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Rugby resident to serve on floating hospital

Allison Leer, of Rugby, will be leaving in late April to serve on a Mercy Ship docked in Madagascar. Mercy Ships is a charity organization that provides free medical care to citizens of developing and poor countries. Mercy Ships was founded in 1978 and has served more than 70 countries and ...

Eagle Award winner helps tenants

Mae Blount, assistant property manager for Investors Management and Marketing Inc. (IMM) at North Highland Apartments, earned an Eagle Award in February for demonstrating excellent customer service skills. A tenant nominated Blount for assisting with a stressful, last-minute move after the ...

Deceased woman found in NW Minot

The Minot Police Department is investigating the death of a 66-year-old Minot woman. Officers were dispatched on Sunday about 8:30 a.m., to northwest Minot for reports of a person lying on the ground. Once on the scene, in the area of Kodiak and 36th Avenue Northwest, officers discovered the ...

Study: Working class underrepresented in state legislatures

In North Dakota and all other states, the backgrounds of people serving in state legislatures largely leave out a key demographic, the working class, according to a new national study. Researchers at Duke University and Loyola University Chicago said their study found the share of legislators ...

Comment sought on proposed wetland mitigation

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking public comments until April 8 on a proposed wetland mitigation site south of Minot, in Ward County. The North Dakota Department of Transportation has submitted a plan for the Ward County 1 Wetland Mitigation Bank Site, which consists of 38.1 acres ...

Remembering Bud Grant

Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part story about Mark Hamilton, of Minot, and his friendship with the late legendary Minnesota Vikings coach Bud Grant. Hamilton and his family were friends with Grant for 37 years. Grant was born May 20, 1927, and died March 11, 2023. Bud Grant was a ...