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by Gunnar Lund, English 7, Mrs. Didrikson   One day my cousin Boe and I were walking in the woods when we stumbled upon an old abandoned shack. When we walked up to it we knew that it had been aband...

If you're a parent reading this, or maybe even a grandparent, can you remember your child's first word (or words)? Perhaps you wrote them down in their "baby book." Maybe it was "da-da," or "ma-ma."...

We are an immigrant nation. At the beginning of the 20th Century, the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) didn't much care for the hordes of invading Irish, Italians, Slavs, Greeks, and Germans...

January is time for Christmas in Grand Forks with Kyle's family. I have decided that this needs to be the last year of a January Christmas. Once Christmas is over and the two biggest issues of the...

5 years ago – Jan. 17, 2015 Kellie Parnow, a senior at Badger High School, placed third in the Minnesota VFW’s 9th District for her entry in the VFW Voice of Democracy audio-essay competition....

by Sofia Lisell, English 7, Mrs. Didrikson This is a story about me and my friends at my house making Ramen noodles before volleyball practice. We just got back from Sophia Olson's house because that...

It's early Wednesday morning and I'm wrapping things up. Ordinarily, I've written this headache by Monday night and then I can breathe a sigh of relief. Or, just swear at myself. I hate this column....

Sixteen weeks of chemo didn't honestly sound like a long time. I mean it's basically just four months of your life which isn't much. But, you add chemo to those not very long sixteen weeks of your lif...

Christmas is over! Have you noticed? So much preparation, from shopping to cooking. It can be hard to wait for Christmas, but for some, even harder to lose the weight after Christmas! Then there's...

by Jayce Schneider, English 7, Mrs. Didrikson Third Grade ER Visit I was in third grade (just before the Christmas of 2014) when I started developing a peculiar, red, rash on my legs, on top of that,...

5 years ago – Jan. 3, 2015 December 18 winners of $250 in Roseau Dough in the Holiday Fantasy Contest were Kristi O’Donnell, Mary Hayes and Maryanne Heine. The Roseau Ram boys pucksters were defea...

Beautiful! It's Sunday, it's snowing, and I'm not in church. I attend church in the pines. There is no building, no preacher, and no collection plate. I just step outside and talk to God - mano a...

It's here...the NEW YEAR! We all wait for the New Year to make New Year's Resolutions to better ourselves. Or at least I have done it and thought about it again this year. Why do we wait for a new...

Have you ever had someone say to you when life wasn't going particularly well: "Keep looking up"? That's kinda what David is saying in the first part of Psalm 19. The New Living Translation puts...

by Makaila Marquette, English 7, Mrs. Didrikson My Journey to the E.R Have you ever wondered if loving your dog so much could get you sent to the E.R.? My campfire story is about when I had to take a... Full story

Quick, take a letter, Sofia. She's my newest secretary, an attractive lass who speaks very good Spanish - and better English than most of us hillbillies up here. She never says, "I seen you...

I hope everyone had a great Christmas with your family and friends. Ours was eventful as usual, but this holiday can go down in the books as a first for no E.R. trips or fires! I would also would...

For all the champs and chumps in this world, I could play the curmudgeon and include a whole column on who's aboard Bro's Coal Train, which is loaded with Lumps for Chumps. Oh, good Lord, where do I... Full story

It is our Christmas issue this week and it’s 22 pages!, I’m used to 12 to 14 pages and this was a bit of a crunch to get done in a timely manner. Thanks to the great staff, we did it. Also,... Full story