As usual, Roger Welsch summed it up best: “I’m not sure there can be a Dannebrog without Harriett. It seems like she’s been there forever. She’s become an institution.” Welsch is the famous Dannebrog writer and folklorist, and the Harriett he’s referring to is Harriett Nielsen, longtime owner of Harriett’s Danish. Harriett retired on Halloween, [...]

I’ve covered several school bond issues over the past three years, and I often get questions from people in one town about how things happened in another town. Many of the area’s bond issues center on the same few general issues — “Think of the children!” vs. “But is now the right time?” is a big [...]

Monday was a pretty cheerful first day of school for Gibbon students, with a new $18 million, 139,000-square-foot building to explore. But longtime business and technology teacher Linda Brodine wasted no time impressing on her students that with such a shiny new toy comes a lot of responsibility, too. Gibbon’s taxpayers have made an incredible investment [...]