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2 months ago | 
dasselcokato.com | Dale Kovar
There are dozens of local stories from the last 50 years in my book about newspaper work, Joseph Wore Tennis Shoes: Stories From Small Town Journalism, and I’d love to hear from you which ones you enjoyed the most. I don’t use Facebook much, but it’s a great tool for easily sharing comments, so just go to my Facebook page and tell us which ones you liked best. Thanks for reading and responding.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Dale Kovar
Upon reaching the 50th anniversary of his first published writing, career newspaperman Dale Kovar of Winsted, Minnesota, has released a book featuring highlights from his work. Titled “Joseph Wore Tennis Shoes: Stories From Small Town Journalism,” the book follows Kovar’s career path at Minnesota weekly newspapers, most of which was spent in the Winsted area just west of the Twin Cities.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
herald-journal.com | Dale Kovar
Debates are the cornerstone of political campaigns. Tune out the misleading tv commercials, set aside the barrage of postcards, plug your ears to the sound bites, and ignore all the social media trolls. Political debates between candidates are meant to be open exchanges of ideas, policies, information, proposals, and even some back-and-forth criticism of each other’s positions.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
herald-journal.com | Dale Kovar
On a recent family vacation to Duluth, we visited the near-new Great Lakes Aquarium. The facility is a technological wonder. There are numerous attractive, interactive exhibits that appeal to all ages. At first appearance, the aquarium is a masterpiece of a modern-day museum. But beyond the first impression, the aquarium fails miserably when it comes to credibility. We found several prominent references in the displays to evolution and instances of the earth being millions of years old.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
herald-journal.com | Dale Kovar
So last week I told you it was time to go camping. Well, we did. You know what the weather was like over Labor Day weekend, right? Temperatures in the upper 90s. We went. We stayed. We sweated. We survived. And we enjoyed!On Monday, I was expecting Kwik Trip to call and ask if we would be needing more ice so they could plan their inventory.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
herald-journal.com | Dale Kovar
This week’s newspaper includes our Estate Planning & Sympathy section which addresses end-of-life issues. A fitting topic to be considered is abortion. Life clearly begins at conception. If left unimpeded, the cells develop and grow into a baby, then an adult. Abortion as an issue certainly affected our last elections, nationally and especially in Minnesota. Right from the initial leak about the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, it seemed suspicious.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
herald-journal.com | Dale Kovar
As you can imagine, feedback on my previous column about COVID vaccines reached both extremes – positive and negative. That in itself is important. It shows there are many varying opinions among us. One function of a local newspaper is to be a forum for public discussion of current issues, aside from social media rants to one’s own group of followers or the force-fed monologues on the tv networks. I didn’t say anyone shouldn’t get the vaccine. I brought forward reasons why someone might not want it.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
herald-journal.com | Dale Kovar
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
herald-journal.com | Dale Kovar
Last fall on a whim, we decided to pull our tent out of storage and see what shape it was in. It had been, at best as we could figure, at least 15 years since we had used it. Maybe it was even 20 or 25 years. We used to camp quite a bit. Then children entered the picture. Then there were more of them. Then they got bigger. Eventually camping fell by the wayside as there were plenty of other activities to do, both optional and required. Now with an empty nest, we can revisit some memories from the past.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
dasselcokato.com | Dale Kovar
As we endure through the COVID-19 pandemic, as of this writing, the fishing season appears to be able to go forward. In recognition of the fishing opener coming May 9, here’s a look at my most recent fishing outing in December. – – – – – –First of all, our son Rhett is currently stationed in Iraq with the Minnesota Army National Guard. Before his deployment, he underwent several weeks of training at bases in Texas and Oklahoma, and that’s where our story begins.
