NORTH DAKOTA – Businesses in North Dakota have re-opened their doors, but not before implementing some guidelines. “Staff will be wearing masks when they’re interacting with customers within six feet. We have our sanitation out front, we’ve got a jar with clean pins and a jar for dirty pins. We’re down to 12 tables. We normally have about 26 here,”…
WEST FARGO, N.D. – West Fargo Park District delivers some joy to kids stuck at home this May Day. With help from the bakery The Best Thing You Ever put in Your Mouth, the park district gets to finalize their recent at home activity to pull some of the younger children away from screens. The park district left out coloring…
NORTH DAKOTA – The governor focused on embracing telework and technology, investing in process improvement and analyzing vacant positions. He asked state agencies to focus on goals and outcomes, and to think strategically on how they can reinvent existing processes to create more value for citizens. “If you’re a smaller agency with less than a $5 million adjusted base budget,…
NORTH DAKOTA – Gov. Doug Burgum says students will continue distance learning through the rest of the school year. He says the decision was made with input from the Department of Public Instruction, Department of Health, various administrators, school boards and legislators. Burgum says this allows teachers to prepare for the fall term, as well as focus on planning healthy…
FARGO, N.D.–West Acres will reopen May 8 with new COVID-19 policies and procedures in place. The new policies include limited mall hours, altered food court operations, a new minor policy, closure of high-touch and furniture areas and distancing guidelines. West Acres officials say, “For the foreseeable future, a shopping trip to West Acres will feel different. If it didn’t, we…
CASS COUNTY, N.D.–Four Cass County residents have died from COVID-19-related illnesses. All four individuals had underlying health conditions. A man and woman in their 90s, a woman in her 80s and a man in his 70s passed away on Friday. The four new deaths bring the total in North Dakota to 23. The state is also reporting 40 new COVID-19…
FARGO, N.D.–Four Fargo seniors earned perfect 36 composite scores on the ACT this year. Only nine students in the whole state succeeded in earning a perfect score; three from Bismarck, one from Devils Lake, one from Grand Forks and four from Fargo. State School Superintendent Kirsten Baesler congratulated the students saying, “It is a rare event for a student to…
FARGO, N.D.–Happy Harry’s RibFest has been canceled. The festival was scheduled June 3-6 at the Fargodome and would have marked the 25th year of the event. Event organizers determined it was in the best interest and safety of the 50,000 event attendees to cancel the festival. The 25th annual event milestone will be celebrated at next year’s festival on June…
FARGO, N.D. — The North Dakota State department of health has received some reinforcement from students at NDSU. The students will assist in contact tracing, one of the main techniques used to manage outbreaks. “This is completely outside of classwork,” said NDSU’s chair of the Public Health Department Pamela Jo Johnson. “We created a contract with the state health department…
FARGO N.D. — NDSU Professor Dr. Paul Carson says looking at new hospitalizations and deaths instead of new cases is a better way of gauging the virus. As testing across North Dakota has increased, the number of hospitalizations and deaths have leveled off. Carson still urges people to take necessary precautions when going out in public. “Whatever we do that…
