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Remembering Martha Johnson
It would have taken more than a 10 inch snow storm to keep the members of Bethel Lutheran Church from honoring the memory of Martha Johnson on Sunday.
Dumping opponents gather in New Town
The oil boom that started in 2006 has brought many things to western North Dakota. It has brought people to towns that were fading away and money into an economy that was barely holding its own.
New Town students organize to combat meth
Sometimes the best way to teach is to have your students do. That is the philosophy that New Town High School teacher Bobbi Larson’s is trying the Tribal Government and Tribal History classes she is teaching this year.
Group calls for Main Street renovation
Several years ago, the Fort Berthold Tribal Business Council authorized an organization to work for the economic development of the North Segment, which includes New Town.
Dakota Plains Pioneer Project to move oil from New Town
Dakota Plains Holdings Inc. is thinking big things are coming for New Town.
Water plant fix high on city agenda
Progress is being made in bringing the New Town Water Plant back to full production.
Hearing your people’s songs
Keith Bear says he grew up as “a kid on Dakota Drive,” with limited prospects and opportunities for the future. Now, decades later, he is an internationally known musician who performed with symphony orchestras around the world, performing music on Native American flutes he makes himself.
Business Expo looks towards future development
Western North Dakota, and especially the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, is awash with oil money that, like the tides, flows into our communities and then flows back out of the state.
Bypass gets public hearing
New Town’s quest to move truck traffic off of Main Street got a step closer Tuesday as the North Dakota Department of Transportation held a public hearing on a truck reliever route that would move traffic north and east of New Town.
Random Acts of Kindness
New Town High School Principal John Gartner told the District School Board that a program to recognize positive behavior in the high school was having positive results.
