Tammy Swift

Tammy Swift

For 35 years, Tammy Swift has shared all stages of her life through a weekly personal column. Her first “real world” job involved founding and running the Bismarck Tribune’s Dickinson bureau from her apartment. She has worked at The Forum four different times, during which she’s produced everything from food stories and movie reviews to breaking news and business stories. Her work has won awards from the Minnesota and North Dakota Newspaper Associations, the Society for Professional Journalists and the Dakotas Associated Press Managing Editors News Contest. As a business reporter, she gravitates toward personality profiles, cottage industry stories, small-town business features or anything quirky. She can be reached at tswift@forumcomm.com.

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The pandemic started with paper hearts and 8 p.m. howls, but devolved into conspiracy theories and anger as we grew more isolated and frustrated. Columnist asks: What have we learned?
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Barb Owen Boerger's kimonos and sarongs are pretty, but they're pretty poison to the flies, mosquitoes and pesky bugs that dare to land on them.
The Pembina Gorge offers everything from 80-million-year-old mosasaur bones to the beauty of steep valley cliffs towering over small, isolated prairies and pockets of wetlands.
Chiropractor David Gottenborg is strengthening the core of Minnesota's apple production with his 8,000-tree apple orchard near Audubon.
While it may seem unusual to find great eats at a place that sells ice scrapers and air fresheners, some convenience stores sell goodies ranging from homemade grinders to from-scratch pie.
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Dena Bishop opened her bakery in the former Norman County West Elementary last June, and it has become the hot spot for grab-and-go lunches, homemade pies and soups, breakfasts and local gifts.
The party fare included a salad containing peas. What happened next was one of the worst poisonings of its kind, so bad it taught an important lesson about food safety.
Although she doesn't have her learner's permit yet, artist/mug designer Willow Larson, 15, of Fertile, Minnesota, is shopping for a new SUV so she can eventually make deliveries.
Linda Hazzard saw the wealthy Williamson sisters as the perfect victims for her dangerous fasting 'cure.' But when one died and the other dropped to 50 pounds, authorities started paying attention.
Some of Linda Burfield Hazzard's patients described her as a gifted and intelligent healer who helped them overcome all sorts of maladies. Others considered her a serial killer.