Willow City News

The final chapter in the story of St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Willow City is about to be written.

UPHAM They came. They toiled. They learned. Many were eventually displaced but who they were and what they did remains forever etched in the history of North Dakota.

Sunday is usually a rest day on the Dreyer farm, but sometimes during harvest, especially this late in September, you can`t mess around.

Welcome to the Iron Horse Saloon in Williow City. The owners of the Iron Horse sold their bar in Medora but kept the name for their new business which is now located in the old Gus`s Place Bar on Main Street in Willow City.

With temps well into the 80`s by 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 12th, Dad was trying to stay cool swathing his canola early.

BOTTINEAU Imagine the energy required to turn 62 lively youngsters, some just out of kindergarten, into the cast required to produce a hilarious junior version of "Cinderella." That magical feat is being accomplished -- in one short week -- by Missoula Children's Theater directors Josh Laird and Danny Beason, under the sponsorship of the Bottineau ...

Virginia Margaret Anderson, the daughter of Peter J. and Anna Petron was born June 10, 1923, in a Great Northern Railroad section house in Stanley, North Dakota, where she grew up in a Polish railroad family of seven.

Azure, a graduating senior at Dunseith High School, plans to attend TMMC for two years before transferring to the University of North Dakota.

The standing water is definitely not the sight Nick Dreyer is used to on his land southwest of Willow City, but at least the birds are happy.

The snow is finally gone, and the floodwaters have largely receded from the area, with the exception of areas such as Towner, Bantry and Willow City.

Here's a sign lots of drivers on rural roads in our part of the state are seeing these days.