Each year at this time, I share some reflections on how The Monitor has evolved and where it’s pointed. I do this as a matter of transparency: Just as The Monitor expects government and other civic ...
This annual special issue of The Monitor is anchored in loss: The people you see here, all of whom lived, grew up in, or were otherwise connected to Jefferson County, died in 2024; their obituaries ...
Dee was one of God’s amazing children. She was inspired by all things God created and she enjoyed them to the fullest. She was very much an outdoors person – gardening, camping, fishing, hunting. She ...
Losing a child is something of indescribable pain, leaving a void that seems impossible to fill. Kennady, our beautiful daughter, left this earth tragically this year, and a great part of us went with ...
Mom was raised in Fargo, ND, and as that town grew so did the pace of crime, gangs, and other dangers. She did not want her three small children living in that harsh city life, and she hoped to slow ...