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On Tuesday, voters in Fargo will decide how they want their government — with wards, or continue as an at-large City Commission.
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The Great Plains Food Bank says it is serving a record number of people across North Dakota as families contend with rising costs for food, fuel, housing and child care.
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  • Railroad tracks finally began creeping west from Duluth, Minnesota, in 1870. On a cold New Year’s Eve in 1871, the railroad finally reached the Red River at Moorhead. Construction on a railroad bridge across the river continued through the winter. The residents of Fargo eagerly watched a locomotive sitting on the tracks, waiting for the completion of the bridge. On June 6, 1872, a group of women boarded a ferry and crossed the river. They decorated the engine with flowers and were then invited to climb aboard the train. The locomotive got up steam, the whistle blew, and the train moved majestically across the bridge and into Dakota Territory.
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A 7-year-old girl was injured riding her new bike. A stranger came to her rescue and gifted her an origami crane with a hidden message she would only discover years later.
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On an ordinary summer afternoon, one could expect to see a line of cars form at the entrance of the Sky-Vu Drive-In theater and spill out onto the state road just beside it. As people in each vehicle drove by the marquee to pay admission, they’d park in front of the screen as the sun set and the film began.
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