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The idyllic life in Red Lake County

There was nothing really new in CBS On the Road correspondent Steve Hartman's piece this week on Chris Ingraham, who moved to Red Lake County after declaring it the worst place to live in America. But it's another chance to see the high falutin' East Coast media pay attention to us, even if it is to profile a high falutin' East Coast media guy living the good life in flyover country.
by Bob Collins

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UND’s ‘Beer Grandma’ dead at 90

UND’s ‘Beer Grandma’ dead at 90

She was Beth Delano, 90 a Northwood, N.D., woman who has been going to UND men's hockey games since 1947, the Grand Forks Herald says. Her hockey fame, however, was more recent. The big scoreboard video caught her drinking a beer during a break in the action, to the roaring approval of the crowd.
by Bob Collins

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Appeals court won’t stop Stillwater school closings

The 2016 decision to close Marine, Withrow, and Oak Park elementary schools came just a year after voters in the district approved a levy and bond to build a new school. But a new school superintendent said the demographics of ISD 834 dictated the closings, which have split the communities the district serves.
by Bob Collins

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The time a “C” student changed the Constitution

Gregory Watson was so unhappy with the 'C' he received from teacher Sharon Waite, he started working to advance the subject of his paper: The proposed 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that hadn't garnered enough states' approval to be added.
by Bob Collins

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Champion golfer no match for a TV viewer with email

Champion golfer no match for a TV viewer with email

Golf is struggling and an incident over the weekend explains why. Golf, and its fans, are insufferable.
by Bob Collins

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Do millennials want women to stay home?

Would younger generations be happier if they were back in the '50s?
by Bob Collins

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N.D. teen’s prom dress honors families fighting cancer

N.D. teen’s prom dress honors families fighting cancer

The first fitting of a prom dress for a North Dakota teen didn't go all that well. 'It was pretty scratchy at first," junior Gretchen Ivers tells the Grand Forks Herald. That's what happens when you make a prom dress out of pop tops.
by Bob Collins

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Because of Larry Schanno, vets get to go fishing

Schanno built a pond on the Baptism River in Finland and stocked it with brook trout and rainbow trout for one reason: so the old-timers at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Silver Bay could go fishing.
by Bob Collins

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