Letter from the Publisher

Oh, what a beautiful Music Fest it was! The sun came out as scheduled, and everyone was in their places bright and early, and the crowd didn’t disappoint. The food and drinks, the shopping, the games, visiting with old friends, the music, the cars, what more can one ask for?

Letter from the Editor:

How fun was this year’s Music Fest?!? If you didn’t make it, you certainly missed out on a good time! Hats off to the Chamber of Commerce for hosting such a well organized and fun event.

Son of the bees: Part one

By Bob Simmons, CEO, Simmons Multimedia Mike Allan is the News Director for our companies KXPO AM-FM and KAUJ FM at Grafton, N.D. Mike also writes for our sister newspaper, Valley News & Views, at Drayton, N.D. In Mike’s spare-time, he and his son in-law keep bees and sell the honey, a sweet side...

Needed: Eye drops and windshield washer fluid

By Bob Simmons, CEO, Simmons Multimedia The late Don ‘Hoppy’ Haugen was one of Langdon’s ‘movers and shakers’ when I arrived in town in January of 1990.

Letter from the Editor:

I’m letting out a big uffda as I sit down to write this week’s column. It’s Tuesday, but I still feel like I’m playing catch up from a busy weekend.

Letter from the Publisher

The lake treated us very well last weekend. There was plenty of sun and very little wind.

The Morning Stroll and Cuppa Joe: The joy of missing out

This past weekend, Greg and Gage, along with five other guys, went to Canada for the annual guy’s fishing weekend. In the past it has been Greg and a few of his college buddies, but this year, a few young guys were invited along, including Gage.

Of spleen splitters, cherry bombs and whistling bungholes

The Fourth of July at our lake place is a lot quieter since our neighbors Bob and Lainey Toso sold their place a few years ago. The Tosos are former educators, Bob being the former school superintendent in Jamestown and Lainey, a teacher in Valley City.

Construction zone now and then

Yay! It’s happening! Our street is getting paved as I type this. It’s very exciting! My knees and hips are looking forward to walking on streets sans three-foot-wide potholes and football sized chunks of pavement hindering the way.

Letter from the Publisher

If you’re not on my Facebook page, let me tell you about some fun we had last week. First, let’s see how good your memory is.