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Sidney, Montana's Young Professionals chapter put on a conference to showcase their town. Here's what we learned from showing up. Editor's note: As part of MTFP's Long Streets Project, reporter Eric Dietrich spent a few days in early June on the road in eastern Montana. This is his dispatch. It's a Thursday afternoon in Sidney, the 6,400-resident city on the plains along Montana's border with North Dakota. I'm sheltering from a passing tornado inside a boutique cookware shop, staring at a wall...
Members of the Watford City High School Student Ambassadors Leadership team have joined Vision West as student advisors to share their voice and ideas in support of Vision West ND and their mission. Vision West is a consortium that represents 19 energy producing counties in Western ND. The goal for this group as they lead, educate and collaborate, is to mobilize western North Dakota towards a resilient and prosperous quality of life for all residents promoting long-term sustainability for our...
The Watford City and the Rough Rider Center will be hosting the 2021 North Dakota West Region Legion A Baseball Tournament July 21 – 24. Teams participating in the tournament include Bismarck Reps, Bismarck Caps, Mandan A’s, Minot Metros, Bismarck Scarlets, Bismarck Senators, Williston Oilers, Dickinson Volunteers, Jamestown Eagles, and Watford City Walleye. Two games will be on Wednesday with four games occurring each of the next three days. The top four teams will advance to the state tournament in Jamestown. Brackets will be finalized aft...
Lewis & Clark Museum, Alexander, will commemorate the Great Western Cattle Trail Drive, Sunday, July 18 at 2 p.m. The museum has been gifted with the honor of housing one of the many obelisks and a plaque celebrating the journey of millions of cattle and horses traveling from just south of Texas to Canada during 1870s-1890s. Rotary Clubs from south Texas to North Dakota have teamed up to mark trails with cement obelisks every 6-10 miles and North Dakota is the third of nine states on the...
Williston - The public is invited to these upcoming events at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Williston. All events are free and open to the public. All times are Central. July 15: Confluence History Book Club, 7 p.m. Join history buffs to discuss this month’s book. Free refreshments. July 16-17: Confluence Sewing and Quilting, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. All experience levels welcome and instruction provided. Bring your own lunch. For more information, contact Debbie Crossland or Joe Garcia at 701-572-9034. The M...
Omaha, NE - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District announced approval of the Garrison Dam Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota Shoreline Management Plan. The plan establishes policy and furnishes guidelines for the protection and preservation of the desirable environmental characteristics of Lake Sakakawea shoreline. It includes the permitting process for the public, private dock areas, vegetative management, shoreline zoning designations and maps. In alignment with applicable federal laws, directives and policies, the plan is a guide to...
The annual dryland agronomy and horticulture field day will be held Wednesday, July 14 at the North Dakota State University Williston Research Extension Center 4.5 miles west of Williston on U.S. Highway 2. The event begins with registration at 3 p.m. CST. The dryland crops tour starts at 3:45 p.m. A concurrent horticulture program starts at 3:45 p.m. in the Ernie French Center for those interested in flowers, gardening, lawn care and fruit/vegetable production followed by a garden tour. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be at 6 p.m. for our new...
The AllCheck Medical Clinic will be having its grand opening and a meal July 14 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at 223 N. Central Ave., Sidney (located at the east end of the Checkers building). The Allcheck Medical Clinic offers patient health care for every stage of life. Its goal is to provide a medical facility where patients can be comfortable, listened to, and understood. They focus on prevention and staying well - they will be available when something comes up, whether that means caring for you in th...
Arne Kvaalen, 97, West Lafayette, IN, passed away peacefully in his home on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. He is now beholding the face of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Born to Osten and Esther Kvaalen Jan. 22, 1923 in Bismarck, ND, he was raised on a homesteader's wheat farm near Lambert, MT. Arne attended Concordia College, Moorehead, MN, in 1940, then enlisted in the U.S. Navy after Pearl Harbor and went through officers' training followed by UDT training in Ft. Pierce, FL. He served in the...
One of the biggest events in Western North Dakota takes place on Main Street Watford City. The Best of the West Ribfest, Street Fair and Classic Car show is set for Aug. 13, and it just keeps getting bigger and better than ever. This year's free concert headliner is chart topping and Grammy Award Winning country legend Wynonna Judd. As one-half of the legendary mother/daughter duo "The Judds", Wynonna was once dubbed by Rolling Stone as «the greatest female country singer since Patsy Cline"....
Bismarck - North Dakota humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson was featured on CBS Sunday Morning on May 30 in a feature on the search for the geographic center of North America. CBS producer Stephen Dustin asked Jenkinson to appear for an interview after learning of Jenkinson's forthcoming book on North Dakota, 'The Language of Cottonwoods: Essays on the Future of North Dakota'. Jenkinson provided wry commentary on the controversy over the geographic center of North Dakota that now includes three...
The City of Watford City is in the midst of developing a long-term infrastructure Master Plan. Public input is desired at this point of the planning process to ensure the plan is aligned with the appropriate priorities. Over the last decade, communities across western North Dakota have experienced rapid population growth, primarily due to increased oil and gas activity during the recent surge in the oil and gas industry. Watford City was one of the fastest growing communities in the state, growing from 1,800 people in 2010 to an estimated...
The new state-of-the-art NDSU Williston Research Extension Center (WREC) seed cleaning facility is nearing completion. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the building will be held after field day tours on Wednesday, July 14. The new facility will clean seed approximately 200 bushels an hour, which is six times faster than the Center's current seed cleaning facility. The seed will also be all on one level so WREC staff will be able to perform several projects at once. "We will be able to more than...
At 4:50 p.m. CT, Gautam Pradhan, WRECs Dryland Research Agronomist, will be demonstrating how to use an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in variety selection and sharing information about UAV's performance on crop production and precision field management at the Williston Research Extension Center's Dryland Field Day, July 14. The project Pradhan will be speaking on includes the applicability of UAV based high throughput phenotyping in the identification of drought tolerant cereal genotypes. "We...
Starting at 5:15 p.m. CT at Williston Extension Center's Dryland Field Day, July 14, Dr. Carrie Miranda will be speaking about different soybean varieties as well as providing an update on her current soybean research at North Dakota State University. Miranda, NDSU Assistant Professor in Soybean Breeding, aims to produce high-yielding soybean varieties to maximize success for North Dakota farmers. The NDSU soybean program uses varieties that contain value-protecting traits such as IDC,...
Dr. Audrey Kalil will be discussing root rot of peas at 4:05 p.m. CT at Williston Extension Center's Dryland Field Day, July 14. Kalil is currently conducting disease management research in pulse crops- her work in peas and lentils focuses on Fusarium and Aphanomyces root rot. According to ag.ndsu.edu, root rots are an important yield-limiting factor in lentil and pea production. The primary causal agents of root rot of peas and lentils are the fungal pathogens: Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium...
Dr. Brian Jenks will be discussing kochia control, weed control in dry conditions, and weed resistance at 4:25 p.m. CT at Williston Research Extension Center's Dryland Field Day, July 14. Jenks is a North Central Research Extension Center weed scientist who conducts weed control research in most crops grown in western North Dakota. He and his team have been conducting research to help provide farmers with alternatives for combatting difficult-to-control weeds like glyphosate-resistant kochia,...
The 2021 McKenzie County 4-H Project Expo and 4-H Communication Arts Events were held May 18 at the NDSU Extension/McKenzie County office. The 4-H Project Expo event provides youth with the opportunity to plan, prepare and display an article, educational or food related project. Four-H members also verbally express themselves to a judge. At the close of the contest, ribbon awards were presented to each participant. Senior (13-18 year olds) Ethan Roffler was awarded a Grand Champion ribbon on his display, “Playing With Soap.” Ethan was inv...
WILLISTON, N.D. – The public is invited to these upcoming events at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Williston. All events are free and open to the public. All times are Central time. July 15 Confluence History Book Club, 7 p.m. Join history buffs to discuss this month's book. Free refreshments. July 16-17 Confluence Sewing and Quilting, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. All experience levels welcome and instruction provided. Bring your own lunch. For more information, contact Debbie Crossland or Joe Garcia at 701.572.9034. The M...
Who doesn't love a good car show? Why? Is it because it's a touch stone to the past, Is it because it reminds us of yester year, the stories that Mom and Dad or Grandma and Grandpa used to tell us about the first car they owned or being stuck in the snow on the way to cousin Nell's house. Maybe they remind us of a magical time in America when things were; slower, simpler and innocent. Living in eastern Montana and western North Dakota is like stepping in to a time warp. Storeowners still know...
Medora, ND - Chateau de Morès State Historic Site will present its perennially popular History Alive programs again this summer. The free History Alive programs explore the lives and times of decades gone by, combining theater arts with history. The 30-minute monologues are based on original letters, diaries, and other documents, many from the State Archives of the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Presentations are held on the Chateau veranda Saturdays at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m., and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m....
Arne Kvaalen, 97, West Lafayette, IN, passed away peacefully in his home on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. He is now beholding the face of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Born to Osten and Esther Kvaalen Jan. 22, 1923 in Bismarck, ND, he was raised on a homesteader's wheat farm near Lambert, MT. Arne attended Concordia College, Morehead, MN, in 1940, then enlisted in the U.S. Navy after Pearl Harbor and went through officers' training followed by UDT training in Ft. Pierce, FL. He served in the...
Sidney - Sidney Health Center is excited to announce a joint venture with fAIRMED, a critical care transport company, to bring an affordable air ambulance service to residents living in the MonDak region. Through donations from Foundation for Community Care and Richland County, Sidney Health Center was able to secure $2.9 million in funding to purchase a plane for a new air ambulance service known as Sidney Health Center Care Flight. Donations in the amounts of $1.9 from the Foundation for...
The new state-of-the-art NDSU Williston Research Extension Center (WREC) seed cleaning facility is nearing completion. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the building will be held after field day tours on Wednesday, July 14. The new facility will clean seed approximately 200 bushels an hour, which is six times faster than the Center's current seed cleaning facility. The seed will also be all on one level so WREC staff will be able to perform several projects at once. "We will be able to more than...
Helena - Public access along the lower Yellowstone River is a rare commodity. However, a new committee convened by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and sponsored by Gov. Greg Gianforte is looking to improve access here and as a result protect fish and wildlife habitat and provide for more outdoor recreation opportunities. “The lower Yellowstone is a unique Montana treasure with some of our most important agriculture lands, thriving rural communities and amazing hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Gov. Gianforte. “We’re looking to engage...
