RYAN BAKKEN: What's in a presidential name? 
"My interest about first names comes from today’s politics," columnist Ryan Bakken writes. "In November, we will elect a president named Barack, Mitt or Newt. None of those names rank in the top 1,000 of names selected in 2010."
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The “cup of coffee away” marketing slogan was successful in attracting residents to Hillsboro, N.D., over the past decade. Now, Hillsboro and the rest of the Traill County, are using an extension of that strategy that might be characterized as “a thermos of coffee away.”
RELATED CONTENT‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’
’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care. In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
RELATED CONTENTMARILYN HAGERTY: Winter bows out in flurry of hockey pucks — here and in St. Paul
Forget the harsh winter that just passed. Forget about the ongoing saga about changing the Fighting Sioux nickname. This is the weekend for UND men’s hockey fans to cheer on the team in the Final Five in St. Paul.
RELATED CONTENTIN THE SPIRIT BLOG: He'll be home for Christmas
Christmas is coming and so is Seth Custer, home from Greenville, S.C., where he is a music professor at Bob Jones University. And of course, the East Grand Forks native is bringing his saxophones with him.
RELATED CONTENTRummage sale in a hangar
A new store in Grand Forks has the perfect name for appealing to shopaholics and bargain-hunters. It’s called Treasure Hunters.
RELATED CONTENTBashful, the horse that tried to escape, back in the Badlands
Bashful, a 3-year-old horse born in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, walks calmly into the buffalo pens Saturday, where he was rounded up a year ago. His owner, Dan Sparling, guides him with ease from the horse’s back. It may be hard to believe that, a year ago, the now docile Bashful jumped from the sales arena in a panicked attempt to escape, injuring himself and a 79-year-old man in the process.
CITY OF SCENTS: Beverly Hills to make a splash with own perfumes
The three fragrance set, developed by Swiss perfumiers specifically for the city, will be the initial products in a Beverly Hills beauty line that will roll out over the next year.
RELATED CONTENTAfter Coon Rapids, Minn., hotel room floods, guest feels soaked
Under Minnesota law, the burden is on the traveler. Be careful what you bring with you on the road, because the innkeeper might not have to pay for it if it's gone. State law caps a hotel's liability for a guest's personal property losses at $1,000, unless the loss is the hotel's fault.
RELATED CONTENT3 grandkids born 15 minutes apart in same Fargo hospital
As proud grandma Pat Geraghty watched the nurses weigh, measure and take the footprints of her newborn granddaughter Kyenna, happy tears streamed down her face. She had three times as many reasons to be so happy.
RELATED CONTENTDickinson man's WWII battleship replica also to be final resting place
U.S. Navy veteran Earl Wehner, 82, has been building a replica of the USS South Dakota (BB-57) — the battleship that he served on during World War II. But it has another, long-term purpose.
RELATED CONTENTGIFT OF RAPID GAB: Wyndmere, N.D., auctioneer wins S.D. bid calling contest
John Kuchera, a Wyndmere, N.D., resident, reached over the state line and took first in the 2010 South Dakota Auctioneers Association bid-calling competition on Sept. 5.
RELATED CONTENTPole fitness is what Fargoan makes her business
Thorson is Fargo’s newest pole fitness guru, an evangelist for a form of exercise centered around dance routines on a vertical stainless steel pole. As far as she knows – and as far as the newspaper can tell – she’s the medium’s first and only instructor in town, or in North Dakota, for that matter.
RELATED CONTENTVeterans treasure 164th reunion for the 65th time in Valley City
Sixty-seven years ago, at age 18, Horace Nearhood was drafted into the 164th Infantry Regiment – a unit of North Dakota’s National Guard – and shipped out to the Pacific to fight. Nearhood, now 86 and retired, did the same thing he’s done once a year for the past three decades: drove 950 miles from his home in Toledo, Ohio, to Valley City for the 164th’s annual reunion to see old comrades in arms.
RELATED CONTENTThreshers reunite in New Rockford
The 52nd annual Central Dakota Steam Threshers Reunion is all about nostalgia. But don’t look for this to be a gathering or reunion of men who operated the big steam engines to thresh the grain back in the day when horses and steam were the only power of agriculture.
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