Christmas 1959

It was a sparse year underneath the Christmas tree, but it didn’t seem to matter. Two months prior your family had moved into the home on Lincoln Avenue. For the boys it meant going from sharing one cold bedroom on the farm to sharing two warm bedrooms in the new basement.

Bowesmont Lives

November 28th Merv and Phyllis Holter were among those who attended the Family Comedy Show put on by Matt and Nathan Aufenkamp as part of the Tein Covenant Harvest Festival at New Life Assembly of God church.

Dakota Datebook

White Bread Blues by Merry Helm December 13, 2021 — Owners of North Dakota’s grain milling businesses were in an uproar during this period in 1908. Bleached flour had just been outlawed through the efforts of Professor E. F. Ladd.

Is it appropriate to report on everything...

Schools on the eastern side of North Dakota have had a rash of issues at their schools. In the news has been issues at multiple schools and they have been highlighted on the nightly news and on social media both. There are many thoughts as to whether or not this is, should be, or must news worthy.

Dear Santa...

Each year Valley News & Views prints Santa letters from the lower elementary children from Drayton Public School. As they are typed in the office there are often chuckles of pleasure as we read them.

Questioning the Ethics of the Ethics Commission

The ethics of the constitutional North Dakota Ethics Commission are being subjected to questioning by North Dakotans for Public Integrity, creators of the Commission, because the rules proposed by the Commission would permit a continuous conflict of interest involving campaign contributions and...

I guess old William Randolph knew what he was doing after all.

It may be hard to for you to believe this, but my bride and I do not always see eye to eye about everything. Understand this, when it comes to all the major issues we are pretty much lockstep in are agreement.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1806 Announcer: “The Columbia Workshop presents the third of Twenty-Six by Corwin, ‘The People, Yes.’” (A typical opening for Twenty-Six by Corwin, an anthology program on radio; CBS, May 4 to Nov. 9, 1941) CONSUMER PRICE INDEX (CPI) Based on figures from the U.S.

Divine Rejuvenation

“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?” - George Elliot On the trails of life’s journey, there are moments of inspiration and understanding. These sparks of sweet serendipity hold the hope filled accumulation of sacred blessings.

Social Security’s WEP is Unfair – I Want My Money Back!

Dear Rusty: How can a foreign company pay into the US Social Security system? I worked in Barbados before I immigrated to the USA and earned a pension there. Now my US Social Security benefits are reduced because I receive a pension from Barbados.