Eighteen American Legion Family members from Minnesota traveled to Washington, D.C., this week and heard directly from VA Secretary Doug Collins. He spoke with Legionnaires...

When you buy a car, you sign a contract. The same goes for your mortgage, cell phone plan, and car insurance. You receive a service or good in exchange for a promise of...

Many of us have had measles, a fever, and a rash for a few days. But most of us haven’t because vaccines became widely available in the late 60s. In medical school, in the...

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Read All About It!!Most of us can remember years gone by of reading our favorite newspaper and then noticing that the printer’s...

It seems like we’re living in a topsy-turvy world where up is down and down is up, like an episode from “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” or “The Twilight Zone”-- like the earth...

Although the Pelican Rapids High School 2025 Commencement Exercises are still a few months away, some young women and men always walk out the high...

Things are looking up in downtown Pelican Rapids—and it’s not even spring yet.The opening of the Brew Haven coffee shop, just in time for a stretch of cold, sub-zero...

Physicians depend on real-time, accurate information about current health threats. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is the foundation of our national health defense...

I enjoyed the article by Rev. Devlyn Brooks (Pelican Press, Faith column, published Jan. 30, on the subject of deportation.) I was reminded that my maternal grandfather...

Tiny little snowflakes, in the air so high,Are you little angels floating in the sky?Robed so white and spotless, flying like a dove, Are you little creatures, from the...

I’ve been reading about the Tariffs because of drugs and all the hoo-ra that goes with it.Everybody is still ducking or ignoring the real problem.It’s simple, At least the...

More than 120 years ago, my great-grandfather Alexander William Brooks Sr., his wife Mary Ann, and their first three children crossed the Canadian border into Minnesota,...

Many of you, like me, are old enough to remember the oil crisis of the 1970s when cars were lined up around blocks to get gas during a time of insecurity and shortage. Some...

I never thought government waste, fraud, and abuse could be so refreshing.  I’m speaking about the hearings in St. Paul, led by our State Sen. Jordan Rasmusson. (See story...

Thank you for your tribute on the death of our pastor, Jim Greene (Louis Hoglund column published Dec. 26 in the Press). I have reread the article many times, and it still...