I applied for a $30,000 grant from the State of Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund to get all the newspapers at the Mower County Historical Society put on microfilm. This includes many decades of the Lyle Tribune which I believe are the only copies that exist. This is the second time I'm applying for this grant, the first time it was rejected for an unrelated technical reason. I'm also pursuing a separate funding source directly with the newspaper department at the Minnesota Historical Society that would microfilm and digitize these papers. My ultimate goal is to have the Lyle Tribune preserved on microfilm and also available digitally. Having the digitized copy would be wonderful for doing keyword searches and doing research from home.