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Blackduck’s Annie Haws (left) is a state champion speaker. She took first place at the state speech contest in Original Oratory. Cooper Taylor took second place in Informative Speaking and and Jessica Lange took sixth place in Serious Interpretations of Prose.

Haws is state speech champion

Blackduck High School has its first state champion in any activity or sport in more than two decades. Annie Haws captured the title in the Original Oratory division at the state speech contest with her speech entitled The Last Child in the Woods.

A certain sign of spring
The surest sign that winter has actually come to an end is the beginning of Minnesota's other season - road work. Duane Steele, left and Patrick Juelson from the Beltrami County Highway Department were busy this past week sealing cracks on County Road 31 in Hines.

Architect Mike Johnston (left) met with the Northome City Council April 30 to review the final design and bid specifications for the downtown rebuilding project. After discussing various project details such as heating and roofing, the council voted to seek bids for construction.

City of Northome's building project — take two

Northome City Council to advertise for bids for downtown building project.

These four music teachers in the Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted school district all have connections to Blackduck and BSU. From left to right are, Stephanie Dailey, Charles Roux, Dawn Kalvig and Chris Starr.

Small town connections — a musical bridge with Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted

Sometimes, a little school can have a larger impact on more students than it could ever imagine. This is certainly the case with the school in Blackduck.

UND student from Kelliher earns aviation scholarship

Matthew Rabe, a junior at the University of North Dakota, has been awarded a $1,000 Merrimack Capital Company aviation training scholarship.

Finalists named for Kelliher superintendent

The Kelliher School Board met briefly April 16 to discuss the qualifications for various candidates for the superintendent’s position. Following the meeting, the board announced the names of the finalists.

Paul Bunyan Telephone’s donation helps Kelliher Fire and Rescue

Paul Bunyan Telephone recently made a $2,500 contribution to the Kelliher Fire and Rescue for upgrades needed with new mobile and base station digital radios.

Kelliher Health Fair is big success
More than 200 visitors attended the seventh annual Kelliher Health Fair April 15 in the Kelliher Old School gym. The event is sponsored by Community Resource Connections, Inc., Kelliher Resource Center and its advisory team, BiCAP and the Kelliher School. Above, a steady stream of people visited the Beltrami County Public Health/WIC program booth, manned by Kim Larson.

Northwoods Craft set to open for season

The Northwoods Craft Store in Northome will open its doors for the summer season May 5. Store hours will be from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Pat and Tom Nendick in their new home off the Hines Road enjoy an evening after he’d finished burning brush on the night following a church board meeting and before another full schedule of things yet to be done. Grandchildren, managing the new Hardware Hank store, and local involvement continue to rank high on both their agendas.

A chance to relax

Nendick sees change — but not too much yet

Tom Nendick reminisces about his youth and years as owner of Nendick's Hardare Store.

Girls State selections

Three Blackduck girls selected to attend Girls State

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