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Editorials

Doggie DNA test surprisingly accurate

Before moving to Minot, my family and I had an English Springer Spaniel, named Sawyer. At the very beginning of COVID-19 in April 2020, he suddenly became very ill. We thought he had gotten into the garbage and eaten something that he should not have eaten. We were wrong. He had a very ...

Let’s hear NDDOT’s intersection options

When the North Dakota Department of Transportation proposed building a $25.8 million roundabout at an intersection south of Minot, many local people turned out for a public input meeting in the Max community hall more than two months ago to air their objections to the proposal. The roundabout ...

Out with old year, looking ahead to new

Minot and others in northwest and north central North Dakota are going into the new year enjoying some of the mildest weather occurring in many years. During the past days we’ve seen children and adults outdoors in the warmer temperatures, riding bikes and walking, dressed in lightweight ...

Christmas: A special time of year

The setting for Christmas in North Dakota is quite different than the setting depicted in the traditional Nativity scene of the first Christmas. That setting is a half-open stable where the Christ Child’s birth took place, with Wise Men from the East arriving on camels and shepherds who ...

Take moment of silence on Pearl Harbor Day

Eighty-two years ago on Dec. 7, 1941, the “Day of Infamy,” as President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it, at 12:25 p.m. (Minot time) the first bombs dropped that would plunge the United States into World War II. On this day a Japanese armada of more than 100 planes and midget submarines ...

Thank you, Ed Zilli, for your service to this country

The Minot community and this country lost one of the Greatest Generation with the passing on Thursday of Ed Zilli. Zilli, of Minot, who celebrated his 100th birthday on Feb. 8, was a decorated World War II veteran and among a diminishing number of World War II veterans at the time of his ...