From my Window

Drought is often thought of as a lack of moisture. The farmers know it well. Or a drought can be a prolonged shortage of something else. It can happen to the soul of man. Man feels lacking in his soul apart from God. Men will strive to fill the void of not knowing God.

Bowesmont Lives

On Monday Gayle McConnell went to Grand Forks where she had lunch at Far North Restaurant with the Retired UND Business Professors and spouses. July 13th Saralee Hoselton took the PCMT van to Grafton where she ran some errands and visited Linda Hoselton at her Sunset Leisure Estates apartment.

We the People

Advocates of congressional term limits have strong arguments, as we observed last week of the ongoing effort to impose a ceiling on the number of terms that members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate can serve.

The cost of doing business or the last straw...

When it comes to small businesses it is hard to compete on a level playing field. This is very true when it comes to accepting credit cards and especially all the talk of a manditory minimum wage of $15 per hour. It is easy to say that both of these are just the cost of doing business.

Life in the Slow Lane?

Out of the 24 years of Riverfest I have been to it for the last 21 years. It has changed a lot over the years and so has the attendance.

Looking Down Main

I did not win a thing this past weekend during RIVERFEST, but I know I was one of the biggest winners of the weekend. My prize had no monetary value, but I know in my heart it was better prize than I could have won in either one of the raffles which ended over the weekend.

Guest Columnist

We were immigrants. High on hope and strong on expectations. A barren prairie just waiting for the rails and the plow. So we came. All immigrants. The first of us were Yankees, Scots and Irish. Then the Germans and the Scandinavians poured in.

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: I’m writing to urge the 2021 North Dakota legislative districting committee to study the possibility of splitting each Senate district into two parts for seats to the state House of Representatives.

Pastor Leroy’s Column

David wrote, “Blessed is he that considereth the poor”. He added this promise, saying, “the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble”, and “[God] shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor [of the poor]” (Psalms 41:1; 72:4).

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1785 “The broad-backed hippopotamus Rests on his belly in the mud; Although he seems so firm to us He is merely flesh and blood.” (the beginning of the poem “The Hippopotamus” by T.S.