Looking Down Main

When the new school year rolled back around I wasn’t able to go back to work because of my heart surgery.

Mom, Dad: Quit Feeling So Guilty

Guest Columnist In North Dakota we have over 1,700 inmates in custody in our correctional institutions. Another 6,100 former prisoners are on parole or probation. We also have 7,300 unruly and delinquent kids as juvenile court referrals. These are only the wrongdoers that have been caught.

Letter to the Editor

October 21, 2019 To the editor: A recent Legislative Update from Senator Janne Myrdal expressed deep concern about the “anonymous tip line” and other issues related to the Measure 1 policies that voters approved last November, the Ethics Commission amendment that is now Article XIV of the North...

Pastor Leroy’s Column

I have heard many people, even good church-going folks, say they don’t know if they will go to heaven once their time on earth has come to an end. One man told me that people cannot know with any certainty that heaven is their final destination.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1695 “Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

Along the Way

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. And sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.” - Emily Dickinson In the branches of time’s ever changing tapestry, there are moments when the very roots of our faith are tested beyond measure.

Social Security Matters

Earnings Test Dear Rusty: I retired from work this year (age 62) and I will receive my first social security benefits in September.

A Pembina County Retrospective Part 310

The July 5, 1912, “Cavalier Chronicle” carried a banner headline: “COURT HOUSE CONERSTONE LAYING,” followed by “Grand Ceremonies at Cavalier, Tuesday July 16th.” There would be a free barbeque in the city park and a baseball tournament. [The information was repeated in the July 12 edition.

Bowesmont Lives

Those attending the Sugar Bowl Senior Citizens Pizza Party/Membership Drive Monday included Saralee Hoselton, Clarice Mosolf, Merv and Phyllis Holter. Doug Young was a coffee guest of Richard and Gayle McConnell Tuesday.

Tidbits from AMAC

She’d paint the town red, if she could It’s been decades since the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but apparently there is still a love of the color red among some who live in parts of the former USSR, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC].