Articles

Retired postal worker turned frowns upside down

Chances are if you’ve been to the Alexandria Post Office in the last 26 years, you’ve probably been helped by the smiley guy who likes to laugh and tell jokes.

• Darrel Kuhnau

No spring break for Alexandria students in 2012

With a committee of two parents, six teachers, two principals and two administrators, the calendars for the next two school years were set. And on Monday night, Alexandria School District 206 board members approved the calendars.

Sentenced to Serve program faces state cut

Last year, Douglas County Sentenced to Serve (STS) participants, the adult inmates, worked about 14,000 hours – at no cost to the businesses and organizations they helped.

• Planting a garden
• Painting at the fairgrounds
• Tree recycling

Sounds to get sweeter at AAAA

The sound of music at the Alexandria Area Arts Association (AAAA) Theatre in downtown Alexandria will be much sweeter soon.

County gears up for snow: It buys new plow for $148,910

If March came in like a lamb, will it really go out like a lion? The Farmer’s Almanac predicts that before winter is officially over, there could be another 30 inches of snow headed this way.

Sportsmen do more than hunt

Next Thursday, Viking Sportsmen, Inc. will host its 25th annual Viking Sportsmen Club fundraising banquet. Most people have probably heard of this club and maybe even attended an event the group has been a part of, such as the annual Ice Fishing Challenge or perhaps the Junior Viking Sportsmen Habitat Day.

Knute wins state honor

Finding out about an award and not being able to share it was a hard thing for Katie Perry and Jessica Critz from Knute Nelson to do but they did it. Until now.

• Community Impact Award

Townships elect supervisors, clerks

They came and they voted. Some in droves, others in small percentages – very small percentages. Township elections took place Tuesday, March 9 in 19 of the 20 townships within Douglas County. (Brandon Township holds its township elections during the November election.)

• Township elections

Airborne at Andes

Mother Nature definitely cooperated for Saturday’s Faction Challenge Snowboard Contest.

• Travis Lang
• Ben Olson

Season weight restrictions on roads, bridges take effect

As spring approaches, season vehicle weight restrictions are once again in effect. This year, the state implemented seasonal load restrictions, which began Tuesday, March 9.

• New scale

Columns

Column - A new reporter in town?

I think I might have some competition in the world of writing. Before the school year ended, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Alexis Habberstad, who attends Brandon Elementary School.

Column – Blessed with a teenager

The other day, while sitting at my computer pondering what I was going to write about, I asked my son if I could write about him. Thinking he would be embarrassed to have his mother write about him in the newspaper, I kind of asked as a joke.