Valley News & Views Editorial

We live in an era of an instant society. With the use of computers, the internet, and social media we now live in an era where information is at our fingertips. We have gotten used to instant answers to questions by picking up our nearest device and googling an answer.

Life in the Slow Lane?

With the announcement that school and fall sports will be resuming there are many people with very mixed feelings. I do not have school aged children, but I do have a spouse who works at the school. I also cover sports as part of my job. I too have mixed feelings about what is going on.

Looking Down Main

Conspiracy theories abound. It seems that no matter what is happening in our society there are those who are able to find one conspiracy or another. Sometimes they are correct, there is actually a conspiracy, but much more often than not they are just plain wrong.

Guest Columnist

This exploitation of doctors and nurses in this coronavirus pandemic has gone far enough. They should just call in sick tomorrow and be as irresponsible as most other folks who treat the pandemic as just another inconvenience.

Letter to the Editor

PATRIOTS: It is time to make some noise for the Red, White, and Blue. Many of us want to let our voices be heard against the lawlessness we see in our country, but don’t know how to go about it. The silence is killing me.

Pastor Leroy’s Column

As the book of Daniel comes to a close the angel Gabriel told the prophet that “...the words [of his prophesies] are closed up and sealed till the time of the end” (12:9). We are going to focus on the last five words of that statement – “...the time of the end”.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1733 “Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

Along the Way

“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Ask Rusty

Dear Rusty: I am almost 64 and still working, and I plan to work until about 66 or 67. My wife is 62. Should she go ahead and file for her Social Security? Is it true that she can draw on my SS after I pass away?

Bowesmont Lives

Merv and Phyllis Holter spent from July 19 to 28 at Lakewood Bible Camp on Devil’s Lake. On June 21 st Geoff Hoselton and Dylan picked up Saralee Hoselton and took her to their Fargo home where they met Lisa Hoselton who took Saralee to her Falcon Heights home.