Tom Barry, Minot’s City Manager, give a candid and complete update on the status of Minot’s downtown parking garages at Monday’s City Council meeting. If you’re interested in having the best information on where the project is headed, Mr. Barry’s update is the first-hand source. You can watch it below. Additionally, following Monday’s meeting, Jill
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If you’re looking for quality information, the City Manager’s monthly report to City Council has quickly become an outstanding source. And with the City now live-streaming the meetings via their Youtube Channel, catching up with the information first hand has never been easier. In this month’s report, Mr. Tom Barry (the City Manager), touched on
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How and where does an information-hungry citizen learn about those seeking office in a local election? We think we’ve got the answer. Every week until the June 13 election, City Council candidates will be asked two new questions by our online forum moderators. They answer the question in the allotted space, we publish them word
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How and where does an information-hungry citizen learn about those seeking office in a local election? We think we’ve got the answer. Every week until the June 13 election, City Council candidates will be asked two new questions by our online forum moderators. They answer the question in the allotted space, we publish them word
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One of Minot’s larger employers, IRET, is going through a company transition that will result in significant operating changes. In a news release available on the IRET website, the company announced the retirement and pending retirement of several top executives. In addition to the personnel shakeup, the company also announced that those filling new leadership roles will
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Connect Minot is a monthly meet-up for the entrepreneurially-minded among us. It’s a chance to learn about new businesses setting up in Minot and quiz business owners on the methods, challenges, and rewards that come with running a business. If you’re the type that likes to learn from the experience of others, this is a
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There’s no doubt that the super computers we carry in our pockets are changing the world, but what’s less obvious is the way they’re changing our brains. And when you get right down to it, tech companies are nudging us towards creating habits — err. addictions — that are usually good for them, but maybe
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Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. at the Minot Public Library, you’ll have the chance to get to know a few people in our community better than you might imagine. It’s all a part of and the goal of The Minot Story Hour (@minotstoryhour). Here’s organizer Travis Gerjets talking about the experience in a Minot Minute.
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Dylan Lee with @budgetmusic (Budget Music & Video) talks for a minute about National Record Store Day and the activities that will be taking place on Main Street on Saturday. If you don’t have a minute, plan on live music and lots of Main Street atmosphere.
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Shannon Straight with @sourisfriends (Friends of the Souris River) talks about tomorrow’s Ride the River Event. For more details, check out their Facebook event page.
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An incident involving a dog bite that broke the skin of a woman cleaning frost from her car set the City’s vicious animal laws in motion. Kim Fundingsland with The Minot Daily News has the story.
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The saga of Sheriff Steve Kukowski’s tenure as Sheriff is drawing to a close. Ward County Commissioners voted to accept Mr. Kukowski’s resignation following a two-hour executive session on Tuesday. It all stems from the death of Dustin Irwin, an inmate at the Ward County Jail, who died in October of 2014 while in the
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This June Minot will hold a government transition election that will place six newly elected City Council Alderman plus our current Mayor in charge of the City. Monday was the filing deadline for those seeking one of those six seats; nine people filed to have their names on the ballot. The move will also signal
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In a part of the world where farming is our bedrock industry, it’s important that we’re doing it in a manner that’s both efficient and sustainable. And the anecdotal evidence discovered by one researcher who traveled the world’s farms — including some in North and South Dakota — suggests there are some commonly held myths
Read & Share sourced from: Scientific AmericanThe driverless future will force us to rethink a lot of the ways we operate in and around our community, and Minot will not be immune to the changes. As evidence, London is already trialing a driverless shuttle program. If it’s there now — we’re probably five years behind here. Get the story from the
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Though the threat is relatively low in Minot this spring, the water from our basin continues downstream until it joins the Assiniboine which keeps going on to Winnipeg where it joins with the Red River before flowing into Lake Winnipeg. So, though we appear in the clear, the threat remains for our Manitoba neighbors.
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