The Minot Area Community Foundation (MACF) has awarded a $10,000 challenge grant to the Minot Symphony Orchestra to purchase a five-drum set of Adams Philharmonic Timpani. MACF will match dollar-for-dollar raised up to $10,000 by Aug. 31. The grant was made possible through the Chuck & ...

GARRISON – Fort Stevenson State Park invites kite flyers of all ages to decorate the sky over the park Saturday through Monday, May 25-27, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. each day in celebration of Sky Fest. Fly your own kite at Sky Fest or witness professional kite flyers as they bring in some of ...

Minot’s 2023 Dinner on the Prairie event was recognized as “Chamber Event of the Year” at the 2024 Mid-America Chamber Executives Conference held this month in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. More than 230 guests experienced the event on Aug. 1, 2023, which was made possible by the event ...

Another artifact that is now on the grounds of Pioneer Village is an early 1900s restored mail wagon. This was donated by retired businessman Keith Bloms, who owned Bloms Lockers in Minot. It definitely is a visual conversation piece. In 1896 the U.S. Post Office Department adopted the use of ...

Combating fear is one of the greatest challenges for young zookeepers to overcome. It is not necessarily the fear of working around potentially dangerous animals, but the fear that something they do or do not do will negatively impact the animals they care for and about. From my experience, it ...

Our neighbors in the 1950s were the Grays. One of their children, Mike, was a year older than me. When I was 10, Mike swiped a couple of cigarettes from a pack belonging to his mother and invited me into their dark garage one fall evening. We lit up and puffed away as if cowboys on the open ...