North Dakota State Fair marketing interns Regan Hartwig and Cavanna Andel have been having fun promoting fair activities while they also gain valuable experience. “We just want to show everybody what the fair has to offer and all the events that you could do once you're here,” said ...
Aspire Credit Union has donated $5,000 to the capital campaign benefiting Project BEE’s Broadway Circle Project. Broadway Circle will include a family shelter, a soup kitchen and food pantry, and affordable housing when it is completed. Project BEE is raising an additional $2 million that ...
U.S. boils, Europe bakes Last week began with reports of continued record temperatures in North America and much of Europe. Great Britain’s mercury topped 109 degrees Fahrenheit, causing hundreds of deaths, melting roads and airstrips, and buckling rail-road tracks. Wildfires torched over a million acres in France, Portugal, Spain, and Italy. Scientists have attributed the heat and fires, as well as last week’s floods in Germany, to global warming. Temperatures over 100 were reported in most of the U.S. and threatened crops and cattle. Climatologists have described a positive ...
In some corners of the personal finance advice world, getting into debt is just about the worst thing you can do. And yes, some forms of debt — particularly those that charge high interest rates — can keep you locked in a cycle of owing money for years. Still, there are times where taking on debt serves a purpose in your overall financial picture. Debt isn’t always bad, though there is always a risk of getting in over your head. It’s simply a tool you can use to afford a very large purchase without draining your savings. “I think it’s so important for people to not be ...
Business has dropped off nearly 60% at Bootleggers Bar & Grill in Noonan without the Canadian traffic that owner Debbie Glasoe used to be able to depend on. Her business is not the only one hurting because of shorter port of entry hours in North Dakota. Sen. John Hoeven, R-ND, has been pressing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials to resume normal operating hours at the northern border’s ports of entry. In the meantime, Hoeven secured a commitment from U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz to deploy a mobile surveillance tower in western North Dakota. His office reported ...
Many Rugby High School grads can relate to the words of Class of 1982 member and Student Body President Troy Bader. “People end up in different places and do a lot of different things, and we never know where life will take us,” Bader said recently, reflecting on his childhood in Rugby. ...
