The Heart of Home

“She’s your mother, you love her, there won’t be another place like her again that you call home. She stands here to help you, there’s nothing she won’t do. As long as she’s alive, you’re not alone, you’ve got each other. That’s your mother.

I’m Working; Why Hasn’t My Social Security Benefit Increased?

Dear Rusty: I will be 72 in July. I started taking my Social Security at age 64 after a job loss and other items that came up. So, my plan to wait past 68 evaporated, but I have continued to work since that time at a considerably smaller amount.

The Ladder

You first learned of Jacob’s ladder on the flannel boards in Vacation Bible School. It made for a great show and tell story. You later learn that you have to grip and lean into a ladder to use it. You become one with a ladder to accomplish tasks.

Bowesmont Lives

Monday Merv and Phyllis Holter had lunch at the Sugar Bowl Senior Citizen’s Center and were among those attending the monthly business meeting. The next day Saralee Hoselton took the PCMT van to Grafton where she visited Linda Hoselton at her Sunse Leisure Estates Apartment.

Dakota Datebook

Gold Star Band by Merry Helm May 2, 2022 — One of NDSU’s oldest organizations is the Gold Star Band, organized in 1902 by a local musician and the Secretary of the College.

Valley News & Views Editorial

Have you given thought to what happens when the local newspaper closes? It is not that far fetched of a concept. It happened in Walhalla not that many years ago then less than a year ago it happened once again in Langdon. Langdon got lucky because someone decided to start new newspaper.

And then there is that...

I recently had to face reality. The reality that I can not continue to do what I do anymore. The reality that what I have been trying to make every attempt to avoid is coming to pass. The reality that one of the toughest decisions of my life needed to be made.

Tush Warmer To Start a Robin Mecca

“This here emergency meeting is called because Little Jimmy thinks he can make our town a spring Mecca for the flocks of robins that come in freezing weather,” Chairperson Ork Dorken announced as he looked over the 11 electors that made up the Community Homeland Committee.

…we need our newspaper…

One day, just last week, I was part of a conversation about what is happening in, and to, many small communities in our state and surrounding regions. One person said when a town loses its school it dies. Another said that a town dies if it loses its grocery store.

Letter to the Editor

It is Foster Care Awareness Month and although we highlight this in the month of May, we shed light on Foster Care every day of the year.