Hjemkomst Center

City Leaders Want Public Input on Metro 2050: Future Transportation Plan For FM Metro

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Metro 2050 is out and leaders want to hear from you. It’s the latest 5-year update to the transportation plan by Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council of Governments, or Metro COG. It will guide investments in transporation in the metro including walking, biking, car, transit, and freight. You can provide your input online or at two public input…

Moorhead will have underpass project open houses about road closures and construction

\MOORHEAD, Minn., (KVRR)– In Moorhead, the 11th Street Underpass project has started with road closures and open Houses. First Avenue between 10th and 12th streets as well as 11th street between 2nd Avenue North and Main Avenue are now closed. The closures are expected to last for awhile since the entire project will take about two and a half years…

‘Flour Massacre’ protestors gather in Moorhead

  MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Outside the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead, Minn., protestors chanted ‘ceasefire now’ and ‘free, free Palestine’. They were protesting the February 29th events that took place in Gaza where people were killed waiting for aid convoys in what is being called the ‘Flour Massacre’. “Just meaningful to see people come out and speak of the injustices…

46th Annual Scandinavian Festival kicks off with first full day of events

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – It’s a day some people in our area look forward to each year… A day to celebrate their Nordic Heritage.   The Scandinavian Festival is a fun filled time of Nordic food, music, and culture.  “Scandinavian Festival is a two-day event. We are celebrating our Nordic heritage with clubs that belong to the Nordic Culture Club…

LIVE: Celebrate Nordic Food, Music & Culture With Week-Long Scandinavian Festival

Discover your inner viking all week long next week in the Metro

  Discover your inner viking all week long next week in the Metro. Nordic Culture Clubs are putting on the Scandinavian festival for the first time since COVID first hit. Festivities started with Moorhead’s RiverArts event this week. There are events next week starting Sunday celebrating folklore, history, food and more stretching through the festival itself next weekend at the…

10th annual Moorhead Farmers Market kick off

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Moorhead Parks and Recreation kicked off their 10th annual Moorhead Farmers Market. The market is an exciting summer spot for people of all ages.  It is held every Tuesday through September 26th from 3:30-6:30 pm in the Hjemkomst Center’s parking lot.  “So this is the first day of the farmers market, it’s our 10th season which is really…

Frozen, Fleeting Art Takes Shape For Frostival Snow Sculpture Competition

Viking Ship park outside the Hjemkomst Center is transforming into a gallery full or art that won't be around very long

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Viking Ship park outside the Hjemkomst Center is transforming into a gallery full or art that won’t be around very long. You’ll be able to see a bunch of finished snow sculptures this Saturday at the Frostival Snow Sculpture Competition. But it takes a lot longer than a day to turn a cube of snow into…

LIVE: KVRR’s Marshall Downing To Take The Stage With FMCT

"A Few Good Men" Plays At Hjemkomst Center The Next 2 Weekends

  Fargo/Moorhead Community Theater’s newest show has a face familiar to folks who watch KVRR Local News. Friday is opening night for “A Few Good Men” at the Hjemkomst Center. The military legal drama tries to unravel who was responsible for the death of a soldier on a military base. KVRR Morning Meteorologist Marshall Downing is in the cast. It’s…

Educating Veterans on Benefits at the Hjemkomst Center

The Fargo VA Health Care System teamed up with several veteran driven groups to educate vets on available healthcare and job training.

FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The Fargo VA Health Care System teamed up with several veteran driven groups to educate vets on available healthcare and job training. There’s also an art exhibit with a focus on their healing. “It definitely gives you chills. We all have different stories and hearing others and what they’ve gone through, you definitely have a lot…

‘Remembering the Forgotten Pandemic’: Student exhibit examines 1918 Spanish Flu

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – Wednesday marked opening night for a new exhibit examining the Spanish Flu and the lives it took in the Red River Valley. Behind a glass case at the Hjemkomst Center, diaries, letters and newspapers show calls for quarantines, face masks and business closures across the Red River Valley. “With COVID-19 going on at the moment, you…