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Turkey hunters can buy their licenses for the spring 2022 season starting Tuesday, March 1. Licenses can be purchased online at mndnr.gov/licenses/online-sales.html, by phone at (888) 665-4236, or in-person wherever hunting and fishing licenses are sold. To help understand hunter distribution, license agents will be asking hunters which permit area they plan to hunt. The…

Dear Savvy Senior, A while back I saw an article on different ways to scatter a person’s ashes after they’re cremated, but I’ve misplaced it. Can you help me with this? I’m preplanning my funeral and would like to include instructions on what to do with my remains that my family will appreciate. Planning Ahead…

St. Cloud State University is the latest institution to join the Age-Friendly University Global Network as an Age-Friendly University. The Age-Friendly ­University Global Network is a group of 88 higher education institutions around the world that are committed to becoming more age-friendly in programs and policies and create opportunities for an aging population. The institutions…

Dear Dietitian, I am on a diet, and I usually drink one or two diet sodas a day. A coworker insists that diet sodas cause weight gain instead of weight loss. Is this true? Suzanne Dear Suzanne, Artificial sweeteners, or nonnutritive sweeteners (NNS), made their debut with saccharin in 1884 in Germany. Saccharin is sold…

Dear Savvy Senior, What’s the best way to go about making a living will? I recently retired and would like to start getting my affairs in order, just in case. Approaching 70