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WILLISTON, N.D. - Williston Downtowners Association will be hosting the Farmers Market again this year running every Saturday, rain or shine, beginning June 20th through October 17th. The Farmers Market will be from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm or until goods are sold out in the Broadway & 1st Avenue West Parking Lot (Upper Missouri District Health Unit Lot). “We are excited to have returning vendors and already have new vendors signing up!” said Executive Director, Karissa Kjos. The Downtowners will be having a vendor meeting in its office at 8 Eas...
FARGO, ND — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Val Dolcini today announced that a major national conservation program that restores high-priority wildlife habitat has now surpassed 1 million acres with the recent enrollment of land in La Moure County, North Dakota. The initiative, known as State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement (SAFE), is a part of the USDA Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a federally-funded voluntary program that contracts with agricultural producers so that e...
Williston area residents convinced Congress to create a nation’s park nearly 50 years ago. And to celebrate that accomplishment and the MonDak region’s inspiration for “America’s Best Idea,” its national parks, the National Park Service seeks community input. To share your thoughts and ideas for how the National Park Service could celebrate Fort Union Trading Post’s 50th anniversary in 2016, join the park’s staff for a public meeting at the Williston Public Library. The meeting will be Wednesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. “The park exists because...
Sisters Four, from the Williston area, entertained the crowd at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Center last Sunday with a mixture of religious and secular songs. The next concert is scheduled for June 28 with Clearwater Hot Club Jazz performing. The Confluence Center provides a perfect venue for music, with excellent acoustics indoors, and the dramatic confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers outdoors....
Year two of a four-year walleye tagging study on the Missouri River and Lake Oahe is complete, and returns are providing biologists with valuable information. Paul Bailey, North Dakota Game and Fish Department south central district fisheries supervisor, said nearly 17,000 fish were tagged in 2013 and 2014, the first two years of the study, and more than 3,000 tag numbers were turned in by anglers. “The study is designed to assess walleye movements, mortality and what proportion of the walleye population is harvested annually by anglers,” Bai...
Are your Social Media skills lacking? Missouri River Country is offering a free training session on April 21st at 1:00pm at the Great Northern Development Conference room, located at 233 Cascade St. in Wolf Point. Caitlin Hassler from the Montana Office of Tourism in Helena will be putting on a training session for anyone that is interested on learning about Social Media. With the advancing of technology comes more Social Media options. Sites including Face Book, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr to name a few are all ways to advertise...
North Dakota’s paddlefish snagging season opens May 1, and the season is scheduled to continue through the end of May. However, depending on the overall harvest, an early in-season closure may occur with a 24-hour notice issued by the state Game and Fish Department. Paddlefish tags are available over-the-counter-only in Bismarck at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s main office; in Williston at the Williams County auditor’s office, Scenic Sports and Wal-Mart; and in Dickinson at Runnings Farm and Fleet. Snaggers should be aware that ma...
BILLINGS — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has no plans to change its paddlefish season as a result of January’s oil spill in the Yellowstone River west of Glendive. On Jan. 17, 2015, a 12-inch-diameter Bridger Pipeline broke beneath the Yellowstone River six miles upstream from Glendive, dumping some 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the water. Efforts to clean up the spill and account for damage from the oil were thwarted until last week because ice covered the river. FWP has issued a fish-consumption advisory for any fish caught below the spi...
Camp Director Arch Ellwein announces a special guest instructor for the 20th Footlights and Greasepaint Youth Theatre Retreat July 6-11, 2015 in Sidney. Storyteller Mary Jane Bradbury of Helena, Montana will share her 25 years of experience as a speaker, educator and actor. Ms. Bradbury recently relocated to Montana from Denver, Colorado where she was interpretive advisor to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. She has been a commercial and industrial film actor and corporate spokesperson an...
BOZEMAN - A group of scholars and agricultural specialists who are considered some of the world’s top experts on food production, food safety and solving hunger across the globe will gather in Bozeman April 9 and 10 when the United States Agency for International Development‘s (USAID) Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) meets at Montana State University. MSU President Waded Cruzado, a member of the board appointed by President Barack Obama, will host the meeting of fellow board members. This is only the second tim...
Lower Yellowstone Rural Electric Cooperative (LYREC) announces the retirement of Don Prevost. Don began his career at Lower Yellowstone as the office manager in 1970. After 27 years of fulfilling his role as office manager, Don was promoted to general manager/CEO in 1997. Throughout Don's years with LYREC, he has donated time to numerous cooperative affiliates such as the Montana Electric Cooperatives' Association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, and Basin Electric Power...
Camp Mak-A-Dream, located in Gold Creek Montana, will be recognized for its 20th Anniversary in 2015, by the Montana Legislature on March 6, 2015 in the House Chambers with a Joint Proclamation of the Montana Legislature. A JOINT PROCLAMATION OF THE MONTANA LEGISLATURE WHEREAS, Since opening its doors in Gold Creek, Montana in 1995, Camp Mak-A-Dream has provided a “Montana Experience” to children and adults diagnosed with cancer and their families; and WHEREAS, Camp Mak-A-Dream has strong partnerships with hospitals across the Country inc...
In 2011 the Missouri River recorded the highest flows on record since construction of the dams authorized by the Pick Sloan Plan. The subsequent flooding from Montana to Missouri has and will have significant impacts on the river system, its channel and surrounding ag and riparian forest lands. On Friday, March 6, at noon Dr. Mark Dixon, an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, will be discussing his research into the flood's impacts on the cottonwood...
Cheetahs, and leopards and lions! Oh my! It may be an unusual topic, but it's one not to be missed in this, the second presentation in the USDA-Agricultural Research Service's Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory (NPARL) 2015 BrownBagger series. This special "scientific safari" begins at noon on Friday, Feb. 27 and takes us to the southern tip of Africa with NPARL Entomologist/Ecologist Dave Branson, who recently completed a month-long trip there. The event is open to the public....
The MonDak Energy Alliance held their February meeting Thursday, February 12, 2015 at the Williston Grand Hotel and Conference Center. The overall topic of the evening was current and future energy development. The meeting was called to order by Williston Mayor Howard Klug who is a co-chair of the board followed by Sidney Mayor Rick Norby, also a co-chair of the board, who gave an update on the MonDak Energy Alliance. Recognition Awards were presented to four founding members: Bret Smelser,...
In 2014 a New York Times investigation reported that 18.4 million gallons of oil and chemical substances had leaked into the North Dakotn air, water and soil between 2006 and October 2014. Since this investigation, two more major occurrences have taken place in the area, leaving some residents wondering how safe the air is they're breathing. More than 4 million gallons of a mixture of fresh water, brine and oil have been pumped from the area affected by the largest saltwater spill of North...
MEDORA - The Chateau de Mores State Historic Site will host the program “Fashioning the West: Clothing and Culture in the Victorian and Edwardian Eras” with Anne Foster at 4 p.m. on Saturday, February 14, 2015, at the Chateau de Mores Interpretive Center. There will be a $20 admission fee. How can a hoopskirt be liberating, a corset comfortable, and just how do you sit down in a bustle? Foster answers these questions and more in this presentation combining historical photographs and reproduction clothing. More than simply whims of fashion, clo...
For the first time ever, Roosevelt Medical Center’s Roosevelt Memorial Healthcare Foundation, is hosting a fundraiser that gives participants a chance at guessing when the Missouri River will break up on a designated area of the river near Culbertson. The first annual Ice-Breaker Fundraiser will kick off Feb.1 at 12:01 a.m. and guesses will be accepted until March 31 at 11:59 p.m. Tickets are $5 or three tickets for $10. The person who guesses the correct date and time that the river begins to flow three miles south of Culbertson, near the H...
Richland County Conservation District has been recognizing individuals who co-operate with the district to implement conservation practices on the land for many years. In 1977 Jean Bidegaray received the distinction of conservation district co-operator of the year. Building on the conservation practices that their father began, Remi and Claude Bidegaray have been named Richland County Conservation District Co-operators of the Year for 2014. Remi and Claude operate their diversified farm and ranch entity under Bidegaray Brothers, together they a...
Richland County Conservation District has been recognizing individuals who co-operate with the district to implement conservation practices on the land for many years. In 1977 Jean Bidegaray received the distinction of conservation district co-operator of the year. Building on the conservation practices that their father began, Remi and Claude Bidegaray have been named Richland County Conservation District Co-operators of the Year for 2014. Remi and Claude operate their diversified farm and ranc...
FORT BUFORD--The Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center will be hosting several events in January. All of the events are free and open to the public. January 16-17, 2015 Confluence Quilters, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Join the Confluence Quilters for their monthly meeting at the Confluence where they will be quilting the Disappearing Nine Patch. It is recommended that quilters bring two Charm packs or have their fabric pre-cut into 5 inch squares before coming for class on Saturday. All experience levels invited and instruction provided....
North Dakota waterfowl hunters are reminded the statewide duck and white-fronted goose seasons closed Dec. 7. However, duck hunting in the high plains unit reopened Dec. 13 and continues through Jan. 4, 2015. In addition, the season for Canada geese closes Dec. 25, except for the Missouri River Zone, which closes Jan. 2, 2015. Light goose hunting closes statewide Jan. 4, 2015. Archery deer, fall turkey, sharp-tailed and ruffed grouse, partridge, pheasant and tree squirrel hunting seasons continue through Jan. 4, 2015....
North Dakota waterfowl hunters are reminded the statewide duck and white-fronted goose seasons closed Dec. 7. However, duck hunting in the high plains unit reopens Dec. 13 and continues through Jan. 4, 2015. In addition, the season for Canada geese closes Dec. 25, except for the Missouri River Zone, which closes Jan. 2, 2015. Light goose hunting closes statewide Jan. 4, 2015. Archery deer, fall turkey, sharp-tailed and ruffed grouse, partridge, pheasant and tree squirrel hunting seasons continue through Jan. 4, 2015....
In a press release dated November 17, 2014, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, said a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant has helped initiate a partnership that is improving the environment, creating a market for carbon credits generated on working grasslands. Chevrolet, a division of General Motors, recently purchased almost 40,000 carbon dioxide reduction tons generated on working grasslands in the Prairie Pothole region of North Dakota. This announcement...
Peak tornado activity in the central and southern Great Plains of the United States is occurring up to two weeks earlier than it did half a century ago, according to a new Montana State University study whose findings could help states in "Tornado Alley" better prepare for these violent storms. Tornado records from Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Texas -- an area of high tornado activity dubbed "Tornado Alley" -- show that peak tornado activity is starting and ending earlier than it...
