The Minot Chamber Chorale will present its spring concert, “Songs of the Heartland,” on Sunday at 3 p.m. in Our Redeemer’s Church in Minot. This is the
11/10/2006: They were men who could fly a hundred feet across the plains of North Dakota, and all they needed to do so was a steep slope, a proper landing place, and their two wooden skis. Through the 1920s and 30s, these ski jumpers were North Dakota heroes, and many of them helped North Dakota, a state with no mountains and few hills, turn into a ski jumping center.
The intermodal “ramp” in Minot, N.D., now moving containers with agricultural specialty crops offers a new effort with BNSF-supported ownership to get something off the ground that had sputtered in an earlier attempt.