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Last Tuesday Keith Melius was flying into Jamestown, North Dakota. “I wasn’t quite there yet, and I didn’t quite make it,” he said. Read More »

Webster Area Development Corporation (WADC) announced that interim director Melissa Fose will take over as executive director. Read More »

Loren Welch hadn’t realized that he would retrace so many of the same steps in life that his great-grandfather had in the late 1800s. Read More »

Stacy Hadrick has been chosen as the new Faulk County Economic Development Coordinator. Read More »

Esther Patterson’s life philosophy is pretty simple. “Just keep going,” said the long-time Britton resident, who will be celebrating her 100th birthday on Sunday. “There’s no secret. I’ve had my ups and downs, but I wouldn’t change anything. You can’t go back.” Read More »

“I’ve always wanted to return. I enjoy the people, the environment, the lifestyle. Knowing that I wanted to return helped shape my decisions,” said Tom Sannes. “It all came together very well for me. I can’t complain. I’ve been lucky.” Read More »

Jeff Conly of Fort Worth, Texas, has high ambitions. He wants to bike across the known world, and he’s starting with the 48 contiguous states. Read More »

“I don’t know if it was the dry weather last year or what, but in talking to other breeders at the farm show this year, we’ve all noticed a lot more single births this year with our herds. We usually have about 50 percent of our births being twins, but this year only about one third of them are twin births,” stated Wayne Fuller of Clark. Read More »

One of the hardest things about planning a new house or a remodeling job is visualizing what it will look like in the end. That’s where BDA Home Designs and Brock Abeln can help. Abeln started his new company a year ago, but has long had an interest in the building trade. He worked with Dick Seurer while growing up and took classes with Don Donley in high school. At one time he had aspirations of attending college to be an architect. All that changed the summer of 2003 when an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Read More »

The Rev. Tim Koch of churches in Cresbard and Wecota has delved deep into Manuscript 2193, a 10th-century Bible, as his master's thesis project. “I have found that the further that you delve into the text, the deeper understanding you seek, the more faithful you become and rather than that faith becoming simpler, it becomes infinitely more complex," Koch said. Read More »