Opinion

If you know, please enlighten me.

If you know, please enlighten me.

If you know, please enlighten me.

Saturday afternoon I headed out into the yard to try get some cleanup done. After repairing the sidewalk where I had to take it apart for the new natural gas line I got out my new chainsaw and prepared it for our first project together.
Facts are enough to defeat Measure #1

Facts are enough to defeat Measure #1

Facts are enough to defeat Measure #1

For a variety of reasons, Measure #1 doubling the size of the Board of Higher Education is a bad idea. Four management organizations say that eight-member boards are more effective, more efficient than 15-member boards.
Pastor Leroy’s Column

Pastor Leroy’s Column

Pastor Leroy’s Column

We need money to survive, but often people are not satisfied with their income. There are things they want to buy, there are places they want to visit and things they want to experience, but their salary will not allow it.
Valley News & Views

Valley News & Views

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1745 “The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high.” (the beginning of the poem “To an Athlete Dying Young,” by A.E.
	Living, Loving, Forgiving, Surrendering

Living, Loving, Forgiving, Surrendering

Living, Loving, Forgiving, Surrendering

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson In the sacred heart of all creation lies a thread of hope so diligent it grows without thought or reflection.
Can I Get Social Security with My Municipal Pension?

Can I Get Social Security with My Municipal Pension?

Can I Get Social Security with My Municipal Pension?

Dear Rusty: I retired from a municipal Fire Department seven years ago at the age of 54. It is a private pension, and I was exempt from Social Security while I was working. I receive about $50,000 per year in pension benefits.
Bowesmont Lives

Bowesmont Lives

Bowesmont Lives

With the beet harvest underway there isn’t much news from the Bowesmont Lives group. Domenic and Amelia Stellon were overnight guests of Mike and Judy Stellon Tuesday and Wednesday and then stayed Sunday through the following Wednesday.
Joy (Part Two)

Joy (Part Two)

Joy (Part Two)

You had a good sleep after your late evening trip to the ER at Queen of the Valley Hospital. You still feel no pain from the tumble where you cut your chin and shattered a tooth. With stitches in the chin, you turn your attention to getting your tooth fixed.
Valley News & Views

Valley News & Views

Dakota Datebook

An Innocent Bystander by Dave Seifert by Dave Seifert October 5, 2020 — In yet another example that whiskey and cards don’t mix, The Fargo Forum reported in 1894 of a scuffle that resulted in the near death of innocent bystander Andrew Ness.
Valley News & Views

Valley News & Views

Mr. Townley goes to Washington

There are very few surviving photos of Arthur C. Townley — the North Dakota socialist, organizer and political boss who shaped the state in the 1910s. But in one of them, he is doing what he did best: working a crowd.