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Young Pelican band students in honor band

A trio of Pelican Rapids band students, Logan Johnson, Tydan Dokken, and Beckett Satter, spent a day learning more about music at the Minnesota...

$602 raised by Viking elementary students for American Heart...

Pelican Viking Elementary students have again demonstrated their commitment to a worthy cause. Six students and one staff member raised $602.17 for...

Furniture man Knutson believed to have first TV set in Pelican, 1950

100 years ago, March 5, 1925• School Entertainment Very UniqueFriday night, the last number of the Junior class lyceum course was given in the high school auditorium. Miss...

Guest speaker Michael Bloom, left, with Joe Clauson, one of the founders of the “SEE First” recognition banquet Mar. 2 at the Barn at Dunvilla.

Bloom is a former Fargo cop, who operates a jail ministry and motivational speaking enterprise.

Area ‘life-savers’ earn red carpet treatment

In the emergency response business, you are “called into chaos” where “crazy is common”... How on earth do you convince young people to consider...

Pelican FFA team places at region

The Pelican Rapids FFA Horse Judging team competed at regionals on Feb. 26 at the University of Minnesota-Crookston. The team took third place,...

Speech team returns with honors from Battle Lake meet

The Pelican Rapids High School speech team traveled to Battle Lake on March 1. Max Koch participated in Discussion. In Dramatic Interpretation, Casper Schleske placed 3rd....

The first cover of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” in 1925 features the artwork of Francis Cugat. “Celestial Eyes,” the name of the painting, is inarguably one of the most recognizable book covers ever created.
If you want an original first-edition copy of the book, you’ll need Gatsby-level wealth. When sold with its original dust jacket, “The Great Gatsby” can be one of the most expensive rare books on the market.
The jacket art for Fitzgerald’s “Great American Novel” is one of the most famous book-cover designs of all time. But dust jackets get lost and are easily damaged. A first-edition “Gatsby” without the jacket might cost only a few thousand dollars. But a copy with a decent quality original jacket, with its unusual artwork, sold some years ago for $250,000. By one assessment, there may be only five Gatsby first-editions on the market that have their book jackets still intact.

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝔾𝕒𝕥𝕤𝕓𝕪 𝖦𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗍 𝖠𝗆𝖾𝗋𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝗇𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗅 𝖺 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧 ‘𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗆𝖾’ 𝖺𝗍 𝖯𝖾𝗅𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗇...

Every few decades, there is another “Great Gatsby” awakening—as the distinctly All-American piece of literature again hits the big silver screen or...

Pelican students on UND honor lists

The University of North Dakota (UND) has released its honors lists for the 2024 fall semester, including three Pelican students: Emry Cossette, UND fall 2024 Dean’s...

An art depiction of what a fire station might appear at Dunn Township Hall.

The Dunn facility, located near Dunvilla, near the north end of Lake Lizzie, and
Lakeland General Store
neighborhood.

𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐭. 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐝𝐚, 𝐋𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐢𝐞, 𝐏𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧...

A satellite fire station in the heart of the lakes area northeast of Pelican Rapids has been proposed in Dunn Township. Improved emergency response...

𝐷𝑜 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑅𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛? 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆’𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗿. 𝟮,...

With area First Responders being honored at the third annual banquet Mar. 2 at the Barn at Dunvilla, we thought we’d go back in the files and...

This photo of swimmers on Lake Melissa
is believed to be dated 1910.

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧...𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧? 𝖯𝖾𝗅𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝖼𝗂𝗍𝗒...

Even at a respectable wage of $17.50 an hour, the new aquatic center in Sherin Memorial Park still needs lifeguards. A lot of them.It’s hard to...

Pelican earns state school board honor

The Pelican Rapids Independent School District 548 board received a District Award of Distinction. The Minnesota School Boards Association (MSBA)...

𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 ‘𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀’ 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝖤𝗌𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖺𝗍𝖾𝖽 $𝟥𝟤 𝗆𝗂𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝗂𝗇...

How is pre-planning going in your life? Are you a pre-planner?Experts tell us that the difference between planning and pre-planning is that when planning, you do your own...

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴? 𝗜𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿...

It’s often true that it takes money to make money. It’s also true that it takes money to get money when it comes to grants for community projects. To meet the criteria for...

Bev Woessner, seated at the ticket desk during a recent Pelican Rapids High School basketball game.

𝖳𝗂𝖼𝗄𝖾𝗍 𝗍𝖺𝗄𝖾𝗋 𝗌𝗎𝗉𝗋𝖾𝗆𝖾 𝗕𝗲𝘃 𝗪𝗼𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲...

Bev Woessner has been monitoring the Pelican Rapids High School sports ticket booth for 27 years.Bev and her husband Ben came to Pelican Rapids...

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