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December 21, 2015

Commission OKs 2016 schedule

The Washburn City Commission looked once again at going from one to two monthly meetings when they met on Dec. 16 at City Hall, before approving a final 2016 schedule.

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December 17, 2015

Letting out its seams

After over a decade, Bobbie Barnhardt is finally seeing her dreams come to life as her quilting business looks to expand into a space being vacated at the end of the year, opening up room for more machines and more possibilities.

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December 17, 2015

The training is in the bin

It’s one of the most dangerous aspects of farming and for emergency personnel – a person becoming trapped in a grain bin.

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December 8, 2015

County limiting spending

McLean County is tightening its belt the last month of the year, approving very few new expenditures that haven’t already been approved with the current year’s budget.

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McLean County State’s Attorney Ladd Erickson presented the first reading of a new county hiring policy in an effort to give department heads more input into who is being hired.

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December 2, 2015

Weight room open to public

When Kristi Wachendorf moved from Bismarck to Washburn, she realized a big part of her life was missing - a gym.

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Washburn’s Marvin Neumiller just likes to help out the McLean County Fair Board.

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"A store has their SonyPlayStation4 marked down 5 percent from its original price of $349.99.

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November 23, 2015

Standing behind coal

Hundreds of concerned business-owners, government officials, and North Dakota residents crammed into the Bavendick Stateroom at Bismarck State College’s National Energy Center of Excellence on Nov. 16 for a meeting hosted by the North Dakota Department of Health to address new EPA emission regulations.

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As part of the poverty chapter of their economics class, 16 Wilton students stepped outside of their school and worked both to learn about the less fortunate, and to help them.

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