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Question: In early spring, a group in our school is considering having a bicycle event for kids. We don’t want to wait until the last minute to find out what...

Continuing with our robust schedule of literary, cultural and history events, we have something for everyone in March and April. There will be a creative songwriting workshop for sixth- through...

There have recently been several articles in the paper discussing the need for a veterans home here in Bemidji and more importantly in our part of beautiful Northwest Minnesota. This...

“Ask not what your fortune cookie can do for you but what you can do for your fortune cookie.” That’s the best fortune I have ever received. Why? It really...

It all began in February 1964 in St. Louis. The telephone rang. “This is the International Institute calling. There is a young man here from Sweden who is very lonesome...

Lent was always a dark time when I was young. I remember going to those Wednesday night Lenten services where my grandfather served as pastor. It always seemed so cold,...

When Victor Borge came to Minot some years ago to put on his program of music and comedy at the Norsk Hostfest, my wife, Gerda, and I were his hosts...

When you are used to cooking for a whole family, especially if it consists of growing boys, you cook big pots of chili, stew, soup, and the like. But when...

The Bemidji United Methodist (BUMC) bulletin for Dec. 23, 2012, said Pastor Gay would be on vacation Dec. 30, and announced a substitute preacher for that Sunday. However, it occurred...

A Bemidji area audience was wonderfully entertained a few weeks ago by a well-known Minnesota vocalist named Prudence Johnson who, with her piano accompanist, put on an excellent two-hour show...

Here we are in the dead of winter. Or as the poet Christina Rosetti called it, “the bleak midwinter… snow on snow on snow.” Those are the lyrics to a...

Question: Is there still such a thing as a farm license? I remember some of my friends having one, but that was a long time ago and they basically used...

One of the polite things you can do with people you don’t know very well is ask them about their jobs. What do they do? Who do they do it...

Scandinavians first came to America in the days of Leif Eriksen 1,000 years ago. They have been coming ever since. The modern period of emigration from Norway dates back to...

Have you noticed the myriad of energy and health drinks in your local grocery store? I recently purchased a bottle of zero calorie Steaz and on the inside of the...