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Full-scale disaster exercise set for Wednesday at Hector International Airport

June 8, 2021

Jim Monk,

FARGO (KVRR) – A full-scale airport disaster simulation will be held at Hector International Airport in Fargo Wednesday. The scenario involves an aircraft carrying 62 passengers and 4 crew members that crashes upon landing. Airport officials say the simulation is conducted every three years to meet FAA requirements and to provide first responders an opportunity to react to an airline…

Power Restored For Some Moorhead Residents After Lighting Hits Substation

Power Restored After About 5 Hours For Residents

June 8, 2021

Site Staff,

MOORHEAD, Minn. – Power is back on Tuesday morning after being out for much of the night for part of Moorhead. Moorhead Public Service says in a Facebook post that lightning hit equipment at a substation and caused damage that was worse than expected. Power went out for residents around 10:30 Monday night. There’s no word on exactly how many…

Parents petition to recall Fargo School Board Members

The four school board members listed in the petition include; Jim Johnson, Dr. Tracie Newman, Seth Holden and Nikkie Gullickson.

June 7, 2021

Aaron Walling,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Some Fargo Public School parents have created a petition to recall four School Board members. “Myself and a group of parents have gotten together to start a campaign to recall the Fargo School board. There’s four that are eligible to be recalled at this time; the other five are up for reelection in less than a…

Fargo’s Northside Pool named in honor of Roger G. Gress

Gress has worked with the park district for 36 years before retiring in 2016.

June 7, 2021

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FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Park District unveils a new name for one of its locations. “We are renaming the Northside Recreational Pool after our past Executive Director Roger Gress,” Fargo Park District Executive Director Dave Leker said. Gress has worked with the park district for 36 years before retiring in 2016. “It’s like I got bit by the park…

Hundreds Block Line 3 Pipeline Work Station

Indigenous leaders, actress Jane Fonda and more than one thousand water protectors march to the headwaters of the Mississippi River

June 7, 2021

KVRR Staff,

SOLWAY, Minn. (KVRR) – Indigenous leaders, actress Jane Fonda and more than one thousand water protectors march to the headwaters of the Mississippi River where the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline is proposed to cross the water. They were so determined to stop it, they chained themselves to equipment. Hundreds of protesters led by the Treaty People Gathering rallied and marched…

West Fargo Police hiring college students for community service officers

Students who are enrolled in a law enforcement or criminal justice program can apply for the Community Service Officer position.

June 7, 2021

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WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The West Fargo Police Department is hiring college students for a part-time position with the team. Students who are enrolled in a law enforcement or criminal justice program can apply for the Community Service Officer position. They’ll enforce parking and animal ordinances, assist sworn and civilian staff with records and respond to vehicle unlocks. The…

Tickets Go On Sale For First Trollwood Summer Production Since 2019

June 7, 2021

TJ Nelson,

MOORHEAD, Minn. — Trollwood is back with a big stage production this summer of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Tickets went on sale Monday morning for the performances scheduled for mid through late July. They run between $15 and $35 with special discount rates for groups of ten or more. The July 14 performance has already sold out! The production of…

Police Identify People Involved in Murder-Suicide in Wahpeton

June 7, 2021

TJ Nelson,

WAHPETON, N.D. — Police release the names of two people who died in a murder-suicide early Friday morning in Wahpeton. The medical examiner’s office determined that 52-year-old Karen Ertelt-Wanner died of multiple gunshot wounds. 62-year-old Gregory Zander’s death was the result of a single gunshot wound. Police responded after Ertelt-Wanner reported that she’d been threatened by a man with a…

Children’s Miracle Network Golf Tournament raises funds for children

100 percent of the proceeds raised at the tournament will go directly towards local children at Sanford Health.

June 7, 2021

Aaron Walling,

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) –An annual golf tournament is helping raise funds for sick children at Sanford Health. Remax Legacy Realty and Designer Homes of Fargo-Moorhead are hosting the fifth annual Children’s Miracle Network Golf Tournament and are aiming to raise over $25,000. Since its inception, the tournament has helped raise over $126,000 to aid in research, purchasing medical equipment and…

Update: Oil pipeline foes protest Enbridge’s Line 3 in Minnesota

June 7, 2021

Jim Monk,

DHS/Border Patrol is using helicopter rotor wash to try to clear out activists out from an occupied #Line3 pump station north of Park Rapids. More than 24 activists are locked down to equipment inside. @MPRnews pic.twitter.com/ArTN6FAqwC — Evan Frost (@efrostee) June 7, 2021 SOLWAY, Minn. (AP) – Hundreds of protesters chanting “Stop Line 3!” and “Water is life!” gathered at…