I was reminded recently what a tremendous impact the zoo has on its community and the lives that have been affected over the history of the zoo. After news about the death of Lizzy, our female siamang gibbon, the zoo received an email from a past employee that had cared for Lizzy when she first ...

Leah Neset and Artem Markelov started ice skating before most children start T-ball, and by the time they were teenagers, they knew figure skating would be their careers. Neset was born and raised in Minot. She attended Our Redeemer’s Christian School and was coached in figure skating by ...

March has definitely come in like a lion and I don’t mean the weather. These first couple of weeks in March have been some of the most challenging the staff has experienced in a long time. There has been so much that we at least were expecting, but then faced more unexpected than we bargained ...

The Mouse River Players’ lobby has been under construction for quite some time, and MRP volunteer Lin Knickerbocker said the board is hoping it will be finished by the end of the 2024 season. Construction on the building began in 2022, with the facade redone with the help of city funding ...

I’ve long felt our children got off to a great start thanks to their elementary education. In fact, the experience of our two who attended Minot Public Schools was superb — although my own experience with the entity could have been a smidge better based on what happened at Jim Hill in the ...