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    Jake Lindberg of Duluth plays with his 10-month-old son, Theodore, during a class for new dads at Essentia Health St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth recently. Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com
    Parenting classes help new dads ease into the transition
    Jamie Howie’s dad joked that she was having triplets. One week later, an ultrasound confirmed he was wrong, but not by much. The Howies are...
    lifestyle/family5 hours 50 min ago
    Sef Scott, 17, with his mother, Vicki, on prom night. Photo from Vicki Scott
    Autistic boy's classmates had never heard him speak. What he finally said at graduation blew them away.
    People who know Sef Scott know he doesn't normally speak. The 17-year-old from Plano, Texas, has autism, and other than quoting lines from favorite...
    lifestyle12 hours 40 min ago
    June 17, 2018
    Josiah, 12, and Isaac Sundby, 11, help their father, Jonathan, unload gravel from a pickup bed into the bucket of a skid steer in rural East Grand Forks, Minn. on Thursday, June 14, 2018. Nick Nelson / Grand Forks Heraldplay button
    Group teaches dads to give gift of time, teaches children 'this is what a father does'
    EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn.—Jonathan Sundby takes his role as a father seriously. So seriously, he joined a local group, All Pro Dad, that...
    lifestyle/familyJune 17, 2018 - 8:44am
    John Hughes' grandchildren hold the favorite toys he had made for them over the years. From left, Briella Hughes, 5; Hughes with granddaughter Natalia, 10 months; Kelton, 8; and Treston, 11. Karen Tolkkinen / Forum News Service
    Grandpa discovers love of woodworking, toymaking
    ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- John Hughes always thought he’d be a carpenter. Wood had always attracted him, and as a kid he’d watch carpenters working...
    lifestyle/familyJune 17, 2018 - 7:36am
    Jessie Veeder's special place is special for everyone who has spent time there over the years. Jessie Veeder / Forum News Service
    Commentary: Family ranch is a special place, not just for the ones who live there now
    "This place, there's just something about it that makes people feel like it's their own. It's special that way I think," my husband said as he...
    lifestyle/familyJune 17, 2018 - 6:53am
    Tammy Swift, columnist
    Commentary: One good 'act of Momness' remembered 40 years later
    We can hang onto grudges, slights, insults and snubs for years. But who knew that a single act of kindness could last longer than all of them?...
    lifestyle/familyJune 17, 2018 - 6:52am
    Nick and Ashlea Garrison paint their new home in Dayton's Bluff in St. Paul on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Jean Pieri / St. Paul Pioneer Press
    First-time homebuyers should get pre-approved, expect quick process
    ST. PAUL—Texas transplants Ashlea and Nick Garrison attended a Twin Cities homebuying class on a Saturday in early May. The couple met...
    lifestyle/home-and-gardenJune 17, 2018 - 6:45am
    Commentary: Are you connecting with your children?
    When I think of what it takes to be a great dad, one of the key characteristics is a consistent commitment to connect with your children; to...
    lifestyle/faithJune 17, 2018 - 6:31am
    June 16, 2018
    The odd-looking growths on this cedar are the spore-producing bodies from a fungal disease called cedar apple rust. Submitted photo
    Unusual, slimy growths on cedar identified
    Q: I've attached a picture of a probable fungus growing on our cedar trees. It's like Jell-O, slimy, smells like fish when touched, is bright...
    lifestyle/home-and-gardenJune 16, 2018 - 8:14am
    A Japanese beetle on a leaf. Thinkstock photo
    As emerald ash borer beetle approaches, an update on invasive insects
    When it was first reported that the ravenous Japanese beetle had entered North Dakota and Minnesota, and the tree-killing machine called emerald...
    lifestyle/home-and-gardenJune 16, 2018 - 8:13am
    Carol Bradley Bursack, Forum columnist Michael Vosburg / Forum News Service
    Commentary: Celebrate Father's Day with Dad, even if he may not recognize family
    Dear Carol: My father-in-law has late-stage Alzheimer's and he no longer knows the family. My husband's heart breaks when he sees his dad, and...
    lifestyle/familyJune 16, 2018 - 7:26am
    Roxane Salonen
    Commentary: 'Last girl to go' brings mix of emotions
    During a summer vacation in Duluth several years ago, I whispered to my husband, "Wouldn't it be neat if one of the kids went to college here...
    lifestyle/faithJune 16, 2018 - 7:12am
    Volunteers plant a crabapple tree along the Irving bike path in 2013. File / News Tribune
    Ask a Master Gardener: Improper planting can kill a tree years later
    Q: I just noticed that our willow tree didn't bear any leaves except a few on the lower branch. The soil is always wet, and it gets plenty of...
    lifestyleJune 16, 2018 - 5:00am
    June 15, 2018
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    Commentary: With over 40 years between the birth of my two daughters, I am two different fathers
    Still shaken by Bobby Kennedy's assassination six days earlier, I sat in the hospital waiting room mindlessly thumbing through a May 1968 Rolling...
    lifestyle/familyJune 15, 2018 - 2:18pm
    In "White Right: Meeting the Enemy," documentary filmmaker Deeyah Khan interviews Jeff Schoep, commander of the National Socialist Movement. imdb.com
    INDIEWATCH: Director’s take on ‘White Right’ feels personal
    Deeyah Khan goes where she’s afraid to go. In documentary “Jihad,” she examines radicalism. She taps into honor killings in “Banaz: A...
    lifestyle/home-and-gardenJune 15, 2018 - 1:45pm
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