A group of Minot artists is combining efforts to open a cooperative gallery in the Artspace building. Their mission: to create great art for the community and a great community for artists. Artists and patrons are welcome to become members, a ribbon cutting is scheduled December 1st.
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Three defense department contractors, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, and Northrop Grumman, are in competition for a massive federal defense department contract that will upgrade the nation’s three ICBM missile wings — one of which is operated by Minot Air Force Base. That competition brought Lockheed-Martin executives to Minot this week. Eloise Ogden has the story with The
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Representatives from State, regional, and county fairs in North and South Dakota as well as vendors, entertainers, and others were in Minot this weekend talking shop, new ideas, and making plans for next summer’s events. The event was held in Minot for the first time ever.
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Representatives from Trinity Hospital were in front of the Ward County Commission on Tuesday morning outlining the financing status and construction plans for Minot’s new hospital. The effort will require the sale of nearly $430 million in bonds, and because it is a nonprofit organization, it must facilitate the sale of those bonds through a government
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Jill Schramm with the Minot Daily continues her coverage of the proposed technical education center that will be — in part — financed with the City’s disaster resilience dollars. The next step, surveying local businesses to gather their input on needs.
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The Corp has two different activities going on with respect to our local flood protection. First, they are conducting their feasibility study; they were in town last month to hear public comment. But they’re also doing an environmental review on the entire Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Project. And they want you to comment on
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Jill Schramm with the Minot Daily News digs in deeper with the idea that a career and technical training center is an idea important for Minot and the region.
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MSU computer science students rose to the top at a recent regional competition that required practical problem solving and programming schools. MSU has been attending the competition for eight years, this was the first year they earned top prize.
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Part of the City of Minot’s disaster resilience efforts includes creating a more diverse, resilient economy. And one idea that’s being explored in connection to that goal is the development of a technical center used to educate underserved professions and vocations, perhaps in partnership with MSU. Jill Schramm has the story.
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The Souris River basin originates in Saskatchewan, dips into North Dakota and returns to Manitoba where it joins the Assiniboine River. And it’s all part of a larger global system that will be impacted by climate change. That was the message of Bob Sandford, EPCOR chairman for Water and Climate Security with the United Nations University
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An ad hoc committee formed to look at Minot’s liquor licenses with the hopes of finding policy more suited to the current needs of the city discussed the City’s license cap regulations yesterday. The current laws tie the number of available licenses to population; the committee tabled the issue for further discussion.
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Six million dollars in unused flood recovery money intended for buyouts and allocated from the State Water Commission to Ward County will likely be spent within the City of Minot. The County Commission voted Tuesday to allow spending of those dollars within the City with the provision that they remain in the loop and provide
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Minot’s Domestic Violence Crisis Center is now clear of a significant financial burden. With the help two generous benefactors and many others in the community, the center was able to payoff debt remaining from 2013 construction of an expanded campus. Jill Schramm of the Minot Daily has the full story.
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There already several pipelines under Lake Sakakawea and several more are in the planning and review stages. And the Corp of Engineers was in Garrison on Monday night to listen to the concerns of the public. Kim Fundingsland has the story.
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A City of Minot employee on the job for less than three weeks resigned from her position in the planning department last week, and she blew the whistle on some questionable city practices on her way out. Read the full story on the Minot Daily News.
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At Thursday’s regularly scheduled School Board meeting, the board approved the committee-recommended map with a few small changes and set the policy for providing exceptions. Read the story by entering through a Google search page.
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