Minot Food Truck Festival is celebrating its 10-year anniversary on Aug. 30 while continuing to raise funds for ND Strong, a nonprofit program dedicated to providing hands-on film education and resources to K-12 and college students in North Dakota at no cost. The festival will be from 11 ...
A partnership between the North and South Dakota state chapters of the National Wild Turkey Federation and Pheasants Forever is helping open more private land to public hunting across the Dakotas. Through the partnership, the South Dakota NWTF State Chapter contributed $5,000 and the North Dakota NWTF State Chapter contributed $8,000 this year to Pheasants Forever’s Public Access to Habitat program, commonly known as PATH. Pheasants Forever debuted its PATH program in South Dakota in 2023 and expanded to include North Dakota in 2025. Other states with PATH programs include Michigan, ...
With fall fast approaching, North Dakota’s hunting seasons have already opened. The 2026 season officially kicked off Aug. 15 with the early Canada goose management season. Depending on the hunting zone, the first closure is Sept. 7 in the Missouri River zone, followed by Sept. 15 in the ...
Dolly Parton, the country music icon who died Tuesday, Aug. 25, performed in Minot in the late 1970s and was made an honorary citizen of Minot. Her honorary citizenship of the Magic City was bestowed on her by John Gefroh, then president of the Minot City Council, with the presentation of a plaque at a press conference held prior to her concert in the Minot Municipal Auditorium. Parton performed before a crowd of 3,380 people on Sunday, July 30, 1978, according to the July 31, 1978, edition of The Minot Daily News. In an interview with The Minot Daily News, the country music ...
Minot Parks will hold its Soggy Doggy Pool Paw-ty on Monday, Sept. 7, from 6-8 p.m. at Roosevelt Park Pool. The event was originally expected to be moved to an earlier date due to the pool’s early seasonal closure. However, Minot Parks has decided to keep the event on Labor Day, allowing local dogs and their owners to enjoy one final splash before the summer comes to an end. Admission is free, and dogs are invited to enjoy the pool alongside their owners. Free-will donations will be accepted at the door for the Souris Valley Animal Shelter For the safety of all participating dogs, ...
Cucumbers are one of my favorite garden vegetables. I love picking them when they are 5-6 inches long and eating them plain or with a basic veggie dip (my favorite is published in the North Dakota State University Extension publication “Field to Fork: Cucumbers!”). But what do you do when ...
