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Have a comment or a gripe? Write

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You’ll soon see on several stories that appear on inforum.com a link to write a letter to the editor to comment on a story.

The link will take you to directly to your email client. This system will operate the same way our current letters to the editor policy works. We want to give our readers easier access to comment on stories.

Per the norm, letters to the editor should include author’s name, address and phone number. Generally, letters should be no longer than 250 words. All letters are subject to editing and publication value.

While not all stories will carry the direct link, you are certainly welcome to comment on any story or circumstance.

To write a letter to the editor, you can use this link: Send a letter to the editor.

For questions about our policies, call our Opinion Page Editor Jack Zaleski at (701) 241-5521 or email Forum Online Editor Rob Beer at rbeer@forumcomm.com.

What’s coming up on inforum

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We’re beginning our full transition to a new video player on our company sites. One of the major changes for the readers is that related video will appear on the top of an article in a wider format.

It’ll also be much easier to browse past videos and share content on social media platforms as well as email.

Speaking of video, we’ll be running 9/11 memorial video on Sunday on our site, beginning at 7:40 a.m. It’ll supply a loop of videos you can play when the live feed from the 9/11 memorial service is not being streamed.

Here’s the 9/11 schedule for Sunday:

7:40 AM         Program begins

Introduction of citywide moment of silence

7:46 AM         Moment of silence (observance of time first plane struck North Tower)

(Houses of worship will toll their bells throughout the City)

Introduction of the reading of the names

Family of victims of 2001 and 1993 attacks will begin reading the names in pairs

8:03 AM         Moment of silence (observance of time second plane struck South Tower)

Reading of names continues/music resumes

8:37 AM         Moment of silence (observance of time Flight 77 struck the Pentagon)

Reading of names continues/music resumes

8:59 AM         Moment of silence (observance of time of fall of the South Tower)

Reading of names continues/music resumes

9:03 AM       Moment of silence (observance of time Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania)

Reading of names continues/music resumes

9:28 AM       Moment of silence (observance of time of fall of the North Tower)

Reading of names continues/music resumes

Reading of names concludes

Taps performed by three trumpeters (NYPD, FDNY and PAPD)

Noon          Program concludes

 

On this date … and other notes

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Highlights on this date from the inforum.com archive:

Five years ago

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – The lawyer defending former Fargo resident Joseph Duncan III, accused of killing three people, has asked for details about Idaho’s method of execution in what could be a first step in challenging its constitutionality.

Public defender John Adams earlier this week requested the state’s protocol on the method of execution from prosecutors. He wants to know what drugs the state would use during lethal injection and how they would be administered.

Four years ago

Donny Schatz says he isn’t focused solely on big-money races. But after winning a $150,000 race Saturday, the earnings are piling up.

The Fargo driver won the Knoxville Nationals in Knoxville, Iowa,  this weekend for the second straight year, collecting the most lucrative purse in sprint car racing.

“Last year it was kind of like we finally got over the hump after finishing second four times,” said Schatz, who won the World of Outlaws sprint car championship last season. “(Saturday), it was like, ‘Wow, we just won the Knoxville Nationals.’  ”

Three years ago

WAHPETON, N.D. – Residents were drying out here after more than 6 inches of rain fell on parts of the city Monday, flooding streets and infiltrating some basements.

“I know there’s some people with just some minor water in their basements, just a few of them, not a lot,” said Brett Lambrecht, Richland County emergency manager.

The National Weather Service in Grand Forks received an unofficial report of 6.7 inches of rain Monday at the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton, meteorologist Vince Godon said.

Lambrecht said he emptied 7.25 inches from his rain gauge Monday in Wahpeton, and about 4.75 inches of that came between 6 and 9 p.m.
“It was coming down like cats and dogs,” he said.

Two years ago

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – A Grand Forks mother who pleaded guilty in a case of breast-feeding while drunk has been arrested on a warrant stemming from her previous arrest just hours after her sentencing on a child neglect charge.

County deputies arrested 26-year-old Stacey Anvarinia on Tuesday on a warrant that resulted from her run-in with city police Friday night, the same day she received a suspended sentence for breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby while drunk.

One year ago

Prosecutors have filed a murder charge against the man accused of shooting Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Dewey.

Thomas Fairbanks now faces second-degree murder instead of attempted murder for the February 2009 shooting in Mahnomen, Minn., when Dewey was responding to a drunken driver call.

Other notes:

  • Inforum.com is beginning to use a new video player. The system will be better equipped to handle advertising during our videos and be more accessible on various media devices. Plus, it’s simply faster and more reliable. It can also handle live streaming, something we used during the Fargo Marathon.
  • We’re also increasing our content for the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks. You can find several articles and photos here.
  • Our Areavoices team met with several high school groups this week urging them to utilize our sports ticker and our blog sites. If you are with a school organization and would like to find our more information, email Shane Mercer, our community content coordinator.

Give us your feedback on larger featured content, new mobile site

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FARGO – Today we introduced larger photos to highlight our key stories on the top of inforum.com as well as across our other Forum Communications Co. websites.

What do you think about the new look?

We have also rolled out a new inforum mobile site this week and users of an iPhone, iTouch, iPad or Android device should benefit from the new experience. The site can be accessed now at mobile.inforum.com.

The site’s layout conforms to the width of the device in either landscape or portrait orientation. Categories, leading off with recent updates, are sectioned off and allow visitors to see the top headlines in each category.

There will also be a bookmark bubble on Apple-based devices that show the user how to add the newspaper shortcut favicon to the desktop. This will show up a few times until the user decides to add it or go away if simply ignored.

The HTML5-based site site also allows for a quick leap over to our Areavoices blogs.

The marketplace maps also utilize geolocation, if the user decides to use that function to show different advertising offers near their location.

FCC Interactive product development manager Chris Welle, project manager Zac Echola, programmer Tim Hanson and graphic artist Kim Le helped develop the new site.

Simple ways to navigate around inforum.com

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There’s more to inforum.com than just the homepage. Our homepage search bar is becoming more robust and our system for tagging stories throughout the Forum Communications Co. network of websites will soon be going through some changes. End result? Our changes will soon help you discover more stories you want to read and find more information you need to know.

Our “tags” help categorize our content on inforum. They are listed at the bottom of each story.

For instance, if you ran across the story posted Monday “Bison tops football recruiting class with pair of signees,” on the bottom of that story, you will find these tag words:

If you are interested in more Bison football news, click on that first tag, “bison football.” It will bring you to a page with articles and blogs that share that tag.

These tags can help you find content for all types of stories. So if you ever wondered what those blue words are for, give them a click.