Berthold City Council denies rezoning for Enbridge expansion

The Berthold City Council relocated from City Hall to the Sportsmen’s building across Main Street for their regular meeting Monday night. The move was necessary to accommodate the number of local residents who showed up to speak about Enbridge’s request to have an 80-acre parcel of land rezoned from agricultural to industrial use for a proposed expansion of their facilities.

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Second confirmed West Nile case this summer is young Kenmare boy

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Bremer Bank to pull out of Berthold

After 45 years in Berthold, Bremer Bank will close the doors to its branch location there at the end of the business day on October 29, 2010.

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Berthold citizens and Enbridge differ on expansion

The message came across clearly from the public during the Berthold Planning/Zoning Committee’s meeting Monday night: We want Enbridge to collect and transport oil here, but we want them west of the railroad tracks.

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New operator of Carpio cafe grew up in the business

“I’m a traditional kind of cook,” said Candie Rohrer, who just leased the Valley Inn Cafe in Carpio and reopened it as Candie’s Cafe. “That means a lot of good old-fashioned food with some German behind it.”

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AmeriCorps offers young adults valuable experiences while they are doing good for the country

Kenmare’s Pioneer Village received some extra help sprucing up for their recent Pioneer Day festivities from a team of AmeriCorps/National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) volunteers. And while the Village looked better for the efforts, the NCCC team also benefited from their experiences in North Dakota.

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Two "Kenmare boys" spend their summer flying into storms

When the thunder starts rumbling before a summer storm in Ward County, most folks head indoors and shut the windows to wait out the weather. Contrary to common sense, Chad Gravesen and Derek Peterson make a dash for their airplane.

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Petroglyphist displays his artwork on the prairie

The Kenmare area’s newest and most enduring work of art may not be viewed by most of the local residents. That realization doesn’t bother petroglyphist Kevin Sudeith, an artist who carves images in stone.

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Local cemetery expert has recorded names and dates of 68,000 graves

Herb Schwede’s interest in cemeteries started a few years ago when he and his sister June Myers researched their own family tree. “Now, we have information back to the 1850s on where our family came from in Germany,” he said, “but the Aurelia Cemetery up here, that’s what I started out with.” More than 68,000 graves later, recorded in both his own computer files and at the Find A Grave website at www.findagrave.com, Schwede could be considered somewhat of an expert on the cemeteries of northwestern North Dakota.

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Hartland Wind Farm now has 350 landowners signed for 128,000 acres

Nearly 128,000 acres owned by some 350 landowners are signed with Hartland Wind Farm as plans continue for the nation’s largest wind farm, but residents of Ward, Burke and Mountrail counties are not seeing a great deal of activity right now. “We’ve been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work,” said Craig Swenson, a principal with Hartland Wind Farm.

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