This weekend the Scandinavian Heritage Association is hosting its annual Midsummer Festival at the Shirley Bicentennial Park, also known as the Scandinavian Heritage Park, from Friday, June 19, through Saturday, June 20. Traditionally, the Midsummer Festival is held around the time of the ...

The first case involving murder or manslaughter from Ward County was tried in Minnewaukan in January, 1887. Elmer Fosberry (or Fausberry), a teamster, had shot and killed contractor Frank Finnie at a corral near Gasmann Coulee on Monday, August 23, 1886. At his trial, held on Thursday, January ...

Edmund Hackett was still living in McHenry County in 1884. He had been a founder of Villard, which he named for a railroad president. He had come to the Mouse River Valley for the first time in the winter of 1881 and 1882 to survey a possible railroad route from Bismarck to the Turtle ...

The Minot State University Summer Theatre is bringing “Young Frankenstein” to life for the first time on the Josh Duhamel Stage at the Amphitheater. The 61st season kicks off on Wednesday, June 17, with the musical that follows the storyline of the Mel Brooks movie of the same name. The ...

In the summer of 1882, a caravan of ten adults wended its way across northern Stevens County in search of a place to settle. For the most part, they chose locations west of the future site of Minot. These adults were Henry and Tomine (Minnie) Gasmann, Sever (or Sivert) and Sarah Anderson, Ole ...

It was June 19, 1937, when violence erupted outside Republic Steel's Stop 5 plant on Poland Avenue. Workers had picketed for weeks as part of the nationwide Little Steel Strike, a bitter battle over union recognition. Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube refused to follow industry ...