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With less than five days left of 2020, the city of Wahpeton is preparing for 2021, a year it hopes many will look forward to. Community Development Director Chris DeVries shared with Daily News a few things he hopes will be back in the near future. Return dates are tentative, but optimism is definite. “I think in 2021 we’ll be able to gather in groups, slowly but surely, as we have in the past,” DeVries said. The Wahpeton Winter Wonderland, a weekend event revived in 2019 for the city’s sesquicentennial, is not likely to return for 2021. DeVries said he was hoping to have ...

Santa Claus, waving to passersby traveling up Ninth Street North in Wahpeton, nearly blended into the happy holiday hullabaloo. “It’s nice to see so many people decorating this year,” he said Tuesday, Dec. 22. “We’ve certainly got the weather for it.” Wahpeton announced the winners of the second annual Griswold Award holiday lighting contest. Once again, the winners were David and Jackie Paul, 310 Ninth St. N. The Pauls have been acclaimed for their home and lawn decorations, which this year include homemade figurines of the Grinch, his dog Max and Cindy Lou Who ...