WAHPETON, ND — The family of Nathan Gossett is inviting the NDSCS community to his visitation. The 18-year-old student was found dead in his dorm room on Monday. The visitation is Friday 2-7 pm at Joseph Vertin and Sons Funeral Home in Breckenridge. The family is encouraging people to wear purple in honor of suicide awareness. Counseling services are…
Tuesday night marked the first moments of Hannukah, as Jewish families all across the country and right here in the Red River Valley region gathered around the menorah to light the first candle celebrating the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights. If you missed it, don’t worry — Wednesday is the first full day of the holiday. There’s still plenty of…
If you’re still stymied as to gifts for loved ones this holiday season, time is running out. But a new gift card on offer from Fargo’s Downtown Community Partnership could streamline the holiday gift-gathering process. The cards can have any amount, from five to five hundred dollars, loaded on them. They’re good at fifty different downtown businesses and they can…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to fill Sen. Al Franken’s seat until the November election. Dayton’s announcement Wednesday had been widely expected. Smith served as Dayton’s trusted chief of staff for three years before ascending to become his No. 2. She was once considered a likely candidate to succeed him, but…
Mooreton, N.D. (KFGO) – A barn was destroyed by fire in Richland County, North Dakota early Wednesday morning. Deputy Aaron Grenz says crews were called shortly before 4:30 a.m. to 17005 Highway 13 in rural Mooreton. Mooreton, Dwight, Great Bend and Barney fire crews responded but the barn was destroyed. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Categories: Agriculture,…
FARGO, ND — The iPhone has recently come out with some features to help you in the case of an emergency. Our phones usually don’t leave our hands, our pockets or our sight. We are constantly using them to talk to our friends and answer work emails, but in this technological world we live in, they could also be a life…
WAHPETON, ND — Students and faculty are grieving the loss of 18-year-old NDSCS freshman, Nathan Gossett. Gossett, whose cause of death is still unknown, passed away Monday night. At a close–knit school of about 1,000 students, it can be hard to lose someone you are used to seeing every day. NDSCS counselor Vince Plummer said after hearing the news, the…
WEST FARGO, ND — Most kids don’t ask their parents to hold a food drive for their birthday. That is, unless they’re 9-year-old Gowri Pillai. The only thing this West Fargo girl wants is help in donating more than 600 pounds of food to Great Plains Food Bank. The Pillai family Christmas tree isn’t surrounded by your traditional presents. Instead, you’ll…
MOORHEAD, Minn. — Moorhead High School is honoring and celebrating Superintendent Dr. Lynne Kovash. Kovash, who dedicated 30 years of service to the Moorhead school district, retired at the end of November after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this spring. “She’s always about the kids,” Moorhead Mayor Del Rae Williams said. “She’s compassionate, she is a do-er, she’s no…
FARGO, ND — Fargo Force players are stepping off the ice and into Kennedy Elementary School to read to first graders. They spent the morning in all four first grade classrooms reading some of their favorite stories out loud. The players not only read to the kids but answered some questions about their lives on the ice. They also told…
