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Arts and Entertainment

‘The Elves and the Shoemakers’ set for Mouse River Players Theatre

“The Elves and the Shoemaker” by Noah Smith, will be held on March 17- 19 and March 24 – 26 by the Mouse River Players. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m at the MRP Theatre in Minot. Prices for adults are $15, $10 for children ...

Friluftsliv: Bones help solve a 12,000-year-old mystery

To loosely translate from Norwegian to English: fri = free, lufts = air’s, liv = life The English equivalent= Outdoor Life I’ve always been fascinated by bones. My study of them began after my introduction to archaeology in the summer of 2006. The project that summer was a ...

Late winter caterpillar tent management

Start this year’s tree pest management with a stroll through the landscape. As you enjoy the scenery, be sure to look for any unwelcome pests that may be overwintering on the twigs of trees. Look for and remove egg masses of tent caterpillars now through spring. These clusters of eggs ...

Zoo News: Racing time for big changes at Roosevelt Park Zoo

Time can be a blessing or a curse depending on where you are and what you are doing. Working at the zoo has always been a matter of hurry up and wait before its time to hurry up again. It is a business of good news/bad news. Recent information has placed the zoo right in the middle of both in a ...

Hints of History: Early female deputy game warden fearless in making arrests

Mrs. Lotta Curtis Wilson, the second wife of Dr. E. H. Wilson of Towner, ND, had been appointed Special Deputy Game Warden in McHenry County in 1913. She was the only woman in this position at the time. Mrs. Wilson was a schoolteacher at a rural school located north of Drake when she was ...

Minot among 7 ND theaters to premier ‘End of the Rope’

Minot’s Oak Park Theater will be among seven select theaters in North Dakota to premier “End of the Rope,” a crime thriller set in McKenzie County in western North Dakota in 1931. The film is based on the infamous Charles Bannon case and tells the story of a town that rises up to take ...