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A gift to Minot: celebrating heritage, community, tradition

This weekend the Scandinavian Heritage Association is hosting its annual Midsummer Festival at the Shirley Bicentennial Park, also known as the Scandinavian Heritage Park, from Friday, June 19, through Saturday, June 20. Traditionally, the Midsummer Festival is held around the time of the summer solstice and celebrates the ushering in of new light after a long, dark winter. This week, secretary of the Scandinavian Heritage Association (SHA), Kae Watson, and the treasurer of SHA, Sue Weston, have been working double time to make sure all their ducks are in a row for the jam-packed ...

Council supports local groups’ grant requests

A reapplication gave the Minot Housing Authority another opportunity to request a forgivable loan from the City of Minot’s Facade Improvement Program, and this one was successful. The Minot City Council approved the housing authority’s facade project 4-3. The first try last December failed on 3-3 vote and a second look also lacked the tie-breaking vote needed for reconsideration. Mike Hayes, who had been absent at the December meetings, voted with Mayor Mark Jantzer, Lisa Olson and Paul Pitner to approve the request on Monday, June 15. Because of its status as a quasi-government ...

Library merger talks require more time

A committee investigating a merger of the Minot and Ward County public libraries has placed its business on hold temporarily. The committee decided Tuesday, June 15, to seek more guidance from its governing boards after determining it won’t have recommendations developed to get a measure on ...

Trinity hosts first annual car show

Trinity Health held its Park for the Park event with classic cars, Ward County and Trinity emergency vehicles, food trucks and activities for the children Wednesday, June 17, in the hospital parking lot. One goal of the community event was to encourage donations for a park being planned on ...

Research Center precipitation

On Wednesday, June 17, at 8 a.m., 0.14-inch of moisture was recorded at the North Central Research Extension Center, south of Minot, in the past 24-hour period.

DAV donates to Minot Quilts of Valor