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Northwest Arts Center opens with multiple exhibits

The Northwest Arts Center opens the fall semester at Minot State University with multiple exhibitions featuring a diverse range of artwork. It is the 31st year for the INT’L All Media annual juried exhibition, on display concurrently with "What The Print?," drawn from the MSU Collections, ...

A Second Look: Another decade brings election, goodbyes

Editor’s Note: This column is a continuation of Berg's Wednesday, Sept. 9, column. By 1890, another Lutheran pastor was serving Mouse River Country communities. This was John Pedersen. He was born in Norway and moved to the United States in 1870. He was ordained in the Norwegian and ...

Western Plains presents ‘The Pirates of Penzance’

Western Plains Opera’s season opening production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” will take place Friday, Sept. 11, and Saturday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m. in Ann Nicole Nelson Hall at Minot State University. The production is directed by Ted Christopher, produced by ...

Minot project recognized with EDC award

BISMARCK – Citizens Alley + Downtown Minot Activation Strategy was recognized during the 2026 Mid-America Economic Development Council (Mid-America EDC) Annual Awards, presented Aug. 31-Sept. 2 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. North Dakota earned four honors this year, recognizing projects that ...

A Second Look: Churches built, elections attempted

Editor’s Note: This column is a continuation of the Tuesday, Sept. 8, column. It was not until 1895 that a parsonage was built beside the Mouse River Lutheran Church. (The details of Rev. Torjus Reishus’s activities in the Mouse River Country can be found in the English translation of his ...

A Second Look: Scandinavians bring Lutheran tradition

When McHenry County and northern Stevens County – which became Ward County in May, 1885 – were settled in the early 1880s, there was a distinctively Scandinavian milieu within the populations of both counties. According to the 1885 census, McHenry County had fifty heads of households ...