Married couples with joint incomes of up to $1.5 million from their farm operation could still qualify for crop subsidies under a five-year, $300 billion farm bill compromise that would boost the Agriculture Department’s food and farm programs.
Local farm leaders are looking at the conference committee agreement on the farm bill as positive for production agriculture but are concerned whether it will become law.
Imation Corp. plans to close its floppy diskette plant in Wahpeton by the end of the year, a few months sooner than expected, after a group of former employees have taken over some of its contracts.
Imation, based in Oakdale, Minn., announced one year ago that it would phase out the plant’s near 390 jobs by mid-2009, as part of a company-wide re-structuring.
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Third-grade students at Roosevelt Elementary School in Jamestown react Thursday as Tia Walker swings a plastic bat and breaks open a pinata filled with candy. The students have been studying a unit on Mexico.
North Dakota and TransCanada Keystone Pipeline officials didn’t study alternative routes for the crude oil pipeline scheduled to be built through eastern North Dakota this summer, opponents of the line’s current route told a state district judge Thursday.
Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in what could mark a significant blow to the Sunni insurgency in its last urban stronghold.
Two stories on the news wires April 21 worked together to draw a compelling picture of the state of energy consumption and awareness here on good old Planet Earth.
There’s a lot of enthusiasm about the huge oil deposits under western North Dakota, with oil yields forecasted to produce 2 to 4 billion barrels of oil.
What is disturbing is the amount of water that oil companies want to use to produce this oil.
In North Dakota, we enjoy the friendliness of the people and the fact that, if we don’t know someone, we probably know someone who does.
North Dakota has the highest percentage of residents over the age of 85 in the United States. That number is expected to increase substantially in the next couple of decades.
I recently read a column by Sen. Byron Dorgan about his efforts to pass a new, strengthened G.I. Bill. I’m writing this letter to commend him for it.
As a veteran of the Vietnam War, I can attest to the benefits of having a G.I. Bill first hand. After returning home from overseas, I utilized the G.I. Bill to attend the North Dakota State College of Science for training in business management. I learned many skills at NDSCS, which I use as a state legislator to this day.
Time magazine has published another one of those silly and meaningless lists some in the media occasionally and irritatingly compile to validate their self-importance. It is the 100 “most influential people in the world.” I didn’t make it, but then I don’t make other lists like People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” which must be an oversight.
Time never tells us what qualifies these people as influential. Dictionary.com defines influence as, “the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others.”
Mayville State used the long ball to take the lead.
Jamestown College used small ball to get the win.
The No. 5-seeded Jimmies remained unbeaten in the NAIA Region III baseball tournament on Thursday, knocking off the No. 3-seeded Comets on their home field. Jamestown College battled back from an early two-run deficit to win 3-2 in 10 innings.
Blake Harris led the Jamestown High School boys’ golf team with an 86 at the Bismarck St. Mary’s Invitational on Thursday at Hawktree Golf Course.
Miles Traiser was one shot back at 87 as Jamestown finished ninth among West Region teams.
Bismarck won the team title with a 300, 13 strokes better than runner-up Minot.
With the location of their West Region doubleheader switched from Bismarck to Jamestown due to rain in the central part of the state, Jamestown High School and St. Mary’s split Thursday.
With an overcast sky creating cool May playing conditions at Jack Brown Stadium, the Saints outlasted the Blue Jays 2-1 in the opener, a game that lasted 12 innings. Jamestown then used a big second inning en route to a 10-2 win in the late game.
Juan Uribe’s homer put the White Sox ahead and his old-fashioned hard slide that busted up a double play had his teammates and manager buzzing.
Jermaine Dye homered for the third straight game and Uribe added a two-run drive in the fifth to help struggling Chicago beat the Minnesota Twins 6-2 on Thursday.
Cinco de Mayo My! Try South-of-the-Border Grilled Chicken Kabobs and Rice Sue Doeden
I was 14 years old. I had saved earnings from babysitting jobs for several months and finally had enough to purchase a plane ticket to California. The family who lived in the house behind us had moved to Fullerton and they invited me to spend part of my summer vacation with them.
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