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    June 10, 2017
    Briana Sanchez / Tribune The Kandiyohi County Historical Society on Friday hosted the annual Tea at the Sperry House, both to showcase the Sperry House in Willmar and also to raise funds for ongoing maintenance.play button
    Tea at the Sperry House offers genteel taste of history
    WILLMAR — Amid the turn-of-the-century trappings of the historic Sperry House, guests sipped tea Friday afternoon and nibbled on dainty...
    newsJune 10, 2017 - 6:39am
    June 7, 2017
    Letter: An important history lesson
    I wonder how much is being taught about founding father, Roger Sherman? He was the only one to have signed all the four major founding documents;...
    opinion/lettersJune 7, 2017 - 10:32pm
    Former President Theodore Roosevelt arrives for the laying of the cornerstone for a Carnegie Library at Fargo College, September 5, 1910. The campus was once located south of Island Park in Fargo. NDSU Archives, Fargo
    Fargo sets sights on new Teddy Roosevelt historical marker
    FARGO — Plans for a historical marker commemorating Teddy Roosevelt's Sept. 5, 1910, visit to the city are in the works, according to a...
    newsJune 7, 2017 - 5:38am
    May 31, 2017
    The historic Engine 261 steams into Willmar on Tuesday. The train engine and passenger cars are headed to eastern North Dakota for three days of passenger excursions to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Red River Valley & Western Railroad. Clay Conover / Tribune
    Historic Engine 261 stops in Willmar
    WILLMAR — The historic Engine 261 made a stop Tuesday in Willmar to change crews and perform maintenance, before heading for a weekend...
    newsMay 31, 2017 - 6:59am
    April 30, 2017
    Sunday is the 50th anniversary of a storm that drowned four people -- three brothers went out onto the pier and were swept off the pier by the waves, and one of the three Coast Guard members who attempted to rescue them also drowned. Tom Mackay was a friend of Edgar Culbertson, the Coast Guard member who drowned, and sits by a plaque honoring him in Canal Park. (Clint Austin / Forum News Service)
    Lake Superior's 'frightful blow'
    DULUTH — Three Coast Guardsmen tethered themselves together to rescue three brothers who had made their way down the Duluth ship canal's...
    newsApril 30, 2017 - 6:00am
    March 4, 2017
    Anjanette Schussler, left, and Charles Rodgers of the Minnesota Historical Society talk about an album of historic photos, depicting the construction of the Minnesota State Capitol, which resides in the State Archives collection in St. Paul on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Scott Takushi / St. Paul Pioneer Press
    Found in a pile of garbage, a priceless piece of Minnesota Capitol history
    ST. PAUL — When Lloyd Jackson was dropping off some trash at Pig's Eye Landfill one day in the 1950s, he stumbled across an old photo album...
    sportsMarch 4, 2017 - 1:00am
    January 31, 2017
    Letter: Meet the future with hope
    We live in a fast-changing time in world history. I hear the trumpet sounding and the world rumbling to a climax. Lift up your head and be observant,...
    opinion/lettersJanuary 31, 2017 - 9:57pm
    December 23, 2016
    Crews with the Knife River Marina and Ostman Trucking move the Crusader II from its former site on the shore of Agate Bay in Two Harbors, Minn., on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (Samantha Erkkila / Forum News Service) play button
    Historical Society donates fishing tug to Knife River
    KNIFE RIVER — A historical landmark paying homage to the North Shore's once-thriving commercial fishing industry began its journey Wednesday...
    newsDecember 23, 2016 - 9:13am
    December 7, 2016
    The KMS Marching Saints are shown in Willmar in this September file photo.
    Watch the KMS Marching Saints at mass band performance at Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary
    The popular KMS Marching Saints band is in Hawaii for the 75th anniversary observance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The band will...
    newsDecember 7, 2016 - 9:47am
    November 30, 2016
    Members of the marching band from Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg leads the move Sept. 14 from Bethesda Heritage Center to Bethesda Grand down 11th Avenue Southeast in Willmar. The KMS Marching Saints are going to Hawaii to play at the 75th anniversary observance of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Briana Sanchez / Tribune file photo
    KMS band heads for Hawaii Friday night
    KERKHOVEN — At midnight Friday, 83 Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg High School students and their chaperones will leave on the trip of a lifetime....
    newsNovember 30, 2016 - 10:50pm
    November 24, 2016
    All you need to know about how Thanksgiving started
    ARGO — Nearly 400 years ago, 102 people boarded a tiny ship called the Mayflower and set out on a harrowing journey to find the New World....
    news/nationNovember 24, 2016 - 9:56am
    November 22, 2016
    The Battle of Nashville" by Howard Pyle
    Fight erupts over Civil War art at the state Capitol
    ST. PAUL — A heated debate is roiling over a proposal to remove Civil War paintings from the Governor's Reception Room in the Minnesota...
    newsNovember 22, 2016 - 6:51am
    November 3, 2016
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    Wreck found along 'outlandishly' remote stretch of Lake Superior shore
    SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario—His ship sunk, his belongings gone but for the clothes on his back, L.S. Upson surveyed the scene along the remote...
    newsNovember 3, 2016 - 8:40am
    October 24, 2016
    A clipping of the editorial published in The Forum in 1964, the last time the newspaper's Editorial Board declined to endorse the Republican Party candidate for president.
    In historically rare move, Forum Communications Co. doesn't endorse Republican candidate for president
    For the first time in more than a half century, Forum Communications Co. and the Forum Editorial Board is not endorsing the Republican candidate...
    newsOctober 24, 2016 - 5:55am
    September 30, 2016
    An unidentified prisoner is pictured in 1945 at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. The liberation of the camp will be part of a presentation Oct. 4 from Bill Borth, a retired history teacher and Holocaust pundit from Willmar. (Courtesy of Bill Borth)
    A story that has 'to be told'
    When it comes to the Holocaust, retired Willmar history teacher Bill Borth might be the preeminent voice on the topic in the region. And it's...
    newsSeptember 30, 2016 - 4:00pm
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