Remembering Fargo television's Mel Stone, and his 'words and pictures and sound'

Remembering Fargo television's Mel Stone, and his 'words and pictures and sound'

FARGO — Any regular viewer of television news in Fargo-Moorhead from 1983 through 2009 surely knew the name, face, voice and work of Mel Stone. A native of Solway, Minnesota, who would become a Ph.D. in economics and university professor, Stone later turned to journalism, working as a news reporter and storyteller with “The Stone Report” on KVLY-TV in Fargo, previously known as KTHI-TV. Lean, always sporting a silver, stubble beard, wire-rimmed…