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ABOUT US: TOM COYNE: Back In Circulation

After a 35-year career in broadcasting, Tom Coyne admits he’s getting old. Coyne is a former North Dakota TV sportscaster who worked in Williston, Bismarck and Fargo for the KX Network from 1980 to 1991. His last 23 years have been spent as a broadcasting instructor at Sanford-Brown College (formerly Brown Institute) in Mendota Heights, Minn. Born in south Minneapolis …


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TOM COYNE: Back In Circulation — Brainerd or Bangkok?

It was the morning after Labor Day, 1962.  I was a shy, nervous fourth-grader, attempting to fit in with my classmates on the first day of school.  Having moved from southeast Minneapolis to suburban Golden Valley, Minn., just a year before, I was slowly building friendships but still a little gunshy. Mrs. Larson, who eventually would become one of my all-time …