To The Crookston Times readers,

It is with regret that CherryRoad Media announces the closing of The Crookston Times

Our company is dedicated to the preservation of community journalism. Since the purchase of our 1st paper in late-2020 to today, we have prided ourselves on our ability to fight the difficult battle that newspapers face in today’s digital society. Unfortunately, that battle cannot always be won.

The Crookston Times has struggled in recent years to find its footing in this community. Since purchasing The Crookston Times, CherryRoad Media has been unable to avoid financial losses every month. The paper was losing money when we bought it, and it continued to do so. We must now come to terms with the fact that we do not have a path forward to sustainability.

And we thank those who have supported us.

Opinion

Education and American Democracy

On August 22, 1862, The New York Tribune published a letter President Abraham Lin-coln had written to editor Horace Greeley; notable in that letter was this quote: “If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would also do that.”

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We need your help

This summer, when the Crookston Times editor resigned, I was brought in to help with the transition. My first impression of the paper was that it was amazing. I loved the news coverage, the sports reporting and the overall design. I loved my first visit to Crookston. It’s a beautiful town with an amazing downtown area. It seemed like a hidden gem in Minnesota.

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Ask A Trooper: Highway Hay Loading

Question: Is it legal for farmers to load hay on a state highway? Our neighbor bales several miles of state highway ditches. To load the round bales he drives down the highway with a pickup and bale wagon. His son is in the ditch with a tractor and loader. The son gets a bale on the loader and driving perpendicular to the road drives up the ditch and puts the bale on the bale wagon. The son with the loader stops with his front wheels on the shoulder of the road and puts the bale on the trailer. The bale wagon is stopped on the state highway in the lane of traffic so the bale can be loaded. Is this legal?

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It’s All in the Wording

John 3: 16-17 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

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The 90s

Decades are like snowflakes. They’re white and pointy, and all a little different. Sometimes I think about the 20th century and the decades therein. Nobody knows exactly how many decades were in that century, but it almost seems like there is one every ten years or so.

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The Death of a Queen

Revelation 19: 16 “And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” In the Tower Castle in London, there is a theater in which there is a continuous film loop shown of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1999, my son and I were in that theater and I will never forget the expressions on the faces of the British people as they watched.

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