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Faces of the Boom: Ranch hand, poet has seen oil booms blossom and bust

Day hand, cowboy poet and songwriter DW Groethe takes a break from fencing Wednesday north of Bainville. Kathleen J. Bryan / Forum News Service

'Where's the humanity?': Area homeless respond to Moorhead apartment concerns

John “Wheels” Krueger talks Thursday at the Churches United for the Homeless shelter in Moorhead about how housing for recently homeless people would help them. Photo by Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor

One last hurrah for Oak Mound School

Barbara Anderson, Tom Barth and Bev Cronk pose for a photo next to an Oak Mound School horse-drawn school bus built in 1913. An all-school reunion of students and teachers from the Oak Mound School was held Sunday, west of Kragnes. The country school closed in 1957. The trio did not attend the school, but their mothers did. Photos by Dave Wallis / The Forum

ND ag commissioner race all about oil

Ryan Taylor, the Democratic candidate for North Dakota agriculture commissioner, repairs a cattle fence with a rope tie on his 2,900-acre ranch near Towner, N.D. Photo by Reuters

NDSU buildings need major work

Street work and sidewalk demolition is underway near Stevens Hall at North Dakota State University. A report commissioned by the state university system estimated it will cost almost $6 million to finish all the maintenance work Stevens Hall needs. Photo by David Samson / The Forum
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Judge won’t kill lawsuit filed by sex offenders
 JAMESTOWN, N.D. – A federal judge won’t throw out a lawsuit by two dozen sex offenders who were civilly committed to the North Dakota State Hospital here. The lawsuit, filed last December, claims the state’s actions deny them a realistic chance for release. It’s seeking...
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Post office employee to plead guilty to stealing
BISMARCK – A Tappen, N.D., post office employee will plead guilty to theft. Samantha Mittleider is facing a federal charge of misappropriation of postal funds and false statements, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison. The charges accuse Mittleider of stealing...
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Website launched for Native American veterans
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., has launched a new website for Native American veterans to find information about accessing the benefits and services they’ve earned. According to a recent news release, the new site, which can be accessed at http://www.heitkamp.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/native-american-veterans,...
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Crew leader Ed Weber, left, assists Zach Bezek as they put a Canada goose into a crate on their truck after rounding up four at Stone Ridge Golf Course last Wednesday in Stillwater, Minn. Ginger Pinson / Forum News Service
Company keeps Twin Cities’ Canada geese population in check
COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. – The Canada geese were treasures once – majestic, rare, nearly hunted into oblivion. Tom Keefe spent the late 1970s...
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Three injured in rollover near Thief River Falls
THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. – Three people were injured in a single-vehicle rollover near here Saturday night. The Minnesota State Patrol said Glenn V. Meyer, 73, of Thief River Falls, was driving a 1998 Ford Explorer northbound on U.S. Highway 59 when a deer came out of the east...
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Stanley, North Dakota resident Dorothy Lantto holds a jar of Bakken crude oil taken from her husband’s family’s property before the start of the oil boom in western North Dakota. The Lanttos’ land was rich in oil, but they sold the mineral rights to a neighbor for $1,000 an acre before the start of major oil harvesting. Kile Brewer / Forum News Service
Oil boom causes high prices, housing shortage in Stanley, ND
STANLEY, N.D. — For Dorothy Lantto, the price is finally right. Lantto, 69, of Stanley sat watching “The Price is Right,” a popular TV...
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Neighbors: Fargo woman wonder what happened to Coca-Cola carousels
Michele Thomaier, Fargo, is trying “to uncover the fate of one of my childhood delights,” the Coke carousel. “In the early 1960s, when I was about 4 or 5,” Michele writes, “the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. would bring a small carousel to the grocery stores. I remember it...
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Stanley, North Dakota resident Dorothy Lantto holds a jar of Bakken crude oil taken from her husband’s family’s property before the start of the oil boom in western North Dakota. The Lanttos’ land was rich in oil, but they sold the mineral rights to a neighbor for $1,000 an acre before the start of major oil harvesting. Kile Brewer / Forum News Service
Oil boom causes high prices, housing shortage in Stanley, ND
STANLEY, N.D. — For Dorothy Lantto, the price is finally right. Lantto, 69, of Stanley sat watching “The Price is Right,” a popular TV...
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Michael Fox, curator of the Museum of the Rockies, talks about the work of photographer David F. Barry at the Douglas County Historical Society in Superior last Wednesday. The DCHS opened an exhibit featuring Barry’s works with Native Americans and the frontier armies, as well as his later years in life when he was a photographer in Superior. Jed Carlson / Forum News Service
Frontier photographer featured in Wisconsin exhibit
SUPERIOR, Wis. – It was an age when the camera was larger than a toaster oven. Images were captured on 8-by-10-inch cut glass, and the chemicals...
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Marty Seifert is a Republican candidate for Minnesota governor. Forum News Service
Candidate Seifert says he understands farmers, small towns in feeling left behind
In the dairy barn at the Dodge County Fair in Kasson last week, farmer Mary Buck told Republican gubernatorial candidate Marty Seifert that a...
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Jay Leitch casts lines for catfish in the Red River in Moorhead. Leitch, whose arm is in a sling from a recent shoulder surgery, occasionally guides for catfish. Brad Dokken / Forum News Service
‘Casual’ catfish guide explains his fishing techniques on Red River
Moorhead - The morning sun was barely as high as the bald eagle that circled just above the trees along the Red River, and already it was...
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Canadian Pacific Railway under pressure for 2013 delays
GRAND FORKS – With pressure already on BNSF Railway to put a stop to delays of grain shipments in North Dakota, attention now shifts to Canadian...
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Josh Dockter, who lives near West Fargo, puts the finishing touches on a remotely operated vehicle before sending it into Lake Sallie in Detroit Lakes, Minn. on Saturday. Kia Farhang / The Forum
Clay County 4-H’ers test water robots
DETROIT LAKES, MINN. — Emily Dockter held two battery clips in her hands as she stood on the dock at Lake Sallie on Saturday. “Black to...
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FARGO – With their combination of reference-laden comedy and “No Spin Zone” commentary, Dennis Miller and Bill O’Reilly’s show here...
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Clay County crash injures two
MOORHEAD – Two people were injured in a car accident east of here Saturday afternoon. The Minnesota State Patrol said a westbound 2013 Chevy Silverado on 90th Avenue North ran a stop sign, causing the vehicle to be struck broadside by a 2006 Dodge Caravan that was southbound...
news / accidentsJuly 26, 2014 - 7:51pm

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