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The first newspaper to be published in Thief River Falls was The Press in 1889. The second paper, The News, began publication in 1890 in Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, as the Red Lake Falls Times, then moved to Thief River Falls in 1893 and changed its name to the Thief River Falls News. Yet another paper, The Review, began operations in 1903.
The station is part of the Ingstad Minnesota Radio Network. KTRF reports local news, sports, weather, community information and obituaries. KTRF is part of Thief River Falls Radio, which also includes: KTRF-FM 94.1, KKAQ AM 1460, and KKDQ FM 99.3, Sjoberg's Cable Channel 3 and a weekday news letter publication - The Radio Gram.
Agnes Israelson (July 22, 1896 – October 30, 1989) [1] was the first woman in Minnesota to serve as a city mayor.. In the October 29, 1953, issue of the Thief River Falls Times, the paper reported that Mrs. Israelson had beaten Harry Simonson, who had been seeking a fourth term as mayor of Thief River Falls, 1,204 to 978.
Engelstad was born on January 28, 1930, in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. He was one of five children born to Christian and Madeline (Thill) Engelstad. His grandfather, Peder was a Norwegian immigrant from Vang, Hedmark. [2] During high school, Engelstad worked a summer job at AGSCO farm supply company, where his father was a salesman. [3]
Thief River Falls takes its name from a geographic feature, the falls of the Red Lake River at its confluence with the Thief River.The name of the river is a loose translation of the Ojibwe phrase Gimood-akiwi ziibi, literally, the "Stolen-land river" or "Thieving-land river", which originated when a band of Dakota Indians occupied a secret encampment along the river, hence "stealing" the land ...
James McNeil Stephenson (November 4, 1796 – April 16, 1877) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician who served several terms in the Virginia House of Delegates representing western Virginia counties which in his lifetime became part of the state of West Virginia.
The Best Obituaries from Legendary New York Times Reporter Robert McG. Thomas. [4] The author of a starred Kirkus Review of 52 McGs wrote, "For the last half of the 1990s, readers of the New York Times could be excused if they searched out Thomas's work before they bothered with the front-page lead. Known as 'McGs.'—after the veteran reporter ...
David Thorstad (October 15, 1941 – August 1, 2021) [1] [2] was an American political activist who co-founded or ran a number of homosexual rights groups following the Stonewall riots in 1969, including as a former president of New York's Gay Activists Alliance. [3]