Memorial Mosaics

“Heroes never die. They live on in the hearts and minds of those who would follow in their footsteps.” - Emily Potter In the significant saturation of authentic aspirations, one finds solace in the memories of our experiences.

Must I Pay Income Tax on Social Security Benefits?

Dear Rusty: I do not recall the rules on my income tax obligation for Social Security benefits. Can you please explain these rules to me? Signed: Senior Taxpayer Dear Senior Taxpayer: I’ll be happy to review the rules about income tax on Social Security benefits for you.

From my Window

A student graduates. You are an oyster in a huge ocean. Looking in all four directions you see vaguely through the haze on the horizon, while the navigator is busy guiding the ship. Writing was not in life’s plan.

Bowesmont Lives

On Monday Saralee Hoselton and Phyllis Holter were among those eating lunch at the Sugar Bowl Senior Citizen’s Center. Saralee stayed for an afternoon of socializing. On the following day Lynette Restemayer of Cavalier picked up Saralee Hoselton and took her to supper at Hastings Landing.

Dakota Datebook

May 30, 2022 — A “peculiar accident” was reported by the Fargo Forum on this day in 1902 that involved one fortunate little boy and one speeding passenger train. The incident occurred two days before near Glasgow, Montana, and concerned the Chamberlain family of Forest River, North Dakota.

Always more than meets the eye...

Last week’s tragedy in Texas has started a new round of debates. There was again a huge tragedy in a school leaving many friends and family grieving the loss of loved ones. Every time that something like this happens it opens the debate about gun control.

It’s been a good run...

I started my journey of newspaper ownership in September of 2014. In the beginning for the first couple of years I spent many long hours each day, working seven days a week wondering what I had gotten myself into.

… I might just as well wrap this up.

Writing a column in a weekly newspaper, especially one in a community this small and close knit, often feels like one is a salmon swimming upstream with a grizzly bear standing on shore with an expectant, hungry, look on his face. And yet I would not change one moment of it.

Student Debt: Fairness Is the Issue

The drumbeat for abolishing student debt is growing as students and former students feel the financial crunch of poor employment and increasing inflation. Forty five million (45,000,000) Americans owe $1.6 trillion ($1,600,000,000) for federal student loans.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, I had worked up myself through a real good rant but I have to walk that back in light of the good news. However, some of what I planned to say is still apropos: this is so wrong on many levels. You are the age of my daughter; so I should be on the sidelines, not you.