Ann Erling News Today

40s, and a brisk breeze. Another weak storm system rolled into the area last evening with drizzle and flurries. Scattered light rain and snow are possible this morning with no accumulation is expected, and this afternoon remains mostly cloudy with highs near 40, and a few light rain showers. Tonight with lows near 32. Incident freespeeds at or if your up this early maybe youre getting ready to . . Join the crowds. . . Its one of the black friday. Pete zervakis is live at Southridge Mall. Where t...

Remaining near 60. Overnight has been partly cloudy, windy and cool with lows in the mid 50s, and ne winds gusty to 30 mph. The wind off the lake has kept us mornings. Today will have plenty of sun, a few clouds, closing arguments start at nine this morning. In the emotional Laylah Petersen trial the jury will then consider the fate of the man accused of killing the with more. This has been an emotional trial for the family of five year old Laylah Petersen. She was sitting on her grandfathers la...

1/2/2008: In May of 1900, John Link bid farewell to his native home in Bohemia and set sail for America. Like many immigrants before him, John settled temporarily in the east where he was able to find work in a textile factory in Massachusetts. After many years of working, John had saved enough money to send for his childhood sweetheart, Anna. In 1906, John and Anna Link traveled west where they homesteaded in McKenzie County, North Dakota near the town of Alexander. Who would have known that th...

11/5/2007: Frank Zastoupil’s grandfather journeyed from Bohemia in Austria-Hungary to Russia when the Czarina Catherine the Great offered Russian land and religious freedom to new settlers. The Zastoupil family dwelled in a village surrounded by fellow Bohemians. They farmed side by side in their new country, danced polkas and waltzes, sang with great passion, and shared joyful social lives.

11/2/2007: A North Dakota settler’s most deadly enemy didn’t have sharp claws, it couldn’t utter threats, it didn’t even have opposable thumbs. It was the weather. From the scorching heat of summer, to the blinding blizzards of winter, North Dakota homesteaders struggled year round to triumph over unruly conditions. Everyone faced these trials, from young Ole Melhouse, to widowed Carrie Severson; the prairie weather spared no one.