2021-11-03

Lillie Huwe

Lillie Huwe “The Lady,” 93, passed from this life October. 25, 2021, in Bismarck. A memorial service was held Friday, October 29, at Faith Lutheran Church, Bismarck. Burial took place at North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan. She was born February 4, 1928, in McGregor to Oscar and Kalma Toso. She grew up in the McGregor area and attended elementary school […]

Margaret Holm

Margaret Vera Holm, 96, Billings, Montana, formerly of rural Appam, passed away at her daughter’s home in Billings, Montana, under the care of hospice Friday morning, October 29, 2021. Her funeral service will be held 11 a.m., Friday, November 5, 2021, at Calvary Lutheran Church, Alamo. Rev. Zachariah Shipman will officiate, and Interment will take place in Bethany Cemetery, Appam. […]

Rondajan Blumke

Rondajan L. Blumke, 58, Medicine Bow, Wyoming, passed away October 23, 2021. Arrangements are pending with Montgomery-Stryker Funeral Home.

Mike Edwards

In last week’s edition of the Journal in the Michael Edwards obituary it should have stated under surviving mother-in-law, Sandra Brusven and brother-in-law, Troy Brusven.

You can reject mandates, not responsibilities

ND joins suit to nullify mandate for fed contractors


No one likes to be told they have to do something. No one likes to be told they can’t do something. Americans are an independent lot. We like to decide things for ourselves, and we dislike it when someone else decides what we must or must not do. We’ve come to this place honestly and intentionally. From the beginning, the […]

Revolutionary talk is newsworthy

Whines & Roses

I became a journalist at the age of 22. In the 36 years since my first reporting assignment, I have never attended a public meeting where speakers claimed we might be on the brink of a new American revolution, let alone public officials who have sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution. Not an oath to the Constitution as it […]

Where you are from doesn’t dictate all

In Good Standing

“Where are you from?” This question, along with, “What do you do?” are the most commonly asked. Armed with the answers to these two queries, we as humans assume we know much about the person we have just met. I am starting to realize that the answers to these questions might not tell me as much about a person as […]

Letter



A tip of the feathered Spangenhelm helmet to Eric Standing. Between the Norwegians and the Indians, it’s kinda’ hard to find a funny one. He’s definitely one. Along with the lutefisk on fry. I hope I get to read lots more from Eric. (McGoon is a subscriber of The Journal who says, “I own land in Divide County and enjoy […]

Lights illuminate Farm to Market road


A project that started long before COVID, adding lighting on the Farm to Market road, is now on line. Employees from Burke-Divide Electric Co-op last week installed 11 new street lights. The lights are not only improving the visibility near the road’s intersection with ND 5, but gives illumination to the adjacent sidewalks to improve conditions for pedestrians. City council […]

County redistricting plan would impact one township — Fillmore


Slicing the pie is easy when it’s a dessert. It’s a lot harder when the pie is a geographical area like Divide County, yet that’s the job of the county redistricting board. Meeting for the first time last week, the five-member board, whose makeup is dictated by statute, began its work — ultimately settling on a proposal that could shift […]