Useful thinking

I am writing from a resort in Florida reading the news on my IPad from the Bismarck Tribune.Here there is lots of sand, sea, and pleasant tourists, some who came on the same Allegiant flight my wife and I took out of Bismarck.

Regional research powerhouse NDSU maintains R1 classification as one of nation’s top research institutions

NDSU has again been recognized as one of the country’s top research institutions by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The Research 1 distinction is Carnegie’s highest classification and is presented to the nation’s top research institutions.

Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing Workshop

North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension will offer a two-part interactive Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing workshop on Monday, March 24, and Monday, April 21, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT at the NDSU Extension Walsh County office in Park River, ND.

Superintendent Baesler nominated to U.S. Department of Education post

Gov. Kelly Armstrong congratulated state Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler on her nomination to serve as Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education.

House and Senate Bills would impact students and schools

By Ann Estvold, NDNA Legislative Intern Proposals in the North Dakota Legislature would affect K-12 students and schools by regulating cell phone use, changing graduation requirements, and providing lowercost ways for building or renovating schools.

Prism of prose

I had not been sick for a couple of years. I almost forgot what it was like to be out of commission for a period of time. One is fortunate not to experience sickness every year or in some cases, a few years.

Reverse snowbird

Casting all your care upon him (all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, all your everything, once and for all), for he careth for you. KJV (1 Peter 5:7).I have a friend going through some troubled waters.

From the pastor’s desk

Solomon, in the book of Proverbs, shared some words about wives, such as “The man who finds a wife finds a treasure, and receives favor from the Lord,” and “Fathers can give their sons an inheritance of housesand wealth, but only the Lord can give an understanding wife” (18:22 ; 19:14 NLT).

Summertime

Soon winter will leave and then new leaves will return Twig by twig they will climb leaving the white gold and frost behind The buds and bugs in the green grass will announce, it’s Summertime!Lyon is an international poetPhoto by Duane H.H. Lyon