Mother was a widow in her 80s during the early 2000s and managed reasonably well living alone. She kept track of and paid her own bills but appreciated help from my sister with grocery and other shopping needs now and again. This was also around the time I traveled to Kansas to pay Mom a visit. ...

A former Miss Norsk Hostfest has launched an effort to keep the essence of Norsk Hostfest alive. Amber Grause of Bismarck, who has a long family tradition with Hostfest and served as Miss Norsk Hostfest in 2007, is encouraging people who want to see the festival continue in some form to show ...

Share your Hostfest stories The Minot Daily News invites readers to share their Norsk Hostfest memories for a special page to be published next week. Whether you were a volunteer, vendor, visitor or took part in the festival in another role, The Minot Daily News welcomes your ...

The Minot Symphony Orchestra will present an afternoon of family-friendly music featuring Carnegie Hall’s “Link Up: The Orchestra Swings” on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. in Ann Nicole Nelson Hall on the campus of Minot State University. The concert is part of the orchestra’s 100th ...

The Board of Directors of Norsk Hostfest Association announced Thursday, Jan. 30, that the annual Norsk Hostfest festival, long recognized as North America’s largest Scandinavian festival, will no longer continue. It will not be held this fall. Rising costs and declining attendance have led ...

Norsk Hostfest offered great times that bring back smiles with the memories, said former Hostfest president David Reiten. “People came back year after year – as visitors, as volunteers, as sellers,” he said. “So many people were positively impacted by this. We had 4,000 volunteers. ...