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Upside Down Under
By Marvin Baker, a new weekly column in The Kenmare News
This history won't repeat itself...
Sixteen years ago this month, myself and my partner Dennis Ihringer, released the book, “Dakota Doughboy, the Otto Ihringer Story.”
Posted 6/20/17 (Tue) read more »
A passive reflective idea...
Some years ago I ran across some information out of Utah that indicated homeowners on the west side of the Rocky Mountains were using passive reflector antennas to leap frog the TV stations from Salt Lake City over the mountains.
Posted 6/20/17 (Tue) read more »
'I've got the AM radio blues'...
Nobody talks about AM radio anymore. Sometimes you have to wonder why AM stations are still on the air? Who is listening?
Posted 6/20/17 (Tue) read more »
Where have all the teachers gone?..
When my wife and I visited Florida in February, I discovered something very profound.
Posted 6/20/17 (Tue) read more »
Tobacco can coughs up old bucks
The above headline was used on one of the first articles I wrote as a professional journalist at the Emmons County Record in 1989.
Posted 5/09/17 (Tue) read more »
Revisiting the flood of '97...
It was this week in 1997 that the Langdon Community Center was completely full of people who were displaced from the catastrophic flood that hit Grand Forks.
Posted 5/02/17 (Tue) read more »
From Grafton to Grafton
Have you ever thought about two or more places that have the same name?
Posted 4/25/17 (Tue) read more »
Facebook v. journalistic integrity
There’s been a lot of talk about Facebook lately and how it helps us “communicate.” We use it for just about everything except combining grain.
Posted 4/18/17 (Tue) read more »
Where in the World have you been?...
Ten years ago Kenmare News Publisher Terry Froseth implemented an idea he had been thinking about for a while.
Posted 4/11/17 (Tue) read more »
Don't lose sight of the small towns...
Back in the 1980s and into the early ‘90s, I had this quirky habit of visiting small towns for no apparent reason.
Posted 4/04/17 (Tue) read more »