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Game and Fish Briefs

By Kim Fundingsland on February 14, 2022
Spring Light Goose Conservation Order  North Dakota’s spring light goose conservation order opens Feb. 19 and continues through May 15.  Residents must have a 2021-22 (valid through March 31) or 2022-23 (required April 1) combination license, or a small game, and general game and habitat license. Resident youth under age 16 only need a general […]
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Border Blockade Continues at Pembina/Emerson

By Marvin Baker on February 14, 2022
Now that the U.S./Canada border at Pembina, North Dakota and Emerson, Manitoba has been blockaded a week, motorists have no choice but to cross the border at alternative ports of entry. If Canadians are coming into North Dakota from eastern Manitoba or vice versa, they are urged to cross at Neche, North Dakota and Gretna, […]
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Burgum Congratulates NDSU on Raising $586.7M to Benefit Students, Faculty, Programs and Facilities

By The Dakotan on February 14, 2022
FARGO — Gov. Doug Burgum today joined officials at North Dakota State University to announce that the university’s six-year “In Our Hands” fundraising campaign raised a grand total of $586.7 million. The governor joined NDSU President Dean Bresciani, NDSU Foundation President John Glover, campaign co-chairs Robert and Sheila Challey and Steve and Mary Anne Swiontek, […]
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Hoeven Joins Thune, Colleagues in Introducing Resolution to Nullify Head Start Vaccine, Masks Mandates

By The Dakotan on February 14, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator John Hoeven, R-N.D., joined Senator John Thune, R-S.D., in introducing a resolution to nullify a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) interim final rule (IFR) that requires all Head Start staff and volunteers to be fully vaccinated and wear a mask. If enacted, this resolution would also nullify the […]
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Air Force Grants First Religious Accommodations to COVID-19 Vaccine

By The Dakotan on February 14, 2022
The Department of the Air Force has approved nine religious accommodation requests to its COVID-19 vaccine requirement, it announced Feb. 8, marking the first such accommodations approved by the department since the requirement went into effect late last year. Eight of the religious exemptions were approved by the service members’ major command or field command, […]
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Food Storage Part II

By Charlene Nelson on February 14, 2022
Chances are good that your grandma kept a well-stocked pantry. She called it “putting by” and she thought it was just common sense to always have a good supply of food on hand. But with the prosperity in the decades following the Great Depression, this practice has fallen into disuse. Maybe it's time to revive […]
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Upside Down Under: Swinging the pendulum 

By Marvin Baker on February 13, 2022
The world of communications is constantly changing and most of it runs parallel to the changes in technology. And for those of us who work in communications, it’s sometimes been a difficult transformation. As an example in each of the past three years, North Dakota has lost three weekly newspapers in the Dunn County Herald […]
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A Perfect Release

By Kim Fundingsland on February 13, 2022
Student archers take aim in Garrison  GARRISON — A patient instructor was helping a young archer determine the proper aiming point. Moments later the light swish of a released bowstring and flight of an arrow was followed by the distinctive thunk of a target being struck. Young archers were eagerly practicing their craft in the […]
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Upside Down Under: Regina to Minot 250 

By Marvin Baker on February 12, 2022
It wasn’t quite the Iditarod, but we had our own version of long-distance winter recreation that was fun for a lot of people.  How many of you remember a snowmobile race that started in Regina and ended in Minot? It was called the Regina Minot International 250 that took place in the 1970s and early […]
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Dakota Elementary Students Encouraging Dorm Airmen

By Abigail Kinder on February 12, 2022
MINOT AFB — In everyday conversations at Minot Air Force Base, one often hears about how tough an assignment it is. From subzero temperatures to the feelings of isolation that come with living in a “small” town on the plains of North Dakota, Minot challenges those who come here, especially the single airmen far from […]
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