Nothing Can Stop the U.S. Air Force (and families)
Wow, what a shock to the system this last week has been! First the epic 3-day blizzard, then the heart stopping cold front which brought negative high temperatures. Phew, North Dakota is not for the faint of heart! Many people on the base are transplants from warmer climates and for a first timer here, this […]
(Military) Christmas Vacation
The drill is familiar. Another holiday season away from extended family and figuring out new short-termed traditions. Military families don’t get the luxury of doing the same things year after year. With frequent moving, sometimes during the holidays themselves or with a deployed spouse, Christmas is sometimes spent in TLF, or in a lonely house, […]
New commander- same mission as U.S. Strategic Command conducts change of command
Offutt AFB –U.S. Air Force Gen, Anthony J. Cotton relieved U.S. Navy Adm. Charles “Chas” A. Richard as commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) during a ceremony at Offutt Air Force Base today. Cotton becomes USSTRATCOM’s 8th commander, highlighting the enduring stability of the nation’s strategic enterprise during a time of increased global pressure and […]
Upside Down Under: Clever… until they’re caught…
I was at my desk one day at The Kenmare News and the telephone rang. It was Karen Pauls of CBC-TV in Winnipeg. She was calling to ask me if I knew anything about some Nigerians who were hospitalized in Kenmare. I hadn’t heard about such a thing and my first question to her was, […]
A View From Our Side: Remember to Share the Warmth of Christmas
I started to write my thoughts about Christmas during the recent snowstorm. Stuck at home like so many others, there was time to reflect and relate. Friends at the base were sending me photos and texts from base housing showing the piles of snow drifts across streets making transportation on base difficult, at best. In […]
Jr. Journalism: Bismarck Museum
Have you ever been to Bismarck Museum? If you haven’t, then you should go! Your whole family can go to this exciting museum. There are lots of rooms with cool things in them like history, clothes that people wore in the past, dinosaurs, a gift shop, a tree house and more! The fossilized dinosaur exhibit […]
