Watch & Listen – Minot State Choir making friends and music in Skein
Minot State Choir is in Minot’s sister city Skein, Norway this week as a part of a cultural exchange. Watch and listen to a few of their performances below.
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Cities can’t afford their roads anymore
It’s fair to say we’re now fully into spring, but we still see — and feel — the consequences of winter when we travel down our roads. Pot holes are bumpy roads are easy targets for ever-critical citizens; they’re not wrong to notice them — the potholes are real. But what’s the root cause of
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Another week, another voter-rejected school bond proposal
Another Williston-area school district was asking for bond authority to build new schools. The voters said no. This theme has been on replay across Western North Dakota in recent months. It matters in Minot because we have our own school capacity problem. But Minot School officials remain mum on what the plan or approach is
Read & Share sourced from: Williston HeraldBismarck’s Main Avenue to undergo permanent road diet
Bismarck’s Main Avenue will be transitioned down from 4-lanes to 3-lanes. It’s a project under the emerging practice in engineering known as ‘road diets’. It’s about making roads as friendly to bikes and pedestrians as they are to cars and trucks; there’s also less to maintain. Cheryl McCormack with the Bismarck Tribune has the full
Read & Share sourced from: Bismarck TribuneSite picked for proposed performing arts venue in downtown Fargo
Fargo is moving forward with a big investment in the arts. In order to make it happen, it’s out with the old and in with the new. The site selected is currently home to the City’s Civic Center. To make way for the 2,500 seat performing arts center, the existing building will be demolished. Check
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‘It has to be dealt with’: what is the future for midwest towns affected by flood
Up and down the the rivers of the Midwest, towns are reeling. Some are just reemerging after being underwater for weeks. And while politicians continue to debate the credibility of climate change science, the attitudes of some people on the ground and in the water are starting to sway. Check out the article linked below
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Rehearsals are underway for one of North Dakota’s great traditions of summer — the Medora Musical. Check out the article from KX News and Tim Olson that includes a video interview with cast members and teases some of the changes in this years show.
Read & Share sourced from: KX NewsRural rejuvenation is a prize worth fighting for
The out-migration from rural areas is not a problem unique to North Dakota. All over the world, and for sure in Ireland, they’re facing the problem head on. And from encouraging investment to fighting floods, the challenges — and in some cases the solutions — are similar. Check out this perspective piece to get a
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What could become of our idle and vacant farm yards?
On your drives through the North Dakota countryside, have you noticed the many vacant and idle farmsteads? They are relics of a past age when the prairie was alive with people and activity. But the nature of farming changed, the farms followed suit, and the cascade effect of outward migration and rural decline was on.
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#GoodTalk Minot: a fun conversation about an uncomfortable topic — funerals
Sooner or later, we’re all going to have to deal with it. Or, more typically, those we leave behind are going to have to deal with it. Have you thought about what your funeral would be like or how you’d like it? Funerals are changing. We shouldn’t be surprised; our culture is changing, too. On
Read & ShareAre better cities the key to curing America’s obesity epidemic?
Are you trying to lose a few pounds before summer? Is your self-discipline toward diet and exercise a little lacking? Maybe the problem isn’t you, maybe it’s the place you live. What if the place you lived invited you to live a life that made walking natural, made hidden exercise a part of your daily
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Grand Forks plans to have bike share system soon
Minot’s bike and pedestrian infrastructure is a couple years from being a shining example, but the resources that we’re building as a part of flood protection are only noticed if people get out and use them. In Grand Forks, they’re taking the step to provide more localized transportation as well as a vehicle to excercise
Read & Share sourced from: Grand Forks HeraldIn Brandon, downtown revitalization a concern
In a world where the information we’re exposed to is protected by our bubble, it’s easy to get the idea that we’re the only place with challenges and that all our challenge are unique. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Check out this post from the Brandon Sun. On any given Tuesday, you could
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The story of creating North Dakota’s first National Park
Prairie Public’s Dakota Datebook has the story on the creation of North Dakota’s first national park. And here’s a hint — it’s not the one you think it is. Follow the link at the bottom for the full story, but here’s a teaser. “Conservation and rural life policies are really two sides to the same
Read & Share sourced from: Prairie Public NewsFrom natural disaster to piece of art
For one Red River Valley artist, the remnants of floodwaters are scattered across the shores of opportunity. Weathered, fallen, and set afloat, each flood season deposits a new supply driftwood grist for the imagination mill. Tyler Ziegler with Inforum has the story on making the most of what nature leaves behind.
Read & Share sourced from: InForumAs Wisconsin’s hemp industry blooms, will marijuana be next?
As North Dakota farmer’s get beat up by the near-term fallout of our international trade negotiations, is there more we can be doing to help them out? What about deregulating a long vilified crop? The North Dakota legislature has taken positive steps toward opening the door to hemp in recent years; that’s a good thing.
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