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Bottineau band returns for Salute to Seniors

The Minot Senior Coalition is bringing Vegas-style glamor and glitz to Minot with its 28th Annual Salute to Seniors where music, games and a good meal combine to bring the Minot community and its senior citizens together. The Salute to Seniors will take place Tuesday, May 12, from 9 a.m.-3 ...

Seven Ranges survey changed country

Info box The original surveyors who joined with Thomas Hutchins in mapping the Seven Ranges. Brev. Brigadier General Benjamin Tupper (Massachusetts) Lieutenant William W. Morris (New York) Captain Absalom Martin (New Jersey) Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Sherman (Connecticut) James Simpson ...

Ballet studio to present ‘The Messiah’

The Rinat Mouzafarov Institute of Dance and Ballet Theatre will present “The Messiah” on Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10, in Ann Nicole Nelson on the Minot State University campus. “It’s a bigger show but a very exciting show,” Mouzafarov said of the production featuring 70 ...

Retirement’s Comic Relief: How to increase longevity

A 15-year Norwegian study of 53,556 men and women completed in 2016 claimed a link between humor and mortality. Laughing women had 48% less risk of death from all causes, 73% lower risk of death from heart disease and an 83% lower risk of death from infection. Men who chortled could expect ...

A Second Look: Early mail carriers faced challenges

(First in a two-part series) In the summer of 1867, Fort Stevenson was built along the banks of the Missouri River, and Fort Totten was built along the shores of Devils Lake. Once built, they were manned by companies of the 22nd Infantry. There were two companies at Fort Stevenson and three companies at Fort Totten. The officer in charge of all five companies – as well as five more companies stationed at Fort Buford – was Colonel Regis de Trobriand, whose headquarters were at Fort Stevenson. He was in charge at Fort Stevenson from August 1867 until April or May 1869, when he was ...