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Areavoices Digest #57 – Check these blogs before you finish your Christmas shopping
Can you guess how many iPads will be sold this holiday season? According the the technology research firm Gartner about 63.4 million media tablets will be sold in the last three months of this year, about 3/4 of them are … Continue reading
More outdoors news coming on Areavoices – Areavoices Digest #49
For those of you craving more hunting, fishing, and camping news, we’ve got it on Areavoices. Brad Dokken of The Grand Forks Herald is supplementing his outdoors coverage from the paper with a blog. He hopes it will provide space … Continue reading
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Tagged bemidji, books, hawthorne, neighborhood blogs, outdoors, packers, sports
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Areavoices Digest #48 – This is fall, really?
My husband has been in a funk lately. He’s not a fan of hot weather. He’s longing for what he calls “real fall weather.” You know crisp, football weather. As for me, I’m all about milking every last warm day … Continue reading
Areavoices Digest #46 – Should I watch the game or read a book?
I was torn this past Sunday. The Minnesota Vikings were playing late that afternoon but I was also smack dab in the middle of a great book. I’ve never claimed to be a huge Vikings fan. In fact, I grew … Continue reading
Areavoices Digest #42 – A terrific twosome
When it rains it pours. These days in addition to some of my regular duties I find myself immersed in two pretty cool projects here at Forum Communications. You could say I’m just getting my feet wet with our water … Continue reading
Areavoices Digest #41 – Ole and Lena go to Sturgis?
Awhile back during the spring flood I stumbled across a great blog called “The Adventures of Ole and Lena.” In it, “Lena” documented the troubles she and “Ole” faced living near the rising Buffalo river near Moorhead, Minnesota. It wasn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, books, crime, entertainment, higher education, sturgis, wahpeton
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Areavoices Digest #39 – Learning more about Home Schooling
In the past few months Areavoices has been happy to welcome dozens of schools into the blogosphere. From preschools to elementary schools from high schools to colleges, administrators, teachers and students are publishing their own news right on the homepages … Continue reading
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Tagged books, education, entertainment, family, red river valley fair
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Areavoices Digest #36 – What is the worst movie of all time?
We all have our choices. For me, it was a movie called “The Sweetest Thing” starring Cameron Diaz. Normally, I really enjoy chick flicks and romantic comedies. But this is unworthy of being on the same DVD shelf as “When Harry met … Continue reading