Princeton man, now 93, survived kamikaze attack in WWII When World War II began, Princeton resident Evertt Snetsinger was just a regular Minnesota boy. He was the eldest of three boys, born in 1925 in Minneapolis. He spent several summers with his uncle Fred Hamman’s family near Upsala, near where his grandparents lived. Evertt Snetsinger, of Princeton, holds a piece of a kamikaze plane that crashed into the USS Sangamon on May 4, 1945. Photo by Jennie Zeitler “I remember mil

There is always a twinge when an actor or pop star dies, but when Ted Storck, of Morris, learned of actor Martin Milner’s death in early September, he lost a mentor of sorts. Storck in the LAPD back in the 1970s. Milner, who portrayed Los Angeles Police Officer Pete Malloy in the TV show Adam 12, was joined by actor Kent McCord who played rookie cop Jim Reed. The actors’ portrayals and the show’s stories, based often on real cases, prompted many, like Storck, to join the Los

Bruce Cottington, of Litchfield, is one of a rare, and unfortunately dying breed. He is one of the kids who enlisted in the U.S. military service illegally because he was only 15 years old at the time. He was sworn in the Navy on January 23, 1943 — one day after his 16th birthday. He was only 14 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and the U.S. entered WWII. “A date which will live in infamy” according to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “I was a sophomore in high