Dear Savvy Senior,
Can you recommend any good online hearing tests? My husband has hearing loss, but I can’t get him to go in and get his hearing checked, so I thought a simple online test could help him recognize he has a problem. What can you tell me?
Loud Talking Linda
Dear Linda,

From the CDC
People 65 years and older are at higher risk of developing serious flu complications compared with young, healthy adults. This increased risk is due in part to changes in immune defenses with increasing age. While flu seasons vary in severity, during most seasons, people 65 years and older bear the greatest burden of severe flu disease.

10 years ago
October 24, 2012
Randy Carlsen, Publisher
 

Question: I'm seeing more and more vehicles in Minnesota with dark tinted windows. I thought there was a law prohibiting dark tinted windows on both the driver and passenger windows but back windows can be dark. Unless the laws changed and I didn't know. Thank you 

The following case was heard in Dodge County District Court the week of Oct. 9 with Judge Pamela King presiding:
Thomas J. Mitchell, 49, Rochester, previously appeared and was convicted of felony possession of cocaine or methamphetamine. He was sentenced to 5 years of supervised probation.
The following misdemeanors and petty misdemeanors were heard in Dodge County District Court the week of Oct. 9 — 16:

Just a reminder: 2nd half property taxes due Oct. 17
 
Here is a quick reminder to homeowners: Second half property taxes are due on October 17. If you pay a home mortgage payment you are probably paying it on a regular basis but for those that do not it comes due twice a year.
Second half of taxes for farm property comes due in November.