MOORHEAD, Minn. — Whether they’re just starting college or wrapping things up, the Bridge Bash is giving all college students a big welcome (back) to the area. “We’re so excited because we have NDSU students invited, MSUM, and Concordia, as well as all the other students,” said Sheri Larson with the Moorhead Business Association. Music, food and games are all…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — The Minnesota House Capital Investment Committee is on a tour across the Twin Cities and Northwest Minnesota. The group stopped at MSUM to learn about the renovation of Weld Hall. They also toured the 11th Street railroad grade separation in Moorhead. Representatives go a tour each year before the bonding bill to see local projects that have…
The fall Honor Flight that will bring many of the region’s veterans to see the Washington, D.C. and the monuments that honor them is only a few weeks away. For many of these veterans, the nation’s capital is a sight they’ve never seen before. And for a few, it may be their final chance to do so. One of this…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Sprinklers help contain a fire at a Moorhead company that has a history with flames breaking out. Crews responded to the Pactiv Corporation building along 42nd street south around seven this morning. The company manufactures and distributes food packaging. Firefighters found smoke coming from the main part of the building and the loading bay. Moorhead Fire Department…
MOORHEAD, MINN. – Minnesota House members are in Moorhead and other northwestern Minnesota communities Thursday, hearing pitches for projects vying for state bonding dollars. Hermantown Democrat Mary Murphy, chair of the House Capital Investment Committee, says last legislative session while assembling a bonding bill that ultimately didn’t pass, lawmakers heard the local needs and want to address those now so…
American hockey players versus Russian players almost always equals a scintillating time on the ice. And this time around, HOPE Inc. is amping up the excitement. That’s because for the first time ever, their standout adaptive athletes are invited to face off against Russia as well as the top American youth teams in the first-ever International Youth Sled Hockey Tournament….
The silent music of the celestial spheres is something we’ve wondered about for as long as humans have been watching the skies above. Holst tried to capture its sound in his “The Planets,” but for something that’s based on real science, head on over to the Plains Art Museum instead. Musician/scientists are capturing the vibrations of the planets, and they’re…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Park Christian is home to more than 430 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The school’s staff says you can expect that number to go up in the future though, meaning the campus will have to keep up. “We’re trying to transform our building to make it more accessible for more families to come here. We’re anticipating…
FARGO, N.D. — A Fargo couple packs some bags, sells everything they own and hop in their Toyota to inspire and do some good. Faith and Jon Moore started “Tour for a Cause.” They left for Illinois on August 31 and will visit every state through December. The couple is trying to raise $50,000 for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital while…
It’s been a century already, and so much more has to be done. But we’re taking a moment to remember that until 1919, women in this country didn’t have the right to vote. And there were a lot of people standing in their way trying to keep it from happening. By then, the suffragettes already had a long and courageous…
