Beulah Beacon News
Old KRCC building sold
With energy expenses alone costing more than $55,000 per year, the Knife River Care Center was motivated to find a buyer for its former facility on Central Avenue. This week it found one.
Could natural gas issue be back?
Piping natural gas into Beulah and Hazen could be back on the table again.
Crops taken off and taking off
The current stretch of hot weather may have most people in Beulah huddling by their air conditioners, but it has proven a double blessing for farmers. Dry weather has allowed the harvest of small grains to move fairly quickly while the heat has pushed row crops to maturity.
School days are almost here again
The countdown is beginning for the youth of Beulah as the lazy, hazy days of summer wind to an end. The stores are filled with back-to-school shoppers as the soon to be students are decked out with a new wardrobe, pencils, notebooks and all the implements they will need to face the challenges of a new grade.
Coal Counties will move away from paid lobbying
In action directed at avoiding a “gray area” in North Dakota law, the government entities that comprise what is known as Coal Conversion Counties, are looking at a joint powers agreement. That agreement, now before the Beulah City Council, would change the way the coal counties address the State Legislature.
Beulah will be going crazy
The Beulah Chamber of Commerce will be going crazy Aug. 5 and 6 as Crazy Days makes its return as a two-day event.
Phillips to step down
Beulah City Planner John Phillips has submitted his resignation to the Beulah City Council effective Dec. 31. Phillips will be joining Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota as a real estate development specialist.
Halliday’s future undecided
The Halliday School Board tabled a recommendation from Superintendent Dale Gilje to start preparing to shut down the school after the 2010-11 school year.
Throughout its 104 years on the North Dakota prairie, Casey and Julie Voigt’s home has withstood everything that Mother Nature could throw at it.
Twin Buttes School bit closer to reality
A story that winds through many years and from the prairie vistas of the Twin Buttes community to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., came one step closer to an ending on Friday.
