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2 months ago | 
jamestownsun.com | Sharon Cox
Today marks the beginning of the Chinese “year of the snake.” The lunar calendar is different from the Gregorian in that it is primarily a “moon cycle” calendar rather than solar, which is what we Westerners follow. It also incorporates a number of additional aspects besides the moon, and keeping up with agricultural needs was at the base of its importance. For us today, the Chinese New Year date is earlier than it has been over the last few years.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
jamestownsun.com | Sharon Cox
On Thursday, Feb. 6, the 2025 North Dakota Governor’s Awards for the Arts will take place at the North Dakota Heritage Center/State Museum in Bismarck. According to a press release, a social hour begins at 5 p.m. with the awards and a reception at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend. The Arts in Education award is to Bismarck State College Theatre.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
jamestownsun.com | Sharon Cox
Jamestown native Patti Peterson led a discussion recently about how Jamestown has changed since she was in high school here. She and her hubby (Larry) came back to town to visit with friends, after moving away about a year ago to live nearer their grandchildren. She knew “Mrs. Young” (Mary Faith) and recalled how heartbroken she was when Mrs. Young and others couldn’t stop the opera house from being razed. “It was happening everywhere,” she said, referring to urban renewal.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
jamestownsun.com | Sharon Cox
We’re entering the season for long lists of last year’s data and the new year’s hopes and dreams that we call resolutions. We’re in a period of change and many changes meet us head on as we try to adapt to things we cannot control. The Boy Scout’s motto “Be prepared,” and one from the Beautification Committee I was on in Georgia, “Do what you can in your own corner of the world,” make sense for actually having some control of what’s eating away at our daily comforts.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
jamestownsun.com | Sharon Cox
Whether it’s baked goods or full meals, holiday traditions call for unique dishes that make wonderful gifts for those very special people in your life. North Dakota has a large immigrant population that has generously shared traditions from “the old country,” whether Germany, Norway, Sweden, Asia, the Middle East or Ukraine. Couple those customs with Native-born Sioux, the mix of cultures makes this season as aromatic as a perfume factory but much better.
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
jamestownsun.com | Sharon Cox
Drive through town after dark and check out the lights and Christmas decorations. Just imagine the place in 1871, when construction workers of the Northern Pacific Railway had settled the little village that would later be named Jamestown. If you were fortunate enough to be in a horse and buggy along the narrow roads, the lights you’d see would be gas or candle wax with flickering flames atop. By 1872, the garrison west of the James River Fort Seward would likely have a fire visible from downtown.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
jamestownsun.com | Sharon Cox
When the internet arrived and conversations emanated through clouds, our method of learning limited itself to copycat terms from bloggers and online sites such as Wikipedia and virtual versions of old-fashioned dictionaries. People searched for word meanings online, thus giving those sites data to tally words most popular that year. As we close out 2024, those sites released their findings and 2024’s “words of the year” are some fascinating ones, if not downright funny.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
jamestownsun.com | Sharon Cox
College Christmas Concerts are holiday seasonal events that give back to the school’s home city and that’s true in Jamestown this weekend. Students and faculty from the University of Jamestown will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, and again at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, to perform holiday selections. Everyone is invited to attend. If you have never been to a UJ Christmas concert, then make the upcoming one your first.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
jamestownsun.com | Sharon Cox
As we approach Thanksgiving, we usually have a mix of emotions: happiness, gratitude, sadness, remorse and peacefulness. The holiday has expectations that we normal humans see as everybody’s right and expectations: good food, joyful reunions with family, good stories of childhood, football, hunting and politics. A prayer usually starts off the meal, the traditional turkey, dressing and gravy, cranberry gel or some sort, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. If that is on your table on Nov.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
jamestownsun.com | Sharon Cox
Reed Anfinson’s Aug. 10, 2024, editorial column “Print has an enduring value,” hit the nail on its proverbial head. Holding that newspaper in hand and being able to linger over the paper, pausing as needed and going right back where you were, or better yet, rereading that story, checking some facts, without background music, without people talking over each other … or commercials … Wow, what a joy that is, was, and always will be.
