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I am so very glad to hear about the team effort put in by Park Rapids Police, Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force, Headwaters Safe Trails FBI Task Force, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Border Patrol, FBI and West Central Drug Task Force in doing...

I just returned from the Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Summit, which brought together the best minds in the country (and some international experts), and am truly concerned about how climate change and global warming are allowing ever-more dangerous AIS to be able to survive in...

People I meet ask me, "What's going on in Park Rapids? I thought you guys loved clean water?" I tell them we do. We just made a mistake by electing people who don't care. The question is, why are our legislative District 2B Rep. Steve Green and our District 2 Sen. Paul Utke the exceptions...

In addition to the usual tired responses, the recent mass shooting provoked an outcry from young people themselves demanding that their government hear them and take action to address their understandable fears. Their fears are our fears. School administrators, law enforcement and...

Would the person who "borrowed" the San Damiano cross from Sister Marquite Smith Chapel at CHI St. Joseph's Health on Jan. 22 please return the cross? It has very special, sentimental value to the Catholic families of the hospital. It is the only Catholic item in the chapel. Please...

I am appalled by the latest school shooting in Florida. I became angry when mental illness was cited as the reason. People with mental health issues are far less likely to engage in gun violence. Higher correlations exist with domestic violence and being a victim of violence.

"Minnesota Nice" is alive and well right here in Park Rapids. On Tuesday, while I was snowblowing my mother's driveway, I found myself looking at the sky. Within seconds, cars stopped to check on me. One very nice lady, who was a nurse, checked to see that I wasn't hurt, and a nice...

On Jan. 5, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) held its annual Roundtable. Normally, this features sessions on key topics and programs that have come up in the past year, and they look forward to those areas the DNR plans to focus on in the coming year. This year's...

On Dec. 10, Holly and I fell through the ice on Little Sand Lake around 3:45 p.m. on our way to our favorite fishing spot. It was a very dangerous situation, as you can imagine, and we were not able to pull ourselves back onto the ice pack. We clung to the ice pack. Were it not for...

The recent appointment of Tina Smith as Minnesota's interim U.S. senator was definitely a disappointment. Her very strong connection to Planned Parenthood does not bode well for any expectation that she would protect the sanctity of life.

This week in the Park Rapids Enterprise, I have read two stories of people falling through the ice. Two were rescued, and one lost his life.

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruled Dec. 7 to reject the Minnesota Department of Commerce's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Enbridge's proposed Line 3 pipeline replacement project. The ruling is a setback for a project that would provide a $2 billion economic...