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Fort Stevenson holds Leprechaun’s Gold Geocache

GARRISON – Fort Stevenson State Park will host a St. Patrick’s Day geocaching event featuring a search for Leprechaun’s Gold, according to North Dakota Parks & Recreation. Participants will venture off the trails to engage in a multi-cache experience, solving puzzle caches to uncover the ultimate treasure: the Leprechaun’s Pot of Gold. The Pot of Gold, a mystery geocache hidden within the park, includes six First-to-Find prizes. To ensure fairness, families are asked to limit themselves to one prize. Successfully solving the puzzle caches is required to access the final cache. ...

Young cast to present Mouse River Players play

Second graders to young adults are taking part in the Mouse River Players’ production of “Aesop’s, Oh So Slightly, Updated Fables.” The play will be performed Friday and Saturday, March 14-15, starting at 7:30 each evening at the Mouse River Players’ Arlene Theatre in Minot. A ...

Minot North presents first performance in new theater

The new Minot North High School Theater hosted its first performance when “The Crucible” was presented there Feb. 27 - March 1. The new theater, with seating for 636 people, allows students to explore their interest in the theater arts. “It overall balances out the things from the ...

Curiosity leads Minot native to write true crime novels

The human psyche has long been a source of curiosity for C.J. Wynn. Wynn, then Carla Rodacker, graduated from Minot High School in 1994 and from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks in 1998, going on to receive a master’s degree in psychology from Capella University in Minneapolis. ...

Retirement’s Comic Relief: Take ‘A Train’ to Leavenworth …second in trilogy

The Empire Builder continued west over eastern Montana blanketed with golden fields and the occasional cattle operation. Before arriving in Havre, another announcement from the engineer informed that a freight train near Cut Bank had derailed, making tracks there impassable. We would stop at the Shelby depot to ensure passengers could get around the mess via a three-hour bus ride to Whitefish, MT. Chaos was plentiful soon after train wheels stopped turning. Passengers spilled out onto the platform, then were told to return to the train until luggage was off-loaded and buses ...

Frozen Fingers Festival helps youth attend music camp

Part of the proceeds raised during the upcoming 36th annual Frozen Fingers Festival will help youth planning to attend the International Music Camp, north of Dunseith. The Western North Dakota Bluegrass and Oldtime Music Association Of North Dakota are presenting the festival April 4-5 at ...