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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA NEWS UND Writers Conference features 'Great Conversation' with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley tonight
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jane Smiley will be the featured guest of a Great Conversation at 8 p.m., tonight, at the Chester Fritz Auditorium, with moderator Sally Pyle, director of UND's Honors pr...
Posted on 3/30/12 at 11:10 AM
FAR SIDE OF FIFTY Updates
I am all through with Doctors appointments until March now..what a relief. I saw the eye Doctor, my eyes are healing well, everyday is getting better. I am still frustrated by the stupid reading glass...
Posted on 2/19/10 at 5:21 AM
PRAIRIE VOICES: About Neil Hensrud 
Neil Hensrud, former Grand Forks City Council member from 1970 to 1978, came up with the idea to add two smiley faces to a water tower near DeMers Avenue and South Washington Street during maintenance work.
By Herald Staff Report , July 26, 2009
PRAIRIE VOICES: Smile for Smiley
Former City Council member Neil Hensrud, who came up with the idea of painting smiley faces on the water tower, reflects on the landmark.
July 25, 2009
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A friendly new face
Crews were using black tape to outline the face of the new Smiley water tower today to the east of Purpur Arena in what used to be Williamson Park.
July 22, 2009
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Triplets for Terminator
Three peregrine falcon chicks spotted on SmileyThe chicks would be the offspring of Terminator, a female from Brandon, Man., who first appeared in Grand Forks in 2008, and Roosevelt, a male who migrated this year from Fargo. It’s the second time the once endangered species has successfully nested and bred in Grand Forks.
June 18, 2009
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OUR OPINION: Grand Forks icons face Court of Public Opinion
Smiley lost. Riverside Pool won. Why?
Credit the great Court of Public Opinion, whose verdicts influence life so profoundly in Grand Forks and everywhere else in America — and whose mysterious workings command even more attention than do those of the U.S. Supreme Court.
May 27, 2009
VIEWPOINT: Wanted: A stay of execution for Smiley
On Monday, the Grand Forks City Council will open the bids to tear down our Smiley water tower. I accept the fact there is no desire to spend about $400,000 of taxpayer money to repaint it, when it can be torn down for about $100,000.
By Jerry Waletzko , May 17, 2009
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As the bird turns
Falcon love triangle resembles TV melodramaBird watchers are keeping an eye on the bedroom action of Grand Forks’ two peregrine falcons because it proves the birds are together and breeding. This would only be the second time peregrine falcons, a once endangered species, have nested and bred in the area.
By Tu-Uyen Tran , April 28, 2009
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OUTDOORS: Peregrine lands at 'Smiley'
A banded peregrine falcon showed up Monday at the Smiley water tower in Grand Forks, suggesting a pair of the birds that nested on the tower last year is planning another go-round this year.
March 23, 2009
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Mike Hennessy, Grand Forks, letter: Petitions are fine, but show me the money
Unless there are people who are willing to step up to the plate to pay the recurring expenses for Smiley's upkeep, then it’s pretty much a lost cause.
March 03, 2009
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Smiley the water tower finds support from local teenagers
Grand Forks City Council’s decision Feb. 17 to get bids for the demolition of Smiley the water tower was largely because of increased cost estimates for repairing the aging structure.
February 28, 2009
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IN THE MAIL: Consider ox in own eye
By Gordon Iseminger , February 21, 2009
Mike Butler, East Grand Forks, letter: Let dynamite put Smiley out of our misery
Now, it’s just a matter of how Old Smiley is gonna go. Careful dismantling is for sissies, so I propose six or seven well-placed charges at Old Smiley’s base. That will ensure our other American tradition of “do it now, do it quick” remains memorable as well.
February 20, 2009
Jeffrey Smith, Bemidji, letter: Visitor to GF gives Smiley 'thumbs down'
Don’t throw away tax dollars on this embarrassment. To do so would be to like kicking sand in the face of every man, woman and family struggling to make ends meet in this uncertain economy.
February 11, 2009
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Smiley gets reprieve
Smiley can rest a little easier after a lengthy and heated discussion on the water tower’s fate at Monday’s City Council meeting — but its future will still have to be decided at a later date.
February 02, 2009
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