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Learning Lab explores pottery techniques

WILLISTON — Visit the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Williston for this month’s Confluence Learning Lab: Pottery, to be held Saturday, Dec. 5, at 2 p.m. This free, family-friendly program is open to all ages. In this hands-on activity, explore traditional pottery techniques and create your own coiled clay vessels. Learn about the materials, designs and purposes behind various pottery pieces in the exhibits. This program blends art, history and creativity. Confluence Learning Lab is part of the ND250 commemoration celebrating the country’s 250th anniversary.

MRP to perform Christmas show

Mouse River Players will present “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” under the direction of Holly Eidness, with choreography by Paula Simonson. Shows will be held Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20 and 22, and again Nov. 27-28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Mouse River Players Theatre, 115 1st St. SE. A Sunday matinee will be held Nov. 29 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at the box office or from the Mouse River Players website.

RETIREMENT’S COMIC RELIEF: Navigating political conversations isn’t easy

Whenever an election draws close, expressing political opinions, perhaps tainted with television commentator-styled rhetoric, can lead to tense conversations between friends or family. Exchanges have potential to become heated compared with those during non-election times. An event that ...

A Second Look: Pioneer woman becomes real estate investor

Editorial Note: Part two of a two-part series When Mary Nash moved to Minot in 1891, she brought two daughters along with her. The older daughter, Marea Stella, was a year-and-a-half old. The younger daughter, Angela Clara, had been born in 1890 and was, perhaps, only six or seven months old. ...

A Second Look: Early Minot brought trade, real estate deals

Editorial Note: Part one of a two-part series The month of October 1895 was a busy one on the Fort Berthold Reservation. Members of the Three Affiliated Tribes were engaged in lining up enough wagons to haul their annual rations back to Fort Berthold from Minot, where railroads were ...

Medora Christmas show coming to town

The traveling Magical Medora Christmas show, which has become a beloved Christmas tradition in communities across the upper Midwest, will be back for another season starting Nov. 30 in northwestern North Dakota. The show will take place in the following cities at the following locations, dates and times: – Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. in Concordia Lutheran Church, Crosby. – Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Williston High School Auditorium. – Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Watford City High School Auditorium. – Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. in Tioga Community Center. – Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Ann Nicole Nelson ...