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My first introduction to Valley News & Views twenty years ago this month was as the fiancé of the Editor/Publisher with no intention of working at or having anything to do with the newspaper.

Looking Down Main

Technology is usually a wonderful thing, here at Valley News & Views the computer system, email, and layout software save dozens of man-hours of work every week. When everything works that is.

Need a Bigger View for Legacy Fund

While other armchair quarterbacks are surveying the work of the 2021 legislative session, the three most significant acts include $700 million in bonding for infrastructure, $70 million for “career academies” to expanded instruction in technical skills and statutory authority for using the $8...

Letter to the Editor

I was pleased to read Lyle’s comments in the June 10th edition of VN&V regarding “records cast in stone” - i.e., grave markers.

Pastor Leroy’s Column

We saw last time that at some future date Jesus will return to the Earth. The world will be engaged in an all-out war and approaching the end of all life (Zechariah 14; Matthew 24:21-22). His return will mark the end of some six thousand years of war, famine, pain, and heartache.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1780 (Sound of a phone ringing) Woman: “Hello.” Voice: “Are you listening to your radio, ma’am?” Woman: “Yes.” Voice: “To what program are you listening, please?” Woman: “Those Websters.” Voice: “Can you tell me what’s advertised?” Woman: “Of course, everybody knows that.

Along the Way

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson In the peace of the transpiring pieces there are the transcendent accumulations of faith’s balancing shelter.

Ask Rusty

Dear Rusty: I took early retirement at 20 years from the Louisiana public school system in 1996. Since then, I have continued to work in private schools (except for 2 years in public). I now have over 20 years in the Social Security system.

From my Window

The Kingdom of God is mentioned more than a hundred times in the New Testament. It is not mentioned in the Old Testament. We see indications of God’s sovereignty and power in the OT but it is not until Jesus came on the scene that the Kingdom of God is articulated.

Bowesmont Lives

Jim and Fran McConnell of Grand Forks spent May 26th with Gayle McConnell and also celebrated Jim’s birthday. Saralee Hoselton took the PCMT van to Fargo May 27th to the eye clinic and then was taken to the Geoff and Hope Hoselton home.