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Tag: Grand Forks

This or That

Kids and candy ruin parade for proper parents

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 22, 2016, 6:45 AM Sep 22, 2016
28

What’s the matter with these kids in Grand Forks today? You take them to a parade and someone on a float throws candy and they run to get it. Where are the parents?
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Crime and Justice

Grand Forks wants man to mow ‘weeds’; he sues for $10K

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 15, 2016, 11:35 AM Jul 15, 2016
16

A dispute over an unmowed patch of land has an attorney arguing an ordinance requiring it be clipped is unconstitutional. Read more →

Crime and Justice · This or That

Grand Forks lawyer takes stand for freedom to grow ‘weeds’

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 7, 2016, 12:16 PM Jul 7, 2016
11

Henry Howe, an attorney and owner of spot of land in the city’s downtown, is letting goatsbeard flowers grow because that’s what he likes.

Who’s to say he can’t? The Grand Forks Health Department, which has ordered him to mow the land. Read more →

Education

In Grand Forks, some Seuss on the sidewalk

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 1, 2015, 10:32 AM Aug 1, 2015
1

A week or so ago, a city official in a Massachusetts community got in big trouble for painting crosswalks where the city had neglected to keep them up.

Here’s hoping Grand Forks has a better view of Jeff Borys contribution to the pedestrian world. Read more →

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