I first started at the Bemidji (Minn.) Pioneer as an intern in the summer of 1996. That would begin six years as a news reporter, sports reporter and copy editor for a small, six-day-per-week daily newspaper in northern Minnesota. I wrote a large range of stories from multiple beats, to features to sports, my favorite being the coverage of the Red Lake Reservation High School basketball team named the Warriors. Here is a collection of my stories from my time at the Pioneer.
Jan. 23, 1999
By Devlyn Brooks
Most of northern Minnesota received its largest snow fall of the winter Saturday, with communities close to the state's northern border getting 5 inches or more.
The Bemidji area, which had received between 5 to 15 inches of snow all season, had received about 2 inches by mid-afternoon Saturday, according to the National Weather Service in Grand Forks, N.D. And the snow was still falling.
Although the snow probably was welcomed by winter recreationalists and tourism businesses, the surface low pressure system responsible for the snow also brought cold temperatures.
NWS meteorologist Greg Gust said the below zero temperatures and 15- to 30-mph winds would probably produce minus-40 to minus-60-degree wind chill factors last night.
The weather system that moved through the area Saturday dropped snow from the Minnesota/Canadian border south to about Park Rapids, Gust said. Most of the snow fell by the border and continued in a dissipating fashion southward.
Gust said that same system -- which affected eastern North Dakota and all of northwestern Minnesota -- should be over northern Lake Superior this morning, but there still is a chance for some morning snow flurries here.
Today should feature much of the same cold weather. Gust said temperatures should increase marginally, but highs probably will stick about zero.
A nasty northwestern wind measuring 10 to 20 mph should keep things feeling cool, however, producing possible wind chills of minus 30 to minus 40 degrees.
Gust added, however, that the sun should begin to break out of the clouds today, with the clouds of Saturday's low pressure system moving east.
Further into the week, temperatures will begin to rise, according to the NWS forecast.
Monday should be dry with lows about minus 10 degrees and highs in the teens.
Tuesday presents another opportunity for snow, with lows in the single digits and highs in the teens.
Temperatures could reach the 20s again near midweek.
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