Letter from the Editor |

I’ll start by saying I hope you started your week with as many fingers and toes as you went into the holiday weekend with! I’m happy to report all of my appendages are still intact— mainly because I did not set off any fireworks.

Wells Drinking Well Fordville Motoclimb Results

Fordville, ND | June 28, 2026 | Presented by Champion Seed50cc1. Madelyn Zorn (#703), Cooperstown, ND — Distance: 161 feet2. Jameson Dahl (#84), Hannaford, ND — Distance: 158 feet3. Vienna Gitter (#54), New Ulm, MN — Distance: 123 feet4. Elinor Grabanski (#118), Inkster, ND — Distance: 119 feet5.

Along the way | Passive peace

There are moments in time, fleeting in their purposeful salutation, that bring life back to the emptiness experienced in the grief-filled challenges that find us. In them we are awakened to the soul’s understanding of our personal journeys, connecting to the sacred alignment of restoration.

Letter from the Editor | There are some things that just scream Fourth of July.

The smell of sunscreen. The sound of fireworks echoing across a small town. Kids with sticky hands from melted popsicles. Red, white and blue everywhere you look.For me, though, the Fourth has always smelled like diesel fuel and turnout gear.

My two cents | Cave Man TV by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

I guess when it gets down to it, I’m pretty much still a kid at heart.Over the past month, I’ve been doing some traveling. About a month ago, my wife and I traveled to northern Wisconsin to the place we affectionately call “the cabins.

The tour of my desk will just have to wait by Bob Simmons

For those tuning in to take a tour of my desk drawers (as promised last week), I hate to disappoint you, but it’s true…to quote Scottish poet Robert Burns: The best-laid schemes of mice and men often go astray.

Letter from the Editor | Celebrating the small stuff

Sometimes I think we spend so much time waiting for the big moments in life that we forget to appreciate the little ones.Last week was one of those weeks that felt like it was spent entirely in my vehicle.On Monday, I took Amelia to the R-COOL-SCRUBS Camp at the University of North Dakota.

My two cents | Are you kidding me? Pro Algae? by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

I often wonder if we, as a country, or at least half of us, have gone completely insane.Yes, I acknowledge that there is a political divide in our country.It’s not exactly a 50-50 split; more realistically, it’s probably 40-40 with the other 20 percent undecided or ambivalent.

FORE! by Bob Simmons

I had a visitor drop by the other day whom I welcomed into my office in Langdon. He looked a little let down upon viewing my space. He said, “I thought your office would be bigger.” “Bigger?” I said. “No, it’s just right for me.

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The future of local government: a call for civilityAcross North Dakota, local governments are facing increasingly difficult discussions that affect our communities, families, and future.