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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Recently, Seventh District U.S. Congress Representative Michelle Fischbach updated us on her work in Washington. The Republican, representing the Pelican Lakes area and...

I am writing to ask my friends and neighbors to take action to keep Social Security solvent and to keep the Medicare options that are currently available. I strongly oppose...

It seems it was just New Year’s Day, and now we are nearing the end of January. Where does the time go?From the early stages of childhood to our adult years, we all have...

Just when you thought we had a shot at “all green energy” by mid-century—along comes electric vehicles and Artificial Intelligence. Electricity demand is bound to...

In the United States, we have become accustomed to hearing about “the changing of the guard” due to local, county, state, and federal elections.So,...