Our View: Festival means fun time ahead

The Corn Palace Festival, an event that spent part of the off-season in controversy, begins today. We, and the thousands who will meander the streets snacking on caramel apples and braving carnival rides, couldn’t be happier. The Corn Palace Festival is no small thing in Mitchell, a town that embraces its rural heritage more than most. We are a city that not only has built a shrine to agriculture — the Corn Palace — but one that is able to make jokes about it, with goofy highway signs that go well past corny.