January 15, 2014

 
In This Issue
North Dakota Named Best-Run State Two Years in a Row...
2013:
Dickinson real estate market deals with major change...
North Dakota oil production up 3 percent...
Oil Patch drives baby boom...
Southwest Water finally coming to Rhame...
Transportation Dept. appoints liaison to work in western ND...
ND sets record population...
Men at work:
Fundraisers net $26K
Dickinson 2012...
Best Solitary Trail:
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North Dakota Named Best-Run State Two Years in a Row

An annual survey conducted by 24/7 Wall St. ranks North Dakota the best-run state in the nation for the second consecutive year.

 

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2013: A year of growth, changes

 

Southwest North Dakota continues to grow and change, and 2013 was not so much the exception than it was the rule.

 

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Dickinson real estate market deals with major change

 

In the next year Dickinson is expected to make several dramatic changes.

 

North Dakota oil production up 3 percent

North Dakota produced 973,045 barrels of oil per day in November, a nearly 3 percent increase and another all-time high, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the Department of Mineral Resources.
Oil Patch drives baby boom:  North Dakota records 10,000 births for first time in almost 25 years

 

North Dakota passed a milestone recently by exceeding 10,000 births, a benchmark that last was reached almost 25 years ago.

 

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Southwest Water finally coming to Rhame

 

The citizens of Rhame will likely get Southwest Water Authority service after all. 

 

Transportation Dept. appoints liaison to work in western N.D. 


Gov. Jack Dalrymple and North Dakota Department of Transportation Director Grant Levi have appointed a liaison for western North Dakota transportation development.

ND sets record population of 723,393, up 22,048 from last year 

 

An influx of new residents lured in part by the state's booming energy industry catapulted North Dakota to a record high population of 723,393 on July 1, making it the fastest-growing state in the nation, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Monday.

 

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Men at work: Male-dominated workforce shapes ND demographics

North Dakota is steadily becoming a more male state.
                                

Fundraisers net $26K for Killdeer Cowboy Sports Complex in callathon

 

Students and families secured $26,000 in pledges over three hours of phone calls during a callathon Dec. 30 for fundraising for the Killdeer Cowboy Sports Complex, fundraising chair Suzi Tuhy said.

 

The fundraising committee is within $500,000 of its goal, and has so far raised $146,000 from individual donors and larger company donations, and had $650,000 committed from the school board.

"Unless we get that $500,000 form oil companies, businesses and individuals, we can't get started," Tuhy said.

The project would replace the field grass with turf, upgrade lighting, update concessions and stands, and more.

 

Source:   The Dickinson Press


Dickinson's 2012 building record to stand

Dickinson's record $389 million new construction permit value record set in 2012 stands another year.

Best Solitary Trail: Maah Daah Hey Trail (Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota)

 

Trail running meets adventure travel on the Maah Daah Hey (rough translation from the Mandan Indian language: "be here a long time"), a 97-mile singletrack passage through the North Dakota badlands, mostly in the two sections of Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Little Missouri National Grasslands. As the trail snakes over rolling hills, rugged buttes, and treeless prairies, a highlight reel of Old West clichés unfolds: coyotes, prairie dogs, wild mustangs, bighorn sheep, and endless horizons.  

 

Source:  Men's Journal