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PrairieFare: When lights go out, keep food safe during power outages

Home and Garden

I must have unplugged the vacuum, I thought to myself when it suddenly stopped working. I walked over to check. The vacuum was still connected. Maybe I blew a fuse. I flipped on a light switch to go to the basement. The lights didn’t work, either. We were in the middle of our first winter storm of the year. Since my cell phone worked, I learned our home was among about 4,500 homes without power. I really didn’t feel like vacuuming, anyway. I also wasn’t looking forward to resetting all the digital clocks in our home. I hoped the power outage would be brief because I had ...

Retirement's Comic Relief: Tis season to make a difference

Arts and Entertainment

A Christmas column shared three years ago spoke of Phillis Wheatly, an American poet and former slave in the late 1700s. Another more recent column focused on Anne Sullivan, teacher to Helen Keller. Both Wheatly and Sullivan provided different elements that cascaded forward to benefit many others years or centuries later. Have we each done enough to make a positive difference for those we might never know? During a recent call with a former classmate, I learned he was preparing to accompany his 45-year-old son, Ryan, to Arizona, where the son would donate blood to help someone battling ...

ND sailor’s path takes her from Stanley to helicopter squadron

Local News

SAN DIEGO – Lt. Grace Hove, a native of Stanley, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 21 (HSC-21) at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California. Hove graduated from Powers Lake High School in 2017 and the U.S. Naval Academy in 2021 with a bachelor’s ...

Eighty-four years ago: News of attack on Pearl Harbor reaches Minot

Local News

The headline of the Monday, Dec. 8, 1941, edition of The Minot Daily News, the day following the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, announced Congress had promptly declared war on Japan. Eighty-four years ago on Sunday, Dec. 7, the Imperial Japanese Navy led a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy ...

River otter trapping season closed

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BISMARCK – North Dakota’s river otter trapping season is closed. The statewide season’s predetermined harvest limit of 30 has been reached, according to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Only North Dakota residents were eligible to participate, with a season limit of one otter per trapper.