My old newspaper shut down.

Goodbye, Cavalier County Republican.

I knew very little about breeding bulls and barley shows, but I got to write about them. It was my job, about 18 years ago. I have all of the WordPerfect files saved on a hard drive to prove it.

I had dial-up internet at home at the time, internet search wasn’t what it is now, and I actually had to talk to people to find out information. I couldn’t just …