Crystal workers rally, hope growers will join them 
About 200 people showed up at a meeting held by locked-out American Crystal Sugar Co. workers Saturday in East Grand Forks, though the person they really wanted to see wasn’t there.
Grand Forks Herald, 08/18/2012
Kids welcome airman dad home from 4th deployment
Audrae Rivera’s three children were waiting at the Grand Forks airport for their aunt, and they stared in alarm at the bearded man in camouflage walking toward them with his arms wide for a hug.
Grand Forks Herald, 05/22/2012
Grand Forks library gains in popularity
Grand Forks Public Library saw another busy year in 2011 despite what library officials have described as an outdated and cramped building. The number of books and other material checked out soared close to 486,000, which is 12 percent more than four years ago. The number of people attending library programs soared past 8,900, which is 212 percent more.
Grand Forks Herald, 05/19/2012
Workout like a Navy SEAL at race today
Have you got what it takes to finish a U.S. Navy SEAL workout? Derek Stutz, a customs agent in Pembina, N.D., is organizing a kind of race at noon today at Pembina High School.
Grand Forks Herald, 05/19/2012
Forum chief calls for Red River Valley economic plan
Bill Marcil pledges $100,000 to get effort rollingWilliam C. Marcil, owner and chairman of Fargo-based Forum Communications Co., is seeking to rally the business community to develop a strategic plan to take the Red River Valley economy to a new level.
Grand Forks Herald, 05/10/2012
Polka dot house a dot.com hit
The house at 523 University Ave. in Grand Forks has been around for 112 years and all it took was a fresh coat of paint to turn it into an instant landmark and an overnight Internet sensation. A fresh coat of polka dots that is.
Grand Forks Herald, 05/05/2012
Larimore, N.D., nursing home raising funds for community wellness center
When Calvin Peterson, a former resident of the Good Samaritan Society’s nursing home in Larimore, N.D., heard of an effort to bring a community wellness center to town, he set aside some money to donate. Proponents of the center learned last year after he passed away that he’d left $110,000 for the project.Grand Forks Herald, 05/05/2012
VIDEO: Marilyn Hagerty reviews Space Aliens on 'Anderson'
Herald columnist Marilyn Hagerty, whom TV talk show host Anderson Cooper called "my favorite food critic of all time,” made a second appearance on his show on CBS Wednesday morning. And it may not be her last appearance either.Grand Forks Herald, 05/02/2012
Grand Forks man brightens up the neighborhood ... one dot at a time
Jimmy Deitz, who owns the house at the corner of University Avenue and North Sixth Street in Grand Forks, got the notion to cover the building in polka dots from a painter friend.
Grand Forks Herald, 05/01/2012
Crystal agrees to union contract — but it’s in Montana
The contract that Moorhead-based American Crystal Sugar Co. signed last week with the Bakery Worker’s union at a subsidiary in Sidney, Mont., is similar to the contract the company offered to locked-out union workers at its Red River Valley factories, a company executive said this week.
But a union leader here said there are key differences.
Grand Forks Herald, 04/26/2012
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