Towner News

The rise in flu cases may be increasing the number of sick days being used, but it's also decreasing the number of blood donations throughout the state.

Flu shot clinics continue this week in the region with local Health Units offering free vaccinations against H1N1 flu.

Visitors to Artfest came to watch art being made, talk to artists and just enjoy the view and get inspired.

EASTBOURNE Borough council chief executive Martin Ray steps down from his post today .

Arne Johannes Mahle, 83, Minot, and formerly of Denbigh, died Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, in a Minot nursing home.

Rogene Margaret Aadnes, 86, of Towner, died at Heart of America Medical Center in Rugby on Sept.

The bridge over the Mouse River a4 Towner is being replaced, and traffic has just begun using the new structure.

North Dakota's Towner State Nursery has a new manager for the first time in nearly 40 years.

It's a luxury we sometimes take for granted, but for thousands of children and adults in Afghanistan, the luxury of shoes is one they seldom enjoy.

Several area schools have seen increases in enrollment during the first days of classes, said area administrators.

BISMARCK, N.D. - Enough natural gas to heat every home in North Dakota through at least two brutal winters was burned off as an unmarketable byproduct in the state's oil patch in 2008, records obtained by The Associated Press show.

Candy Pellman of McClusky is among 131 volunteer weather observers who keep tabs on the weather for the Bismarck office of the National Weather Service.

The summer travel season is well under way and a few road construction projects in our area are still causing a little extra congestion on area roadways.

Its not very often in North Dakota that you see new construction on Main Street in a small town.

Virginia Margaret Anderson, the daughter of Peter J. and Anna Petron was born June 10, 1923, in a Great Northern Railroad section house in Stanley, North Dakota, where she grew up in a Polish railroad family of seven.

Heading into the 2009 North Dakota High School Rodeo State Finals, Dillon Wickum needed a solid performance to have any shot of earning a spot at the National Finals "I went in tied for fifth and sixth, so I knew I had to get something done down there," Wickum said of the state finals.

The Towner area is famous for overland flooding every spring. Sometimes there is more water than necessary and the increased flows put extra stress on area bridges.

TOWNER Alyce Elenora Kramer, 89, died Sunday, May 10, 2009, at the New Life Living Center in Presho, S.D. She was born April 6, 1920, the second child of Andrew and Elizabeth Eikesdahl at their home in Blaisdell, N.D. Alyce was baptized at Blaisdell on June 6, 1920.

Warm sunshine signals a change of seasons in North Dakota. White snow banks are being replaced by orange traffic cones.

The snow is finally gone, and the floodwaters have largely receded from the area, with the exception of areas such as Towner, Bantry and Willow City.