Family

BEMIDJI -- The city of Bemidji Parks and Recreation Department will host a Winter Family Formal from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Sanford Center, 1111 Event Center Drive NE. Cost is $37, which will include admission for a parent and child along with dinner, a special picture and...

Everyone’s asking whether Joe Biden will run for president, but he’s already done something more important. He made me a better dad. After building a business and fiddling around with writing columns, my wife and I moved from Texas to the D.C. area a year ago because I got what...

BEMIDJI -- The city’s annual Daddy Daughter Dance will take place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Sanford Center, Gate Four, 1111 Event Center Drive. Cost is $37 for a dad and daughter and $20 for each additional child. Admission includes appetizers, picture...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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,...