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Mobile food bank regularly assists local rural areas

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Great Plains Food Bank regularly hauls a mobile food pantry around the state to serve rural communities with limited access to food assistance. Jared Slinde, communications manager for Great Plains Food Bank in Fargo, said this program delivers around 1 million pounds of food to hungry ...

Minot AFB bombers provide strategic deterrence in Pacific

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ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam – B-52 Stratofortress bombers assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing from Minot Air Force Base landed at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, at the end of January as part of a Bomber Task Force to support strategic deterrence missions aimed at reinforcing the rules-based ...

Retired military pilot to seek District 40 Senate seat

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Jose Castaneda of Minot has announces his candidacy for the District 40 seat in the North Dakota Senate being vacated by retiring, longtime Minot-area lawmaker Karen Krebsbach. Castaneda was born in Mexico City, and his family legally immigrated to the United States in 1985. In 1992 he ...

Committee hears challenges to growing Minot’s childcare

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Members of Minot’s Childcare Committee will be looking at recommendations to send to the Minot City Council when they meet again in mid-March. The committee began studying solutions to the childcare shortage last March, hearing from providers, parents, the coordinator of West Fargo ...

Public meetings scheduled on possible school closures

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The Minot Public School Board has scheduled public input meetings next week on the proposed closure of two Minot elementary schools to address a districtwide budget deficit. The special board meetings are scheduled for Monday, Feb. 12, at 6:30 p.m. at McKinley Elementary and Tuesday, Feb. ...

State Fair unveils final two Showpass acts

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The North Dakota State Fair has announced country music superstar Thomas Rhett and Sawyer Brown, a band with more than 4,500 shows and counting, will fill out the Grandstand Showpass lineup for the 2024 Fair. Rhett will take the stage on Friday, July 26. With 21 number one singles, 15 ...