The Minot Area Chamber of Commerce hosted it’s annual Showcase of Business last night. Area businesses use the event to show some pride in themselves and the Minot community and have a little fun at the same time. This year’s event had a fairytale theme which is evident in KX’s news coverage.
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When you shop in small, local businesses, the dollars you spend stay in your community; they get circulated again. That’s the message of Glen Muske writing for the NDSU Extension Service about a shop local event on Saturday, November 26. To participate, just visit a local business. Mr. Muske’s article follows below. What event will
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Fargo’s Plains Art Museum will get a boost to its work in engaging the public. The Bush Foundation has granted the museum $500,000 as part of their Community Innovation program. The program is designed to invest in the region’s most “outstanding problem-solving organizations.”
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In Canada, there is now a national study that backs what the anecdotal evidence has been suggesting for years — opioid addiction and abuse are on the rise. Alexandra Paul with the Winnipeg Free Press digs into the story to deliver a Manitoba perspective. It is a problem that does not respect international borders, here
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Minot’s 8th Annual Independent Living Fair kicked off Wednesday. The event hosts more than 40 booths that provide information from everything from home living to veteran services. KMOT News has more on the story.
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The Western Area Water supply was a grand plan designed to bring Missouri River water to a huge portion of Northwest North Dakota. Financed by the legislature and industrial water sales, the project hasn’t been without controversy, but hook ups are continuing. This legislative session, WAWS will be seeking an additional 29 million to keep
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This is only news in Minot because of the remarkable manner in which the City of Grand Forks handled a difficult situation. It’s a great example of what we should be looking for in municipal government.
Read & Share sourced from: Grand Forks HeraldThe Minot Police Department is asking for help locating a runaway girl. Sixteen-year-old Shai Lyn Parizek was last seen November 7th near the Burdick Job Corp Center. Shai is approximately 5’2″ tall and weighs roughly 115 lbs. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call the Minot PD at (701) 852-0111.
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The unseasonably warm weather this fall has us all grateful and hoping not to jinx it, but winter will come. It’s easy to forget that take place next spring, are likely being set-up right now. 20 years ago, a November blizzard heralded a tough winter that led to an epic flood season in the Red
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#NoDAPL protestors took their act to Mandan yesterday where they blocked the BNSF railroad tracks for approximately three hours. Rob Port with Say Anything Blog has pictures and comments from the Morton County Sheriff’s Department.
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The son of 1960’s political icon Bobby Kennedy was at the Standing Rock Protest Camps Tuesday to stand in solidarity with protestors fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an environmental law attorney and heads the international Water Alliance.
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For the fourth year in a row, Minot High Cheerleaders are the top squad in the state. KMOT News has the rest of the story.
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Is there a way to make democracy more democratic? As a country, as a culture, we’ve been locked in a centuries-old mentality when it comes to voting — that’s it’s one or the other. But there are other methods, and the entire state of Maine will be experimenting with one of those other methods at
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If you’ve ever been to downtown Minneapolis, you probably noticed all the bridges between buildings. Commonly referenced as the ‘skyway’, the corridor among buildings allows winter walkers to stay warm and sheltered from the elements. But critics claim there are also unintended consequences for the street below — most notably, a lack of vibrancy, people,
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MSU computer science students rose to the top at a recent regional competition that required practical problem solving and programming schools. MSU has been attending the competition for eight years, this was the first year they earned top prize.
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The City of Winnipeg is going through the process of reviewing its form of government and the manner in which it wants its elected officials to operate. They’ve identified problems, they are setting goals, and they’re going to take the next four months to work through ideas to see if they deliver outcomes. It’s a
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