Dakota Datebook

Lady and the Tramp by Christina Sunwall May 23, 2022 — On this day, May 23, 1975, Peggy Lee of Jamestown, North Dakota was presented with the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award for her work in the field of motion picture and popular music.

Small Businesses Need Community Support

Reprinted from May 30, 2019 Far too often people love small businesses, but do not want to patronize them because they think they are too expensive. Small businesses make up the backbone of our country. They were around long before large corporations and big box stores.

Life’s transitions...

This Sunday there will be a group of seven young people who will walk across the stage of Drayton Public School to receive their diploma signifying their graduation from high school.

…we never looked back, and I hope we never will.

Last Saturday my bride and I journeyed southwest of here to Fordville to attend the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Tri-County Sun. The TCS was the first newspaper started by the Ness family and remains an integral part of the Ness Press family of newspapers.

Do We Have a Mental Health Crisis?

May being Mental Health Awareness month, it seems appropriate for us to confront an issue that eludes our attention until it strikes home. It is odd that mental health has become a major problem in a country flowing with money and professionalism, both essential for attacking the problem.

Letter to the Editor

Looking Towards a Post-Roe America In the past few weeks, we caught a glimpse of how the United States Supreme Court is thinking about deciding Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Mississippi abortion case that is expected any time now.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1829 Whose woods are these I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.” (the beginning of the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost.

Empathetic Allocations of Experience

“We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men...We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you came from, who called your name.

Will Paying the IRS Quarterly Increase My Social Security?

Dear Rusty: I waited to sign up for Social Security until I turned 70 last month so I would qualify for the maximum benefit.

Friendship

C. S Lewis (1898-1963) wrote a few thoughts on friendship; “522…the greatest of worldly goods...