As the year’s final chapter draws to a close, we find ourselves slowing down — just a bit — to reflect on all that 2024 has brought to our community and to the pages of the...

If you answered, “Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge” (Patches O’Houlihan in the movie Dodgeball), you’d be right… and cool. But you’d only get half credit because there are...

American Indian prayer leader Delvin Rogers reverently packed the tobacco into his sacred peace pipe and then methodically set about offering prayers to each of the four...

We made the big time...The New York Times!Pelican Rapids, Frazee, Rothsay, Fergus Falls, Vergas—plus a host of other Minnesota, North Dakota, and...

One: How much a dollar can actually buy is more important than how much one actually makes.Two: The more money you make, the higher the tax you pay! They don’t have to...

In two weeks, the days leading up to Christmas Day will be over. Much of what will remain are the memories of bags of crumpled wrapping paper and a refrigerator full of...

Gee whiz...I’m having a difficult time finding the words to describe the holiday glow in Pelican Rapids and its “Peteyville” lights displays. Holy cow...or... holy...

Pelican Rapids received an interesting mention in a recent column, published in the Minnesota Star Tribune newspaper.  The thrust of the column was “The slow, urgent work...

China is the world's largest polluter—yet it almost leads the world in clean-renewable energy technology. The US isn't even close. And we are buying China's products...

As Thanksgiving approaches, families are preparing menus, and wild rice is being recommended as a flavorful upgrade to traditional sides. Known for...

Martin Luther enjoyed a mug of beer now and then. So, if the father of the Lutheran church gulped down beers and sang hymns—it must be OK for...

Our church held its annual fall auction this past Sunday, an event organized and hosted by our women’s group nearly every year for nearly five decades. The event always...

These past seven months have brought about much change to the landscape of Pelican Rapids.This change began on April 15, 2024, when construction workers began excavating...

Football is changing. So are baseball, hockey, basketball, and all the other team sports. They’re getting younger, both in leadership and the makeup of teams. They’re...

After all of the breathless headlines of two years of electioneering, you know where I saw the Holy Spirit in action on Tuesday?It wasn’t in the names on the ballot, which...