North Plains News

When I stepped into the role of editing the Argus Opinion page early this year, it felt as if I'd been handed a set of paints and a blank canvas.

Fruition's ability to walk on water is useful this week. The string quintet plays Friday at North Shore and Saturday at South Shore.

For a year, lifelong Banks resident Travis Herinckx and his partner, Angel Philippi, successfully ran a business from their home selling goods they'd purchased from abandoned storage units.

Lisa McKinney tags an order of Hot Skwash headed to a customer in Northfield, Ill.

Steam rises from composting material on a crisp morning at Nature's Needs as a bulldozer adds another load to the end of the row.

Three women in mud-tipped shoes cooed like new mothers at baby shoots of herbs and vegetables in a North Plains plant nursery.

A Washington County farmer sprays fertilizer on a grass field directly across the street from the growing city of North Plains in this 2009 file photo.