“Judas and the Black Messiah” follows the Black Panther movement in Chicago in the late 1960’s. Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) is spouting the kind of fiery rhetoric that could lead to social and political upheaval. What he wants is nothing short of a revolution. This naturally freaks out those dedicated to maintaining the status quo,… Read More

To the Editor, History is meant for reflection and healing­—not for repeating. Our never-ended Civil War was our first taste of religious extremism and overreach.  Christian fundamentalists considered slavery God’s will and a commodity, a market share and knee on your neck thing. The abolitionist progressive Christians were and are the promoters of the pesky Golden… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Friday, Feb. 12 1:19 p.m. Assist with looking for a stolen vehicle out of Detroit Lakes. 3:40 p.m. Assist Becker County Human Services. 8:50 p.m. Assist with a medical. 11:46 p.m. Assist with looking for a stolen vehicle from Perham. Saturday, Feb. 13 9:22 p.m. Suspicious vehicle at a residence on Balsam. 9:28 p.m. Domestic disturbance on… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief There have been several reports lately in the Fargo/Moorhead area of some suspicious activity regarding potential human trafficking.   Below is an article that I found online (www.allprodad.com) outlaying basic safety skills to keep us all safe.  This is more of a reminder and is a bit outdated.  I will have… Read More

To the Editor, I want  to share with your readers a story that tells something about life in Frazee.  A few days after my husband died, I received a lovely plant with a card signed, “The First Graders”.   Eighty years ago, Charleen (Rein) Schemerhorn, Mary Ann (Ketter) Moore, Pat (Ebeltoft) Pfeifer,  Ruthie (Dunn) Morrow and I started … Read More

To the Editor, Congratulations to Clay Nagel on his well deserved honors bestowed by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. We benefit from his contributions to the quality of our family’s continuous journey in life long learning, not the least of which was his co-directing the Frazee-Vergas drama students in their play production. Our thanks to Mr Nagel,… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief By the time you read this we will be knee deep in this nice cold stretch. Good thing we got the cows vaccinated with Scour Bos 9 last Wednesday. The weather was pleasant for working the cattle and the needles did not freeze up.  I kept the syringe in my… Read More

I don’t know if I have ever felt as short as I did the other week when I was standing on the court and watching the Frazee boys basketball team warming up. Now, I have never been delusional enough to think I was tall, but at 6’0” I am not exactly short either. I don’t… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Well, I did it again and it will for sure happen in the future, I totally spaced out the article last week. I took a couple days off and I’m sure I had many disappointed fans.  My couple of days off was well spent on the farm, getting the feeder calves… Read More

There have been over 65 new billionaires created in the U.S. since March of 2020, bringing the total to an excess of 650.  These oligarchs are what ‘owned’ Paul Ryan likes to call ‘makers not takers.’  There are also 8 million (and counting) new entrants to the ranks of poverty with 16 million (and counting)… Read More