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TRF Times

Thief River Falls and NW Minnesota's regional newspaper and custom print shop. www.trftimes.com

07/21/2025

It was brought to our attention that there will be a planned power outage on Thursday July 24th from 2-6pm. Please plan accordingly. Thank you!

07/19/2025

Posted at 2:45 PM on Friday, July 18th: An Air Quality Alert has been issued for northern Minnesota. The alert runs from 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 19th, until 9 a.m. on Monday, July 21st. More info is available at https://www.pca.state.mn.us/news-and-stories/air-quality-alert-issued-due-to-wildfire-smoke-from-saturday-july-19-to-monday-july-21-for-northwest

07/16/2025

We have an outage planned for Thursday, July 17th. Starting at about 9am for approximately 4 hours, while work is performed on the Holt Substation. The outage may affect Red Lake Electric members in Huntly, Como, West Valley, New Maine, Spruce Valley, Cedar, Marsh Grove, New Folden, Holt and East Valley Townships in Marshall County.

Calls will be going out to those this outage will affect, but if you want to double-check if you will be affected, feel free to call the office.

07/15/2025

The front entrance of City Hall will be closed this morning for repairs. Please use the south entrance or you can drop utility payments off in the drop box in the parking lot.

07/15/2025

📣The City is aware of a water main break in the 1300 block of Labree. Please use caution as crews work on repairs.

07/14/2025

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has extended the air quality alert for northern Minnesota. The alert runs until 6 p.m. on Monday, July 14. Air quality is expected to reach the red AQI category, which is unhealthy for everyone.

07/11/2025

Posted at 3:45 PM Friday, July 11, 2025: An Air Quality Alert for wildfire smoke has been expanded to all of Minnesota and extended through 9am Monday, July 14th. Find additional details at https://pca.state.mn.us/air-water-land-climate/air-quality-forecast

07/11/2025

An air quality alert has been issued due to wildfire smoke for Friday, July 11, for northwest and north central Minnesota. Air quality is expected to reach the purple AQI category in northwest Minnesota, which is very unhealthy for everyone. Learn more: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/news-and-stories/air-quality-alert-issued-due-to-wildfire-smoke-for-friday-july-11-for-northwest-and-north-central

07/07/2025

-If you are NOT riding the bus this year and have in the past, please fill out the "Parent Transport Form".
-If you have moved, please fill out the "Transportation change of address form".
-If your child(ren) will be going anywhere other than home please fill out the "Child care transportation request form"

All forms can be found at the link below.

https://www.trfschools.org/departments/transportation

All forms are due August 8th, 2025. Transportation open house is August 5th-8th, 2025. Our office hours will be 6:00am-5:00pm.

If you email anything throughout the year, forms/changes please email at least 2 people in case of someone being gone. Our emails can be found on the school website if you need them later through the year.

Phone: 218-681-7077
FAX: 218-681-3820
Emails: [email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

If you are interested in becoming a bus driver, please contact Ronnie Skallet at the above email or phone number.

07/07/2025

We have a planned power outage scheduled for tomorrow July 8th, starting about 8am for approximately 4 hours. This may affect Red Lake Electric Members in Highland, Goodridge, and Clover Leaf Townships in Pennington County, Grand Plains, Moylan, and Espelie Townships in Marshall County, and Lee Township in Beltrami County.

07/02/2025

The City of Thief River Falls now has a page. It can be viewed here.

This page is used for official communication by the City of Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Please note, this page is not monitored 24/7.

07/02/2025

We've finally caught up (the joys of being short-staffed) and have placed all of our available sports photos on www.snapped4u.com/trftimes, where they can be purchased.

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A Little History

Records for Thief River Falls indicate that Thief River Falls has had at least 100 years of newspaper tradition to be proud of and it began with two newspapers.

The first newspaper, The Press, was published in 1889 when the settlement consisted of about 200 people. It was owned by E. C. Knappen and A. E. White, but was soon purchased by the Evenson Brothers and, in 1891, H. E. Mussey purchased The Press from the Evensons.

In 1911, Mussey began publishing the Thief River Falls Times, which he published until l912.

The News, the first newspaper of record noted by the State Historical Society for Thief River Falls, was moved from Red Lake Falls to Thief River Falls. (The State Historical Society has an issue of the paper from 1904.) During this time there were at least three newspapers in Thief River Falls.

The Press and Review were purchased and consolidated by F. E. Packard in February of 1905.

On May 23, 1923, the Thief River Falls Times burned to the ground. Three years prior, while the newspaper was located in the Union block, fire swept the plant and almost entirely destroyed it.

On October 1, 1923, The Times was purchased by Alvin E. Mattson, C. Waldemar Mattson and Edgar N. Mattson of Warren and the Warren Sheaf. The three brothers took over the paper after it had been printed at the Warren Sheaf for half a year because of the fire which destroyed its plant in Thief River Falls.

During the 1930s another newspaper appeared on the scene, The Thief River Falls Forum. Roy M. Aalbu and Harry L. Schuster were the owners. Bernice Berge was city editor from May 1, 1934 to January 5, 1935. The Forum office was located in the basement of the Elks building on the LaBree Avenue side.

Norman Holen, whose witty articles we still reprint, joined the Thief River Falls Times as city editor in 1930.

In 1949, Clarence Mattson was the business manager of The Times; Robert Mattson, the plant superintendent; Norman A. Holen, the city editor; William Dahlquist, the editor; and Huck Olson, the sports reporter.

Dahlquist served as editor of The Times until 1964 when Marvin Lundin, a native of Warren who had worked at the Warren Sheaf from 1954 to 1961, became editor. Lundin had been a reporter and later the city editor at The Times for three years before becoming the editor.

In 1965, The Times moved to its present location at 324 Main Avenue North from LaBree Avenue. The October 14, 1968, issue was the first edition printed on the new offset press and on October 16, the first four-color photo was run.

As of 1968, the Thief River Falls Times printed semi-weekly issues. The Times printing department also printed newspapers for East Grand Forks, Roseau, Greenbush, Middle River, Warren, Red Lake Falls, Williams, and the North Star News, a consolidated newspaper for Lake Bronson, Karlstad, Kennedy and Lancaster.

On August 1, 1986, John P. Mattson from Warren purchased The Times from Clarence W. Mattson, Robert C. Mattson and Marvin Lundin.

In July 2010, the Times was purchased by MCM Media LLC. Presently, Kathy Svidal is the publisher; David D. Hill, editor; Scott DCamp, sports editor; April Scheinoha, reporter. DeDe Coltom and Tom Williams handle the advertising department. The publishing plant is supervised by Traci Joppru. Doug Booth, runs the large offset press. The Times employs 15 workers.

In 1990, The Times switched from a semi-weekly to a weekly newspaper, published on Wednesdays with a circulation of approximately 4,500. The Monday edition of The Times was combined with the Northern Minnesota Shoppers Guide to create a total market coverage product called the Northern Watch, which is now published on Saturday and has a circulation of approximately 22,700. The Northern Watch is northwest Minnesota's regional newspaper and is distributed free of charge in this area.

Since The Times and Northern Watch put its website online, http://www.trftimes.com, in January of 1997, the average number of visitors per month has dramatically increased to approximately 15,000 with most visits occurring on Tuesdays.

It is also interesting to note where many of our visitors reside. Many of our online readers are from outside of the United States. They commonly report that it’s nice to be able to keep informed about local events and news. These out-of-country visitors come from faraway places such as Norway, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Indonesia, Japan, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Singapore, and Malaysia.

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