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POST MILLS, Vt. — There are legions of clam chowder devotees out there. Some are transplanted Dakotans who live on the seafood-rich coasts;...

Several years ago when my mother-in-law awoke in the night and feared she was having a heart attack, she got out of bed, dressed, packed a small...

Are you on the treadmill? Do you wake up each day knowing there are more things to be done than could actually be accomplished? Does it feel...

There are never enough days in September for farmers, ranchers, and pennant-chasing baseball teams. Every day, whether spent in a combine, pasture...

This past week, legislators were called back to Pierre for a special session, and it does not bode well for your family or business checkbooks....

The earth, relatively speaking, is round, not flat. Had I written that sentence back in my days of news reporting with The Associated Press,...

Mitchell Technical Institute is doing a lot of things right. That’s according to Mike Sprang, who has a longstanding association with the now-50-year-old...

My kids got as much of an education from the big yellow school bus as they did from the school that they rode the bus to. They experienced some...

FARGO — I'll never forget the day. In many ways, it was a day like many others. Blue sky. The sounds and smells of lawn-mowing in the distance....

LYME, N.H. — My quest for the best New England clam chowder started when I was young. Trips to the Connecticut coast or to dining rooms...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. — The window is open in this house tonight, letting the summer out and the cool autumn air in. It's dark before 10 p.m....

About one month ago, on Aug. 14, a front-page headline of your newspaper read, "Daily Republic to go digital on Mondays." The accompanying story...

While some people say their world shrinks as they grow older, I'm finding the world is the same and I'm shrinking. Back in high school in Chamberlain,...

While U.S. farmers and ranchers spent August fretting over escalating tariffs and retreating markets, two ag policy experts used the month to...

Have you ever had kindness show up just when you needed it? If your answer if yes, when you've finished your morning coffee, please send me your...