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Hello, readers! I am Isabelle Foland, and I have been the Missouri Valley Times-News’ intern reporter for this summer, as I was last summer. I am writing this article as a farewell since I will …
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By Isabelle Foland - ifoland05@gmail.com
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8/9/23
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For those of you who care to read my columns from time to time, you’ll remember that I got engaged to my longtime girlfriend, Morgan, back in April.
Two Sundays ago, we chose to take …
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By Aaron Hickman - news@enterprisepub.com
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8/2/23
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Last week, I had the opportunity to go to the Missouri Valley Public Library and listen to Delores Dorland's presentation on her stand-up bass.
Dorland is the mother of the Times-News' front …
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By Aaron Hickman - news@enterprisepub.com
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7/19/23
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I’m not in the business of writing books, and I don’t think I ever could be. Things change, of course, but for now I’ll stick to what I know and continue to read what I don’t.
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By Aaron Hickman - news@enterprisepub.com
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7/12/23
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On Saturday, April 1, I proposed to my girlfriend of roughly seven-and-a-half years, Morgan, at Preparation Canyon in the Loess Hills.
We’ve been together so long, her saying …
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By Aaron Hickman - news@enterprisepub.com
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5/3/23
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I recently experienced a first, and it wasn’t a good one. A teacher who meant a lot to me passed away, leaving behind a wife and four children.
I had Mr. Bouska for math classes during …
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By Aaron Hickman - news@enterprisepub.com
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3/8/23
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The youth and senior citizens of Missouri Valley are very fortunate to have a community that wants to ensure safe recreational areas for them to exercise, play and practice. These opportunities were …
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By Christi Gochenour, Missouri Valley Superintendent
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3/2/23
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Packing people into the back country doesn’t sound really exciting, I know. And sif it gets exciting, it’s undoubtedly because something went wrong. But we did have occasional chuckles during those eight summers.
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By Slim Randles
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8/17/22
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Imagine every pair of shoes you have ever worn lined up in chronological order. Each pair clutches a story untied by memories.
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DeAnn (Wolkow) Kruempel
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8/17/22
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I am Isabelle Foland, and I have been working as an intern and part-time for the Missouri Valley Times since about January. I am now getting ready to move to college at the University of Iowa to begin my freshman year.
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By Isabelle Foland
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8/10/22
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Eight greedy beasts roamed the ground below me, watching…waiting. Like ravenous vultures they circled, ready to pounce on anything that dropped to the ground.
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DeAnn (Wolkow) Kruempel
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8/10/22
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Looking around at all the yard signs and hearing politicians tell us on television what a lying crook their competition is, I have to admit I miss Guv Reeve.
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By Slim Randles
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8/10/22
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Rough dark leaves grazed my face and arms and made me itch. Toes sank into the black South Dakota dirt as I trudged between rows of tall fibrous stalks.
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DeAnn (Wolkow) Kruempel
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8/3/22
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“You know it used to was even hotter than it is right now, don’t you?” Windy looked up from his lunch.
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By Slim Randles
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8/3/22
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It was Doc who first noticed Dud's strange behavior. I was too busy trying to drop an elk-hair caddis fly, size 16, just beyond that big smooth rock on Lewis Creek.
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Slim Randles
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7/27/22
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On the top of my right foot there is a small triangle-shaped scar. Scars usually have stories to tell.
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DeAnn (Wolkow) Kruempel
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7/27/22
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“It’s time to get up, DeAnn! There’s a lot to do this morning,” Mom called up the stairs. The tone of her voice indicated that this morning she would not be my snooze button.
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DeAnn (Wolkow) Kruempel
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7/20/22
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The Bahdziewicz clan trooped into the Mule Barn for lunch the other day, happily and noisily as only eight Americans totally in love with summer can do.
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By Slim Randles
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7/20/22
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Two kids were arguing just outside my window the other day. Now that school’s out, they have more time for the important issues of life, of course. This time, the subject was ghosts and whether or not they are real.
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Slim Randles
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7/13/22
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The year: 1962. The place: The Pheasant Bar, Winner, South Dakota. Seven young linemen sat in corner booths at the back.
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DeAnn (Wolkow) Kruempel
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7/13/22
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Last week’s weather was enough to make one lose her cool. “Heat index up to 110…” The heat index is how hot it really feels when humidity is factored in with the actual air temperature.
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DeAnn (Wolkow) Kruempel
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7/7/22
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The annual Fourth of July parade through our town began this year with a mystery. You see, a couple of the boys cornered Jimmy Angles yesterday down by Lewis Creek and hit him in the mouth.
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By Slim Randles
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7/6/22
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It’s always good to know there are things in life we can count on.
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DeAnn (Wolkow) Kruempel
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6/29/22
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An afternoon rain shower put an end to field work one warm day in early June. Delmer and the neighbor boys grabbed the opportunity to patrol the shelter belt for deer trails and broods of young pheasants.
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DeAnn (Wolkow) Kruempel
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6/22/22
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It is time for me to bid farewell to so many readers, contributors, and friends – but I can’t believe that it is time to say goodbye. I have resigned from the Missouri Valley Times News, The Dunlap Reporter, and The Mapleton Press.
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By Tonia Copeland
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6/15/22
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