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Missionary doctor to speak at Minot Baptist Church

Dr. Patricia Catrow, a missionary doctor, will speak at Minot Baptist Church Sunday, June 21. Catrow has been involved with medical missions even before she separated from the Air Force. She was last assigned to Minot Air Force Base. Catrow has visited several countries and recently returned from Albania, where she served alongside other doctors and evangelists. The team is able to help in many of the medical fields as well as sharing the message of Christ. This Sunday Catrow will discuss several countries she has visited and helped as well as those she hopes to visit. Catrow will ...

MSU seeks program seed money from MAGIC Fund

A $500,000 MAGIC Fund investment to help launch a new innovation engineering program at Minot State University received the support of the fund’s screening committee Thursday, June 18. The committee voted to recommend the Minot City Council approve a forgivable loan for equipment and ...

Planning commission rejects feedlot’s permit request

The Ward County Planning Commission voted Tuesday, June 18, to recommend the county commission deny a permit for a feedlot in Surrey Township that had been the subject of a law enforcement investigation. State prosecutors have filed charges in North Central District Court against the feedlot operator for allegedly improperly disposing of hundreds of dead cattle. Nathan Smith, Sawyer, has been charged with 479 infractions of improper disposal of animal carcass but has previously informed The Minot Daily News that the deceased cattle were properly disposed of and that he intends to ...

ND oil production dips slightly in April

BISMARCK – Oil production in North Dakota dropped slightly in April when the state produced 34,114,664 barrels of oil or 1.137 million barrels of oil per day. In March, the state produced 35,422,376 barrels of oil or 1.142 million barrels of oil per day. Nathan Anderson, director of the ...

Former 5th Fighter pilots gather at air museum

Garrison Dam spillway flow test scheduled for late June

RIVERDALE — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced it will conduct a planned flow test of the Garrison Dam spillway on or around June 24 as part of ongoing investigations related to the spillway modification project. The test is expected to involve opening about 23 of the dam’s 28 spillway gates for a total duration of about two hours. The purpose of the test is to verify the operability of the spillway structure and evaluate the performance of the spillway subdrain system. This controlled release is strictly for testing and evaluation purposes and is not related to flood ...