Minot native and world-renowned Egyptologist Mark Lehner will be featured speaker at Minot State University’s “Discoveries Set in Stone,” a three-day archaeology conference May 1-3. The conference is presented by the MSU Geology Club A.U.G.I.T.E. (Association of Undergraduate ...
Minot Parks will hold the Cardboard Bobsled Race on Friday, April 12, starting at 6 p.m. at the Maysa Arena’s Pepsi Rink. Community youth are being invited to showcase their creativity and racing skills with homemade cardboard bobsleds. There will be prizes and the opportunity to earn the title of the fastest bobsled in the West. Categories will include: - 4th to 7th graders - 8th to 12th graders Each team will consist of a pilot and two pushers. An award will be presented for the best design and theme. All participants must wear clean athletic shoes and helmets while on ...
One of the new arrivals at the Pioneer Village, run by the Ward County Historical Society, located between Minot and Burlington along Highway 2 & 52, is a 1909 wooden (oak) barber chair. Made at the Theo A. Kochs factory in Chicago, Illinois, it was one of nine models built. This particular ...
Minot High School and Minot North are competing in the state one-act play competition on Monday, April 8, and Tuesday, April 9. Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Minot High School is a sneak peek of two plays. Minot High School is presenting a parody of old science fiction monster movies with the ...
Minot State’s Division of Science will host a partial solar eclipse viewing party, weather permitting, in front of Swain Hall starting around 1 p.m. on Monday, April 8. Professors Nigel George (physics and astronomy) and Kati Kilroy (geosciences) will be passing out solar glasses and showing students and the public how to use different items, including pinhole models, to view the eclipse. The program will run until 3 p.m. when the partial eclipse ends.
GARRISON – Fort Stevenson State Park will be holding sugar maple tree tapping events on April 13. Members of the Fort Stevenson State Park team will be demonstrating how to properly tap sugar maple trees to collect sap for making maple syrup. Visitors will also be given the history behind maple syrup and the equipment that is needed to make it. The tree tapping demonstrations will take place at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. From 11 a.m.-3 p.m., visitors will also have the opportunity to take a horse-drawn wagon ride. Activities for children and other maple syrup-related programs will ...
