Articles from the March 9, 2024 edition
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Classy Lady Pulls the Retirement Pin
by Jeff Olsen Diane Roseen, whose age is not important here, was usually the first person you met inside the Roseau County Attorney's Office entry. She always had a smile to greet you and that was...
HELPP, Inc. Receives A $10,000 Donation From Farmers Union Oil
by Laurel Latham HELPP (Help Ease Local People's Pain) was blessed with a badly needed donation from Farmers Union Oil of Warroad on Friday, February, 23. "We applied for a grant and were privileged...
Oak Manor Trailer Park Residents Are Fed Up With Living Conditions
by Ryan Honl Driving through Oak Manor Trailer Park two miles east of Roseau, what quickly becomes apparent are the abandoned mobile homes and bumpy muddy roads. Some residents have a lot to say...
Write On: Poems by: Julia Dvergsten
Poems by: Julia Dvergsten Roseau Community School Mrs. Olsen’s Sophomore English Headphones I come in many shapes and sizes I could be white, black, blue, pink, any color you could think. I get lost, cut, thrown, and tangled. Wet, dry, blown, and m... Full story
Daylight Savings Time
Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, March 10, 2024, and will last until Nov. 3, 2024, when we switch back to standard time. The time change means an "extra hour of light" in...
When Don't We Get Into Trouble?
Trouble, possibly terminal trouble, will happen to a life who is not lived towards God. "Is any one of you in trouble (afflicted)? He should pray Matthew 11:28,30. One of the nice things about this...
Donald Trump Trumps The Field In PNP Vote
by Jeff Olsen Late on Tuesday evening close to 11 p.m., the staff and others walked out of the Roseau County Auditor's Office having experienced a meager voter turnout. It was the November PNP and if...
Don't Kick the Car
I still remember the name of the color, Glencoe Green, from Chrysler. It was beautiful, deep metallic green, so dark that most people thought the car was black, but in the sun, oh, did that car sparkl...
With Hult and other amazing characters
I run into so many characters that I can sit back and stay relatively sober while wondering, "Who is this stumblebum?" On Monday evening, here came a text from a world traveler who had flown down to...
Thank you Roseau and Warroad
Bro was kind and made my life easy this week. Or was he?!? I think we all know he wasn’t really thinking about me and giving me almost no space to write much. He had wrestling on his mind and Hult. So it was either out of the kindness of good o... Full story
So Little Time
Whoopie! We get to spring ahead again this weekend. Our government can’t even leave our clocks alone. As previously suggested, if you can’t decide, then split the difference. Spring ahead a half hour this spring and do not fall back this fall. Jus...
Look Out for the Oak Manor Kids
I spent the first couple years of my life in this world at Oak Manor Trailer Court just East of Roseau. My earliest memory is my dad and brother firing off model rockets in the farm field on the...
Frank Raymond Marvin, 82
Warroad- Frank Raymond Marvin, husband, brother, father, grandfather, businessman, friend, and one of the most thoughtful men we all knew, died March 2, 2024 in his beloved hometown of Warroad. He...
Thomas Wayne Halvorson, 71
Roseau- Tom Halvorson passed away on February 24, 2024 at the Warroad Senior Living Center from the effects of dementia. He was born in Roseau on February 23, 1953 to Taylor and Edith (Lingren)...
Irene Ivadel (Gunderson) Foster, 82
Badger- Irene Foster passed away at Oakland Park Communities, Thief River Falls on Friday, February 29, 2024 at the age of 82. She was born at home in Badger to Franklin and Minnie (Thompson)...
Brownies
The topic has been debated since shortly after the discovery of chocolate; should brownies and chocolate chip cookies have nuts or no nuts? I think they should have nuts – but walnuts, pecans, or almo...
50 years ago… Speed limit raises
5 years ago – Mar. 9, 2019 Max Wilson, the son of Mark and Aimee Wilson and an eighth grader at Roseau High School, was notified that he was a semi finalist eligible to compete in the 2019 National G...
Grapplers Make Good Copy On and Off the Mat
by Jeff Olsen His nickname should be T-Rex. A week ago Friday just before noon, a report arrived from the Xcel Energy Center from Gary Przekwas, who was covering the State Wrestling Tournament for... Full story
