Letter from the Editor | There are some things that just scream Fourth of July.

The smell of sunscreen. The sound of fireworks echoing across a small town. Kids with sticky hands from melted popsicles. Red, white and blue everywhere you look.For me, though, the Fourth has always smelled like diesel fuel and turnout gear.

My two cents | Cave Man TV by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

I guess when it gets down to it, I’m pretty much still a kid at heart.Over the past month, I’ve been doing some traveling. About a month ago, my wife and I traveled to northern Wisconsin to the place we affectionately call “the cabins.

The tour of my desk will just have to wait by Bob Simmons

For those tuning in to take a tour of my desk drawers (as promised last week), I hate to disappoint you, but it’s true…to quote Scottish poet Robert Burns: The best-laid schemes of mice and men often go astray.

Letter from the Editor | Celebrating the small stuff

Sometimes I think we spend so much time waiting for the big moments in life that we forget to appreciate the little ones.Last week was one of those weeks that felt like it was spent entirely in my vehicle.On Monday, I took Amelia to the R-COOL-SCRUBS Camp at the University of North Dakota.

My two cents | Are you kidding me? Pro Algae? by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

I often wonder if we, as a country, or at least half of us, have gone completely insane.Yes, I acknowledge that there is a political divide in our country.It’s not exactly a 50-50 split; more realistically, it’s probably 40-40 with the other 20 percent undecided or ambivalent.

FORE! by Bob Simmons

I had a visitor drop by the other day whom I welcomed into my office in Langdon. He looked a little let down upon viewing my space. He said, “I thought your office would be bigger.” “Bigger?” I said. “No, it’s just right for me.

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The future of local government: a call for civilityAcross North Dakota, local governments are facing increasingly difficult discussions that affect our communities, families, and future.

Along the way | Reminiscing

There are moments in life that define the people we become. There are memories that nourish when life seems to gather us in the seas of uncertainty and doubt.

Bowesmont lives

On Wednesday, June 10, Saralee Hoselton took the PCMT van to Grand Forks for an appointment and then went to the Good Samaritan Home in East Grand Forks, where she visited former Drayton resident Jan Maurstad and had dinner with her.

I want a pony by Bob Simmons

No, actually there are a couple of things I’d like to have, and a pony isn’t one of them.For quite some time, I’ve wanted to buy an old caboose and convert it into an extra sleeping cabin for family and friends at our lake place.