Grafton News

UND recently released its 2013 spring semester dean's and president's honorees. Area residents named to the lists are as follows: Dean's list Adams: William Bata, Michael Haukaas, Jocelyn Lee and Breanna Rose.

Golfers anxious to start swinging clubs Water hazards are usually added to the design of a golf course to add beauty and difficulty to the pleasure of the players.

Students who attend schools in the area earned top ratings at the North Dakota State Class B Music Festival held at Minot State University in May. They were among 805 entries involving approximately 1,500 participants who presented vocal and instrumental music solos and ensembles.

Villarreal K's 16, shuts out Red Sox Grafton's Jaime Villarreal struck out 16 in American Legion action Monday, acquiring his first win in a pitcher's duel in Langdon.

Organized in 1902 to support needs of Deaconess Hospital LaBoheme Club, the oldest women's civic organization in Grafton, began with an altruistic purpose - to support the Deaconess Hospital.

Lease option extended on Cobblestone Hotel GRAFTON-Grafton residents will soon have use of a new bike path system on the south side after city council members approved the construction at their Monday meeting.

Emergency services officials are headed to northeastern North Dakota to tell local authorities how to apply for reimbursement for damages from this year's spring flooding.

City leaders are considering whether to make Grand Forks the first North Dakota community to ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Residents experience water in basements after Friday's storm GRAFTON - Water weary residents of Grafton and Walsh County were dealt yet another blow late last week and into the weekend as the second major rain event in the past two weeks hit the area.

Although there was no damage from the tornado that passed over the town of Grafton, North Dakota, the people had rain causing big problems.

Governor Dalrymple surveys damage in effected region GRAFTON - Only a week ago residents of Grafton and those along the Park River were bracing for a potential record flood.

In neighboring Walsh County, t The swelling Park River peaked in the city about midnight at 16.2 feet, just shy of a record.

Type of products, size of facility should be known by fall of 2013 A slaughter plant in northeastern ND is one step closer to reality after a survey of producers/members of the ND Stockmen's Association from Cavalier, Nelson, Pembina, Ramsey and Walsh counties indicated a very strong interest in the addition of a custom processing facility.

Grafton bracing for possible record crest On Monday May 13, the temporary dike closing off a portion of West Fifth Street in Grafton was removed signaling an end to a much anticipated, but relatively uneventful spring flood season.

Valley News Live's Neil Carlson has been at the dam all morning as says it appears the water levels are holding steady.

More than a thousand people have evacuated their homes in northeastern North Dakota as rain-fed floodwaters threaten a dam on the Tongue River.