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NDLA Conference opens in Minot Oct. 7

The North Dakota Library Association Conference is scheduled for Wednesday-Friday, Oct. 7-9, at The Grand Oasis in Minot. The conference is the premier annual event for North Dakota’s library community, offering professional development, collaborative workshops and networking opportunities for academic, public, school and specialized libraries. The conference’s keynote speakers are Mona Susan Power on Thursday and Faye Seidler on Friday. Power, an author from Minnesota, is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Siedler, a North Dakota native, is an award-winning ...

Murder defendant loses court appeal

Convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, Milo Blaine Whitetail has lost his appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court. Whitetail had been sentenced in February 2023 for the murder of Eric Christopher Patterson at a Minot hotel in 2020. A jury found Whitetail stabbed the 43-year-old ...

NDHP identifies those in Minot crash

The North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified those involved in a motorcycle-vehicle crash occurring on North Broadway in Minot Sunday, Oct. 4. Ashton Hawker, 21, of Florida, died from injuries received in the crash. He was the driver of a motorcycle that struck the rear of a Chevrolet Silverado pickup pulling a boat. Kevin Meland, 52, Burlington, driver of the pickup, and passenger Jacob Meland, 25, Minot, were not injured.

HHS awards $1.23M in ND grants

BISMARCK – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the award of nearly $1.23 million to organizations across North Dakota to support opioid response, youth outreach, economic advancement, aging issues and veterinary research, according to U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-ND. Receiving grants were Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians for EAGLE: Economic Advancement Grants for Local Empowerment, $468,897; Quality Health Associates of North Dakota for the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, Overdose Response, $300,000; University of North Dakota through the ...

Minot Lions celebrates 100 years

From supporting the poor with potatoes to recycling more than a million pairs of donated eyeglasses, the Minot Lions Club has been helping its community and impacting the world for the past 100 years. Nine years after Chicago insurance agent Melvin Jones consolidated a group of business clubs ...

Fun Facts about Minot Lions

– The Minot Lions Club sent a telegram to Charles Lindbergh, welcoming him home after his trans-Atlantic flight, on June 11, 1927. – The club was recognized for sponsoring more new clubs during the year than any other Lions group in the international association in 1929. Clubs were established in Williston, Stanley, Kenmare, Mohall, Bottineau, Rugby, Cando and Leeds. Additional clubs have been sponsored in years since. – In the fall of 1931, the Lions held a golf tournament, boxing program, dinner dance and all-star football game to raise money for the Children's Shoe Fund. – ...