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DesLauriers, Mihalick top District 3 Republican House race

Local Elections

District 3 Republicans chose two new candidates over an endorsed incumbent and his running mate to advance in the race for the North Dakota House of Representatives in the Tuesday, June 9, primary. Unofficial results showed Blaine DesLauriers garnering 706 votes and Tim Mihalick with 686 votes, which would move them on to represent the party in the general election in November. Incumbent Jeff Hoverson was only 23 votes behind Mihalick with 663, and Crystal Hendrickson received 622 votes. District 3 includes a section of east Minot, Surrey and the surrounding rural area. ...

Minot voters retain mayor, select Podrygula, MacMartin and Locken for council

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Minot Mayor Mark Jantzer held onto his position by a significant margin, while voters elected Stephan Podrygula, John MacMartin and Eric Locken to the council in the Minot city election Tuesday, June 9. Jantzer defeated challenger Josiah Roise with 84% of the vote. The final, unofficial tally was 4,890-887. The mayor’s race drew 5,826 votes, compared to 4,551 in a three-way race won by Tom Ross in 2022. Ross resigned April 1, 2025, and Jantzer was elected to the position last August. “I'm grateful for the results and being kept on the job as mayor. I think my message was that ...

Surrey school bond narrowly misses passage

Local Elections

SURREY – Voters in the Surrey Public School District narrowly defeated a $5.8 million bond issue measure Tuesday, June 9, that would have added classrooms to replace portables and make other repairs. The measure required 60% for passage. It achieved 58.65%, according to unofficial results. The vote was 217-153. According to information provided by the school to its patrons, the district had been working with architects and engineers over the past year to study facility challenges. Among them are: – Portable classrooms installed in 2012 were intended to be temporary and are ...

Xcel Energy donates to Junior Achievement

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The Minot Area Chamber EDC (MACEDC) has announced Junior Achievement of Minot has received a $3,000 grant from Xcel Energy, continuing a longstanding partnership that has helped bring financial literacy, entrepreneurship and career-readiness education to thousands of local students. The relationship between Xcel Energy and Junior Achievement in Minot dates back nearly three decades. In 1997, Xcel Energy approached what was then the Minot Area Chamber of Commerce with the idea of bringing Junior Achievement to the community. What began as a pilot program serving 25 classrooms has grown ...

New Town college sets retention, persistence records

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NEW TOWN — Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (NHSC) has announced record-setting student retention and persistence rates, crediting the effectiveness of the college’s ongoing efforts to support student success and degree completion. According to NHSC’s latest student success data, the college’s fall 2024 to fall 2025 retention rate, which measures the percentage of students who return to NHSC the following fall, reached 69.6%, the highest level recorded since tracking began in 2011. This represents a dramatic increase from the college’s 35.7% retention rate in 2011 and reflects a ...

Minot library report shows busy year in 2025

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More than 24,000 people attended a program or outreach event at Minot Public Library in 2025, according to the library’s 2025 annual report, released to the public and presented to the Minot City Council June 1. The library held 591 programs and had attendance at those programs totaling ...