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  • Milking It for Monarchs

    Nick Simonson|Jul 13, 2020

    Imagine having to choose just one food to live off for half of your life. While I'm certain fried walleye would be a good option, or pizza would work, or even wild rice brats fresh off the grill could sustain about anyone, the hedging exhibited just in this sentence alone shows how difficult it would be. Now imagine you're a monarch butterfly, and you don't have a choice. From birth through its caterpillar phase, the iconic butterfly depends on one food source for all its needs to reach its...

  • Weed Work

    Nick Simonson|Jul 13, 2020

    While midsummer brings its share of weeds to front lawns and gardens requiring some time on the hands and knees cleaning things up, or at least a quick buzz of the tiller in a skillful weaving around those tomato plants, there's other weed work that can be much more enjoyable. This time of the season also brings well-established weedlines into play for fish that utilize them for protection from the stronger and longer-lasting rays of the sun and find the bountiful food web that is developing...

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  • Letter to the Editor: Central North Dakota Steam Threshers acquire new scale model steamer, plan to display it at 2020 show

    Nick Werth|Jul 13, 2020

    Hello Transcript readers, I was in New Rockford for the Fourth of July this past weekend, and I'm writing to tell a little more about the little steam tractor that we had on a trailer in the parade. We were representing Central North Dakota Steam Threshers Reunion, which is still planned to go on Sept. 25-27 as nearly normal as can be with the current chaos in our world involving COVID-19. My name is Nick Werth, and I am the grandson of Ole and Isabelle Aslakson, who were both longtime New...