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    April 8, 2016
    Police Blotter: More than $1,600 worth of items stolen from Hertz Equipment
    A Hertz Equipment employee reported theft of items with an estimated cost of $1,600. Items reported stolen included a torch, an oxygen tank,...
    News/crime and courtsApril 8, 2016 - 11:17pm
    February 4, 2016
    Shown left to right, Scott Decker, City Commissioner and veteran, Jay Elkin, Stark County Commissioner, Pamela Bumgardner, Best Friends Mentoring Prohram development coordinator, and North Dakota State Rep. Alan Fehr. Each person is a member of the Patterson Lake Task Force which met Wednesday to discuss improvement plans for the lake. (Press Photo by Andrew Haffner)
    A place by the lake: Task force driven by veterans’ groups hopes to establish a new community space on Patterson Lake
    Patterson Lake could have a new waterside attraction in store for its future. An early effort being driven by a task force, including a coalition...
    News/localFebruary 4, 2016 - 7:44pm
    January 2, 2016
    Local barber Johnney Elsbernd trims up one of the final heads of his 45-year career during his last day of work Thursday at Queen City Barbers before retirement. (Press Photo by Andrew Wernette)
    Putting away the razor: Local barber retires after 45 years of serving Dickinson
    If the new year is a time for new beginnings, then barber Johnney Elsbernd has timed his retirement just right. Johnney cut his final locks of...
    News/localJanuary 2, 2016 - 10:18pm
    January 1, 2016
    Tot’s Landing Childcare workers Jade Cianna, Shauna Pengelley and Stacia Whittlesey sit with children they oversee before a mound of gifts they and parents associated with the business purchased to give to less-fortunate families for Christmas. (Submitted by Shauna Pengelley)
    Local daycare comes together to help give others a Christmas
    The giving spirit of Christmas can pervade anywhere. In Shauna Pengelley’s case, that even includes a daycare center. Pengelley runs Tot’s...
    News/localJanuary 1, 2016 - 10:35pm
    October 10, 2015
    Volunteers work in an assembly line to package nutrient-rich foodstuff for starving children worldwide Saturday afternoon at the High Plains Cultural Center in Killdeer. The event was put on by Feed My Starving Children, a Minnesota-based nonprofit. (Press Photo by Andrew Wernette)
    Volunteers pack meals to feed starving children around the world
    KILLDEER -- As he scanned the assembly lines of volunteers loading and sealing bags of foodstuffs from above in the High Plains Cultural Center,...
    News/localOctober 10, 2015 - 11:40pm
    July 31, 2015
    Dickinson Police Detectives Brandon Stockie, left, and Kylan Klauzer scan the area at Alive @ 5 on Thursday. (Press Photo by Andrew Wernette)
    Bike Patrol allows DPD to interact with community
    As Sgt. Detective Kylan Klauzer of the Dickinson Police Department surveyed the jam-packed crowd at the Alive @ 5 FireHouse concert on Thursday,...
    News/localJuly 31, 2015 - 10:59pm
    July 28, 2015
    Bandshell concerts moved to today
    The concert by The Queen City Band has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at Phil Patterson Memorial Bandshell at Youngs Park. The free community concert features concessions with tacos in a bag and grilled burgers and hot dogs for sale by The Relay for Life team. Youngs Park...
    News/localJuly 28, 2015 - 11:37pm
    February 12, 2015
    Sherryl Lefor displays a few donated books at her home on Wednesday. She is spearheading a book drive for the Trinity High School library.
    Book drive underway: Public invited to donate books for Trinity students
    Trinity High School librarian Rachel Ebach peered into the THS library with a flashlight after the March 3 fire that left the building unusable. “Everything...
    lifestyles/featuresFebruary 12, 2015 - 2:25pm
    July 28, 2014
    Hull: What will your legacy be?
    I was going to write on an entirely different subject until I saw the Survey posted on the front page of The Press recently. The questions and answers posted were quite illuminating and inspired me to share some insights, which I have learned just recently. I don’t profess to have...
    July 28, 2014 - 11:18am
    July 26, 2014
    Bonnie Warm, of Dickinson, who has become known as “The Bread Lady,” uses the two grain mills on the counter to grind organic grain into flour she uses for the 90-plus loaves of bread she makes weekly.
    A slice of Warm bread: Dickinson woman becomes known for her homemade breads
    DICKINSON -- Bonnie Warm, who years ago left a health-club career to stay home and raise children, often needs bread. Really often. So...
    News/localJuly 26, 2014 - 8:41pm
    July 22, 2014
    Outdoor movie night at BAC canceled
    Outdoor Family Movie Night at the Biesiot Activities Center, scheduled for today, has been canceled because of equipment problems. Ben Shroyer, events and conference coordinator for the BAC, said the showing of “Free Birds” will be rescheduled within 30 days.
    lifestylesJuly 22, 2014 - 11:58am
    July 21, 2014
    Hull: What makes a community?
    What would happen if you turned and stopped, looked into the person’s face and waited for an answer to your question? Unfortunately, they never stopped walking either as they politely responded. Hey, I am just as guilty of this behavior as everyone else, but my need for community...
    July 21, 2014 - 11:26pm
    July 20, 2014
    Brian Belden, shown Thursday at the Dickinson Museum Center, moved to Dickinson, or “God’s Country,” as he calls it, after a 40-year career teaching history in Austin, Texas. He now spends four hours a day of that retire. (Press Photo by Virginia Grantier)
    Fulfilling a North Dakota dream: Longtime Texas history teacher moves ‘home’ to Dickinson
    Dickinson may not smell as great as it once did. In years past, Brian Belden said, before intense urban and oil-industry growth, there was a...
    lifestyles/featuresJuly 20, 2014 - 12:00am
    ‘Heavenly Babies’ program helps families grieve, remember
    Jane Davis has spent most of her 30-year nursing career on the labor and delivery floor at CHI St. Joseph’s Health in Dickinson. Well-known as an experienced and caring nurse, Davis estimates she has attended at least 2,000 births. However, she is also known to a number of families...
    lifestyles/featuresJuly 20, 2014 - 12:00am
    July 18, 2014
    Downtown Dickinson art classes aimed at adults
    A former Dickinson elementary school art teacher is partnering with a local art shop to organize a series of weekly summer art classes for all skill levels. Celebrations ‘n’ Crafts first contacted Rebecca Miller, who said she has had requests “for years now” from people...
    lifestylesJuly 18, 2014 - 6:52pm
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