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December 12, 2013

Making a present

Five year old Mikayleigh Cloud is assisted by Grandma Trudy English making a present for her mother during Santa’s Workshop. The event was...

news / local December 12, 2013 - 11:35pm

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March 1, 2013

Evergreen hosts open house

Evergreen Youth & Family Services celebrated an open house Feb. 26 with tours of its new offices and apartments followed by a short program. Becky Schueller, left, executive director of Evergreen, and Rebecca Hoffman, Evergreen Youth Services program director, honored Bob Whelan...

celebrations March 1, 2013 - 3:20pm

Paul Ericsson: Something for everyone at the library

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 eighth-grade children from 12:30-3:00 p.m. Saturday. Songwriter Paul Spring will lead...

columns March 1, 2013 - 3:12pm

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February 28, 2013

Obama to urge court to overturn gay marriage ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Thursday will ask the Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage and take a skeptical view of similar bans elsewhere, according to a person familiar with the government's legal filing in the California case. While the...

news February 28, 2013 - 4:59pm

February 26, 2013

‘Tears were frozen to his face’: Bemidji bus driver resigns after forcing child to walk home in the cold

WILTON – A 6-year-old boy was forced to walk a quarter-mile home in freezing temperatures last week after a school bus driver refused to let the child off the bus at his house. According to Daryl Bohn and Amber Thayer, their younger son, Darrion, tried to disembark the bus after...

news / local February 26, 2013 - 9:57pm

Evergreen holds open house at new site

Evergreen Youth & Family Services held an open house Tuesday afternoon at its new site at 610 Patriot Drive NW. Blessings and a formal program...

news / local February 26, 2013 - 9:30pm

February 25, 2013

Pioneer Editorial: Cheers and Jeers

Treatment facility seeks to expand Restore House of Bemidji is proposing a chemical dependency residential treatment facility in Helga Township. The planned nine-bed facility for men would allow the Bemidji home to be converted into a women’s house. Between the two homes, 15 people...

opinion / editorial February 25, 2013 - 11:54pm

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Open house set today for new Evergreen facility

BEMIDJI – Evergreen Youth & Family Services will host an open house today to celebrate its new site. In December, Evergreen relocated its headquarters and youth drop-in center to 610 Patriot Drive NW, also establishing six onsite youth supportive housing units. An open house...

news / local February 25, 2013 - 11:43pm

DPS program gives over 4,500 car seats to Minnesota families

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Thousands of Minnesota families have benefited from a program that provides free car seats to those in need. The Department of Public Safety says that over the last two years it has provided 4,591 car seats through a program that ensures low-income families...

news / region February 25, 2013 - 4:44pm

February 22, 2013

John Eggers: So how is February treating you?

“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 made me think about what I was doing and what was happening around us. But what did it really mean? My wife, Kathy, recently...

columns February 22, 2013 - 4:22pm

February 20, 2013

Younger children featured in budget plan

ST. PAUL – Adding money to early childhood education and all-day kindergarten programs, as Gov. Mark Dayton suggests, is important to Minnesota’s future, the state House education finance leader says. “Those two programs really pay dividends into the future,” Rep. Paul Marquart,...

news February 20, 2013 - 12:41am

February 15, 2013

Donation will help Red Lake improve dental access for kids

RED LAKE – PrimeWest Health presented a $107,463 check to Red Lake Comprehensive Health last month to improve dental access for children on the Red Lake Reservation. James Przybilla, chief executive officer for PrimeWest, and Matt Magnuson, PrimeWest director of membership and program...

news / business February 15, 2013 - 4:00pm

John Eggers: Lent: Don’t give up, try taking on renewed purpose

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, so dreary and so long. The drive home also seemed longer even though we just lived a few blocks from church. My...

columns February 15, 2013 - 3:52pm

February 14, 2013

Hundreds at Capitol rally want gay marriage

ST. PAUL – Three mothers of gay men joined hundreds of others in the Minnesota Capitol on Thursday with one goal. “It’s important that they be treated equally,” Mabel Galvin said. Government should treat all citizens the same, added Kay Allen. And Therese Presley said government...

news February 14, 2013 - 11:41pm

February 10, 2013

NCFS receives donations from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

BEMIDJI – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its missionaries donated items to the Northwoods Coalition for Family Safety on Jan. 18. Items donated included diapers, clothing, household items, cleaning supplies, hygiene items and care kits. The NCFS said it was...

celebrations February 10, 2013 - 11:08pm

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