrational d…
Each year I try to think of some medical aspect in our lives for which to give thanks. It took no time at all in this extraordinary, tumultuou…
Q: I have heard a lot about “click it or ticket” recently, I thought seat belt use was at an all-time high?
Dear Houston County residents,
Gerald "Jerry" Raymond Sauer passed away peacefully Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, with one of his daughters by his side and the rest of his family em…
Randy “Barney” Roy Stephens, 67, of La Crosse passed away peacefully Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, at Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse. He was b…