The Mayor said if those places affected would take the money saved by not being charged for the total cost of the improvement, and apply that money to building parking facilities, they would have [...]Read More... from On This Day | Build[...]
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Michigan’s New Tougher Limits on Factory Farm Waste Are a Long Time Coming
Michigan’s long-delayed push to curb factory farm pollution is finally becoming real policy. After more than five years of legal wrangling, the state’s tougher rules on how large animal operations manage manure are taking effect — a shift environmental advocates say is[...]
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On This Day | B-52s Are Coming!
The Minot area is along one of seven air corridors recently allocated by the Federal Aviation Agency for use by S-A-C in its low-level training, and both the six engine jet B-47’s and eight [...]Read More... from On This Day | B-52s[...]
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On This Day | A Tragic End for a Political Figure
51-year old Emil Simonson, rural Berthold farmer, was sentenced by District Judge Eugene A. Burdick to a term of three to five years in the State Penitentiary on a charge of negligent homicide, in [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]
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On This Day | Rebuilding History
The For housed the famed Seventh Cavalry that rode to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876 when it met the combined forces of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indian parties. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Rebuilding History
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On This Day | What Can We Do in a Year?
To qualify for the contest each community submitted a list of community betterment projects a year ago as a goal to be achieved during the year. The scrapbooks contain pictorial and printed matter depicting [...]Read More... from On This Day | What[...]
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A Day in the Fall with a Game Warden – NDGF – 11-17-2025
As hunting season fills western North Dakota’s fields, game wardens like Zach Shukart are logging long days alongside the growing number of hunters heading outdoors. Most are following the rules, he says, but a few familiar violations still show up each year—from[...]
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On This Day | How to Find the Minot Air Force Base
The holes, 48 inches deep were filled on Saturday afternoon with concrete for the landmarks. [...]Read More... from On This Day | How to Find the Minot Air Force Base
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On This Day | Trying Out a New Column
The Ward County Independent offers its readers a new column entitled The Road We Travel. To carry on such an effort, the services of an analyst have been secured. Letters from our readers will [...]Read More... from On This Day | Trying[...]
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On This Day | Learn from the Past and Watch Your Step
Louis Ellingson, about 60, of Plaza was killed early Sunday when he mistakenly entered the rear door of the A. B. Arness home here and tumbled down the basement stairs. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Learn from the Past and[...]
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On This Day | Industry, Doctors, and Roads Wanted
If North Dakotans are eagerly interested in discovering methods of attracting industry, more meetings will be held in other areas of North Dakota. Principal topics to be discussed will be prospect for a petro-chemical [...]Read More... from On This Day | Industry,[...]
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Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation
You’ve probably noticed them: rogue shopping carts scattered across parking lots like metal tumbleweeds. A psychologist spent months analyzing hundreds of confrontations between cart abandoners and those who call them out, and what he found is revealing. The excuses range from creative[...]
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On This Day | Senseless Violence Leads to Senseless Sentence
We left the courtroom, our first feeling of surprise now turning to one of anger. From the comments we heard from other spectators at the hearing, we had lots of company. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Senseless Violence Leads to[...]
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On This Day | Winter Blew In
Scenes such as the one above were common in Minot this week as winter weather blew in with a fury. Snow which started to fall over the weekend totalled better than 8 inches by [...]Read More... from On This Day | Winter[...]
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Kentucky’s Old Time Music Jams Are Helping Transplants Build Community
Old-time jams may look like casual gatherings, but in Lexington they’ve become a quiet engine of connection — a space where newcomers, lifelong Kentuckians, and musicians of all skill levels find a place to belong. What started with one woman bringing pies[...]
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Dakota Gardener: A little nudge to help young trees
As far as I’m concerned, it’s been a gorgeous fall. The trees put on a great color show and then dropped their leaves in showers of yellow, red, gold and orange. Around here, they’re mostly yellow. Some of the lilacs were a[...]