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Think back to your time in school. For some, this will be recent and for others the memories may be from further in the past, but regardless of the time and whether or not you liked school, I am willing to bet that you still remember at least one teacher who made you feel welcome,...

My name is John King and last month on Earth Day/Science Day I held up a sign on Highway 71 in Park Rapids that said "Climate Change Denial is Science Denial." A reader of your newspaper wrote saying that among other things I was being extreme, insulting and unscientific in my advocacy...

It is said it takes a village to raise a child. At Living at Home of the Park Rapids Area, we believe it also takes a village to help our elders maintain independence and dignity as they age. In a recent report, put out by the Minnesota Department of Human Services, statewide our...

(Note: The article below was first published for the graduating class of 2004. One mother wrote and told me she had it blown up to poster size and put it on the wall where her graduate and his friends couldn't miss it. Others have suggested I repeat the article. Here it is.)

I am responding to the April 26, 2017 front page article about the March for Science.

Finally, opening day of fishing! I love to fish and I am not alone. According to the DNR, there are 1.4 million licensed anglers in Minnesota, and many will be out today on one of our 5,400 fishable lakes or 18,000 miles of fishable streams. After moving from the Twin Cities to the...

The recent announcement of U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue's rollback of school lunch regulations relating to whole grains, sodium and dairy drew much attention. We applaud Perdue's quick action to give more flexibility back to states and local school districts to find the best solutions...

On April 26, 2017 the Park Rapids Enterprise printed an article penned by Ernest Huhta and will probably be in the Menahga Review Messenger this week. The article titled "Inconvenient Truth to the Vote No side" lists five major points Huhta feels are untrue. First issue is open enrollment...

On behalf of the Menahga/Park Rapids Indivisible Group, I want to thank the Park Rapids Enterprise for your coverage of our Earth Day event. On Saturday, April 22, our group stood in Support of Science on various corners on Main St. and along Highway 71. We stood in solidarity with...

In 2008, nearly 60 percent of Minnesotans who voted supported the Legacy Amendment. The measure raised taxes to support the state's outdoor and cultural heritage. Since then, support for the amendment actually has grown. Some 75 percent of Minnesotans support the amendment today,...

My mother told me many times that I wasn't as smart as I thought I was ("the smartest people do the dumbest things") but I never paid attention. As the years passed, her message has often proved to be true — including last week. Last Friday, I was on my computer digging out...

Rotary has several special areas of focus with respect to community service. An important one is education, literacy and maternal and child health. The Park Rapids Rotary Club instituted a new award in 2015 to recognize service to children and youth in the community. The Hewitt Family...

Lions Clubs International celebrates a century of service this year and has grown to be the largest service organization in the world. Melvin Jones founded the club on June 7, 1917, and now 100 years later, there are over 45,000 clubs and more than 1.3 million members in 203 countries...

"Russification of Minnesota"? Really?

Hubbard County Commissioners are in the process of deciding to switch to a self-insured (self-funded) group health plan for the county employees. This type of plan is one in which the employer (Hubbard County/taxpayers) assumes the financial risk for providing health care coverage....