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A black-capped chickadee endures the rain while sitting on feeder on Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Bemidji. (Jillian Gandsey / Bemidji Pioneer)
Lifestyle

PHOTOS: Spotting the first signs of spring

A kind stranger at the grocery store helped make the day special for 5-year-old Alaina and her mom. Special to The Forum
Family

Kindness makes the ordinary extraordinary

Education

Bemidji Area Arts Endowment seeks grant and scholarship applications

Bishop-elect Daniel Felton listens to applause after a press conference at the Diocese of Duluth on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
Faith

Catholic Church names 10th Duluth bishop

Lifestyle

MASTER GARDENERS: Proper seed spacing allows for maximum growing productivity

Symphony Salad is made with baby arugula, fennel, garbanzo beans, grilled asparagus and topped with crispy prosciutto. Forum file photo
Food

Celebrate spring with these 3 salads

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The Warroad, Minn., port of entry photographed Oct. 5, 2020. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
Travel

Northwest Angle couple denied entry into Manitoba trying to get back home to Minnesota

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News

USDA offers funding to low-income individuals and families

A reader asks if this flowering crab apple tree can be saved after porcupines ate the bark over the winter. Special to The Forum
Home and Garden

Can this porcupine-damaged apple tree be saved?

These Easter lilies were photographed in March 2013 at Shotwells Floral in south Fargo for Don Kinzler's first Forum column. Forum file photo
Home and Garden

Reminiscing about 8 years of garden columns

Nicole Phillips, Kindness is Contagious columnist.
Family

Kindness is like an Easter egg hunt

Lifestyle

MASTER GARDENERS: 7 gardening tips to lower your carbon footprint

Elegant, yet easy to prepare, Sarah's Green Beans Amandine side dish is a bright and flavorful combination of fresh green beans and buttery almonds. Sarah Nasello / The Forum
Food

Fancy but fast, Green Beans Amandine will impress this Easter

A reader asks if they can trim and shape these globe evergreen bushes this spring. Special to The Forum
Home and Garden

How and when to trim and shape evergreen bushes

Sue Bruns' dog Shadow stands on the balance beam of their proverbial obstacle course along the route of their morning walk through the woods. Submitted photo.
Community

GENERATIONS: Teaching old dogs new tricks

A group of trumpeter swans fly over the Mississippi River where it flows out of Lake Bemidji on Friday, March 12, 2021 as the sun sets along the shoreline. (Annalise Braught / Bemidji Pioneer)
Lifestyle

PHOTOS OF THE MONTH: Moving through March

To maintain a shrub’s size and shape, selectively reduce branch length, instead of unnatural shearing. Alyssa Goelzer / The Forum
Home and Garden

This is how you properly prune shrubs

Family

Lake Park, Minnesota, twins born in different months

Presentation Sisters Lorraine Schmaltz (from left), Bernadette Trecker and Rose Lima D'Costa stand with the statue of Mary from the Sacred Heart Convent on Monday, March 22, 2021, in Sister Schmaltz’ south Fargo home. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor
Faith

What's next for the sisters who lived at Fargo's Sacred Heart Convent?

Nicole Phillips, Kindness is Contagious columnist.
Family

Go old school with your kindness

Don and Marilyn Mathsen of rural Oslo renovated Marilyn's family homestead into their home by converting a steel grain bin into living quarters and the additon of adjoining buildings in the style of graineries. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
Home and Garden

Custom-built retreat, incorporating an old steel bin, now a haven on generations-old farmstead near Oslo, Minn.