Bobcat traces roots to Northern Prairies By LANE SUNWALL May 15 — On this day, May 15, 2006, the Ingersoll-Rand Company announced plans to sell off its Bobcat machinery division. Bobcat’s parent company was hoping to move out of the construction machinery business but was willing to ...

Arlene Saugstad was born on this day in 1912. I first met her in 1978. She and her husband, Stan, were together at a gathering in a friend’s home – one of those where enough people attended that it was difficult to do much but stand in one place. A crowd encircling her stood laughing at the ...

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Gleven Pascual, a student at Erik Ramstad Middle School, Minot, won first place in the first Healthy Decision-Making art contest, according to Strengthening the Heartland, a program created to invest in the wellness and prosperity of rural communities. The contest challenged youth to create ...

Ventriloquist Terry Fator will replace Jay Leno in Norsk Hostfest’s 2023 Great Hall lineup. Norsk Hostfest has announced the remaining acts that round out the seven shows to be performed in the Great Hall of the Vikings Sept. 27-30. Leno canceled his 2023 nationwide comedy tour due to a ...

The Minot State Division of Performing Arts is presenting “An Evening with Eliot Fisk,” on Friday at 7 p.m. in the Northwest Arts Center at Minot State University. Fisk is a world-renowned guitar virtuoso and the last direct pupil of Andres Segovia. He has been performing publicly for ...