Madville Times

So I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation proposal yesterday. Big deal. Here's the biggest success of my day: She asked for p...

For lunch, I stepped out of the office and chopped a hole in the lake. Punching holes in Lake Herman: another guy compulsion About twenty fe...

Lake Herman was still wavy yesterday, but it settled down enough overnight to freeze: Don't drag out the ice shack just yet: that's ...

Tuesday's MDL reports the Madison City Commission plans to raise my neighbors' rates for electricity, water, and garbage. on electr...

We volunteers in the Dakota Water Watch bacteria monitoring project took our last samples for 2010 on October 12. The biology lab at Dakota...

The Lake Herman Sanitary District budget process was not nearly as interesting this year as last. Board member Lawrence Dirks and I went th...

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it... other than shooting YouTube videos! John Nelson on the east side of ...

I made it to town between downpours. In the Mundt library, I missed most of the second gullywasher of the afternoon, oblivious in my earphon...

Paramedics arrive at scene of vehicle rollover at Highway 34–Territorial Road intersection , Lake County, SD, 2010.08.24 ~10:30 CDT Whew—tha...

The next time someone around Lake Herman suggests we build a central sewer system around the lake, I'm going to remind them of the grief...

I got to break out the waders and boonie hat and play Junior Science Ranger again yesterday: we had another round of water sampling as part ...

So we come home from a lovely day at the Brookings Summer Arts Festival . Windy, warm, just what we expect at Pioneer Park, and still loads ...

This time we thought we'd plan ahead.... Blog and bike enthusiasts alike, up for a bike ride tomorrow morning ? Regular commenter, avid...

Lake County Search and Rescue just drove up in my yard looking for a missing boater. I didn't catch all the details, but evidently a cou...

Bicycle, camera, no need to rush home... photos around town! ( Click pix to embiggen! ) Looking west down Northwest First Street... in prair...

The Lake Herman Sanitary District appears to be in for another three years of a dull status quo. In an absolute repudiation of anti-incumbe...

On the agenda for tonight's Madison City Commission meeting: discussion of the how much the city will pay landowners for allowing cons...

...and I go for a bike ride.... Whoo-hoo! Lake Herman is open... mostly! 60° Fahrenheit, big bright sun, and 20–30-mile-per-hour south wind ...

I look out my window at Lake Herman, South Dakota, this morning. I'm greeted by a gorgeous clear sky... and my thermometer: Well, at lea...

Who needs a bike trail to Lake Herman... how I got home today ...when there's a bike trail on Lake Herman!!! No breakthroughs, no broke...