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3/31/2007: The Northern Pacific Railroad townsite of Wyndmere was established in1883.

4/1/2007: The village of Medina, North Dakota incorporated in 1906 and it became a city on this date, April 1st, 1946.

3/21/2007: Ice blocking the Heart River near Mandan caused extensive flooding to the area on this day in 1948. The flooding eventually overtook the southern half of the city and cut-off transportation between Bismarck and Mandan. Although the flooding was due primarily to the build up and breaking of ice floes on the river, the majority of the damage was confined to the lowland area at which the river flowed into the Missouri.

4/3/2007: The risks of being a grocer were made evident on this day in 1934 when the Fargo Forum ran a story on the bizarre hazards facing Red Owl grocer E. D. Branigan. Branigan, manager of the Fargo Red Owl store, had been a grocery clerk for decades and was conditioned for the experience that he encountered several days earlier involving tropical fruit and fauna.

4/5/2007: John Stupard was a ranch hand in the lower knife area of Mountrail County. But John, the Canadian transient, was a very uneasy ranch hand. Europe was entangled in the Great War and John did not want to be involved. The United States had remained neutral through much of it, but this day in 1917 would be the last day of official peace in America, and John Stupard would soon have more reason to be worried.

4/7/2007: The Fargo Forum reported on a strange suicide case baffling Fessenden authorities on this day in 1924.

4/17/2007: Recent spring rain and an early April snowstorm got people in the Red River Valley a little nervous about flooding…and there has been some minor flooding this spring, but nothing compared to the record-setting flood of 1997.

4/18/2007: Mike Olson, host of “Into the Music” and the Saturday Night blues show on Prairie Public, was living in Grand Forks and working at the UND radio stations 10 years ago, when city residents were in the midst of the flood battle of their lives. On this date, March 18th, 1997, Mike went home after work, and after roller blading around the block with his son, sat down on the back porch of his house. He had heard that a dike in another part of town had been breached, but the flood still didn’t seem like it was threatening his neighborhood…his family.

4/19/2007: The dike in the Lincoln Park area of Grand Forks began to give way, but little did people know at the time, that in just hours the Red River would be flowing through most of the town. In fact, late that night, and into the early morning hours of Saturday the 19th, Mike Jacobs and other Folks at the Grand Forks Herald were still in their downtown building putting out the news.

4/24/2007: This week is National County Government Week; fittingly, the county government of Adams County in southwestern North Dakota was organized on this day in 1907.