It’s a property that’s generated a large amount of conversation over the past years, but the future of Home Sweet Home is now in new hands. Last night, Minot’s City Council voted to dispose of the home on 4th Ave NW to Amy and Jacob Jenkins, local citizens with a history of refurbishing old homes.
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The City of Minot’s Assistant City Attorney and Legislative Liasion, Shane Goettle, gave the City Council an update at Monday evening’s regular City Council meeting. Flood protection funding was the area of focus, and the message was as follows: Minot’s flood protection advocacy team has been working since the summer to tell our story, and
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Who says government can’t have a little fun? The North Dakota DOT has made an annual tradition of letting citizens around the state come up with creative names for the DOT snow plows that patrol our regional roads and highways. It’s both fun, and serves a secondary purpose of raising public awareness around the work
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The project is supported with a $150 million from the ND Industrial Commission; its goal is to bring natural gas from the West to the East. The problem, no contractors have submitted bids to build it. The deadline has now been extended twice. The situation will be a likely topic for an Industrial Commission meeting
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The Ward County Commission will meet Tuesday, December 20th, 2022 at the Ward County Administration Building to consider the agenda below.
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Minot City Council will meet Monday, December 19, at 5:30 pm to consider the agenda attached below. Items of note include the disposition of Home Sweet Home, hiring EAPC Architects to provide a facility study for the police department reuse of the current City Hall, a higher-than-estimated bid to get the Career & Technical Education
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American politics has gotten nasty the past few years. You’ve likely seen examples on social media – people yelling at meetings, making threats, even violence. For a time, local government was a last bastion of civility, but it seems that cultural barrier is also erroding. It’s gotten to the point where elected leaders and candidates
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North Dakota has 16,000 listed job openings, but Job Service North Dakota estimates closer to 40,000 job vacancies, and no industry is spared. The upcoming legislative session will see lawmakers and Governor Burgum address issues where the state can make an impact; one area already identified is support for childcare. But all agree, the challenge
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The statistics are depressing. A lot of people needlessly die on North Dakota roads every year, and alcohol is always a big contributor. Vision Zero is the state initiative to bring that number down from a lot to none at all. No deaths are acceptable. No excuses are acceptable. To raise awareness and save lives
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Minot State University’s Hartnett Hall is undergoing a once-every-fifty-years renovation. Made possible by a legislative appropriation in the 2021 session, the project will modernize the building that’s home to several liberal arts programs including English, Humanities, Theater, Arts, and Communications. Mike Linnell with Minot State has the full story.
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It’s started. The Broadway Circle project has been in the works for many years. The concept of a family homeless shelter was part of Minot’s National Disaster Resilience application going back to 2014, but getting it from idea to underway has been a journey. Jill Shramm with The Minot Daily News has the update on
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Do cows need a methane vaccine? Probably not. Do ranchers need a methane vaccine for cows? Maybe yes. Cows eat grass and the microbes in their stomachs turn a bunch of that biomatter into methane. It’s a problem because methane is bad for the environment, and there are a lot of cows on the prairie
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It’s that time of year. The property tax notices have gone out and they’ll be landing in your mailbox soon. Take a deep breath and count to ten before you open them. Minot property owners are seeing a substantial increase largely due to the voter-approved school bond issue that’s paying for our second high school
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It’s known as the ‘biodiversity hypothesis’. The thought is that environments with lots of living things positively impact our natural immunity. In Finland, researchers took it to the next stage, experiment and testing — they redeveloped daycare playgrounds to include natural green space. Then they sent the kids out to play and tested their markers
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What’s better than buying a real Christmas tree? How about renting one? You get all of the fragrance, none of the needles. It’s an idea that forces us to ask, why did this take so long to think of? Get the full story on reusing Christmas trees from NPR.
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How do you get creative, talented kids involved in their community? Give them a canvas, some paint, and little recognition. In Wildrose, that canvas just happened to be a bus. Get the full story on the little things that make people proud from the Williston Herald.
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