Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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Feb. 20, 2019 — The professional historians at our colleges and universities and of course the State Historical Society do a great job of unearthing and preserving our state’s history, and passing it along to the rest of us… in the classroom, at the State Heritage Center, at one of our historical sights or in several other ways. But there have been many North Dakotans who, although they are not directly employed in the history business, do a great job in preserving and telling our story. One of those people is Roy P. Johnson, who was born on Ma...
April 3, 2018 — Today’s story is just a quick glimpse into the life of North Dakota homesteading woman, Adeline Elizabeth Iverson Aplin. In her later years, she wrote down her life’s story as best she could recall, because she wanted her sons to enjoy and relive her early years, in North Dakota especially. Adeline was born into a Norwegian family of 13 children in the north central Iowa town of Kensett, population about 900. In 1896, Adeline’s brother, Lafe, and a friend, an orphan boy by the name of Charlie Aplin, left Kensett for North D...
Dear Editor: It should come as no surprise that Oklahoma oil man, Harold Hamm, is set to be national finance campaign chair for Republican Kevin Cramer’s bid for the U.S. Senate. After all, thanks to Republican-led tax cuts for out-of-state corporations over the past several ND legislative sessions and oil tax cuts in the waning days of the 2015 session, Hamm, through his company, Continental Resources, has extracted enough money from North Dakota taxpayers to finance Cramer’s campaign on his own. Hamm has never shied away from the lim...
