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 ...
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 for. Again, I must say how proud I am of the staff for how well they have stuck together through it all. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like old man winter is ready to give up anytime soon. Despite the thoughts of many ready to hit the links, move baseball practices outside, or even the tennis ...
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 1990s. Living in southwest Minot, we had an Irish Setter at the time which seldom left the backyard. Unless I was at home and outside, she generally occupied a fenced kennel in the back yard. An unfamiliar Brittany Spaniel that began roaming our neighborhood made a habit of leaving its droppings ...
