10/03/2017
The lucky winners of the Gonvick Pumpkin Day Car Show were announced on Saturday, September 30. Each car show participant received a ballot to vote for the top five cars of their choice. The ballots were tabulated and the top five vote getters received $100 each. Money for the event was sponsored...
09/26/2017
The Navy Retirement Ceremony is a long-standing tradition meant to celebrate the conclusion of a successful military career, to bid farewell to a shipmate as he departs from active service to rejoin the civilian community.
Steven M. Richards joined that group in June of this year with a ceremony...
09/26/2017
Gonvick residents Cheri and John Gunvalson and their son Jacob will travel to Washington, D.C. to attend a Federal Drug Administration, FDA public forum on September 28th that will help decide if a treatment their son is on will be approved in the U.S. Their son was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular...
09/19/2017
ST. PAUL – Governor Mark Dayton and Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Commissioner Shawntera Hardy today joined leaders from Digi-Key, a global electronic component distributor in Thief River Falls, to break ground on the company’s new $200 million expansion project.
“I am...
09/12/2017
RED LAKE - At a ceremony held at the Red Lake Nation College on Saturday, August 19, 2017, Red Lake Band member Major Delvin L. Schmunk, retired from the United States Air Force after serving 20 years.
Schmunk is the son of LaVonne “Mickey” Schmunk. He is a 1988 graduate of Gonvick-Trail High...
09/06/2017
#UMDProud | August 23, 2017 | Cheryl Reitan
Kelsey's morning commute takes her about an hour. She leaves her rented room in a Japanese family home and travels to the U.S. Consulate General, Osaka-Kobe. On the way to work, she stands in the train car, crushed against the window surrounded by...
08/29/2017
Office of the Governor
130 State Capitol
St. Paul MN 55155
Enbridge Line 3
Replacement Project
PUC Docket Numbers CN-14-916 and PPL-15-137
Dear Governor Dayton and Commissioner Rothman,
The proposed Line 3 Replacement Project (L3R) is a vital energy infrastructure project for Minnesota and the...
08/15/2017
What would happen if the front page of your newspaper contained no news? What would the community do? Would they miss it? What would people in town talk about? How would they react?
More than 200 newspapers across the State of Minnesota will publish no news on their front pages during the week of...
08/08/2017
Story and photo courtesy Chris Murphy in the Fargo Forum.
Ryan Strem, 38, glowed as another Tuesday night of baseball at Strem Field was approaching. He was up at 4 a.m. to make sure the sprinkler system was keeping the grass in the outfield a perfect green. The corn stalks behind the grass stood...
08/08/2017
Editor’s Note: Story and photo courtesy of the St. James Plandealer newspaper and Troy Krause.
Had one seen Glenn and Sara Madsen’s bucket list prior to this past March, the words Kenya, or even Africa for that matter, would not have been there.
Yet, this past spring the two of them spent a month...