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4/8/2007: A massive power outage resulting from vandalism was reported on this day in 1948.

4/10/2007: Richard Sykes was not a humble man…and this English gentleman was proud of his roots. As a partner in a group of investors, in the early 1880s Sykes purchased 41,000 acres of Northern Pacific Railway land for a dollar an acre.

4/11/2007: The Dokken Post Office burned to the ground on this day in 1907. Since the post office was actually located in the residence of the Hatton family, one could also say that the farmhouse of Sherman Hatton burned on this day in 1907. The Hatton family had been in charge of postal service on the Dokken route since June 22, 1905; the fire forced the relocation of the post office to the home of Ole N. Dokken, the man for whom the post office was named.

4/14/2007: Hydrologists identify five major factors that can determine spring flood conditions: a wet fall, an unusually cold winter, heavy snow accumulation, a cool spring followed by a warming trend, and heavy rainfall during the thaw. I

4/12/2007: Western history has a way of making legends out of men or animals, and sometimes it is difficult to separate the facts from the legend. On this day in 1936 one such legend was roaming the bad lands of the Killdeer Mountains as the head of a herd of range cattle. Known as Traveling Jenny, she was the Monarch of the Plains and belonged to the William Connolly spread near Killdeer, although he had never been able to rope or pen her.

4/15/2007: Part 2 of our 9 part series on the Red River flood of 1997 is a poem by Jane Kurtz titled Winter of 1997:

4/21/2007: The National Weather Service had a long standing forecast that the Red River in Grand Forks would crest at 49 feet during the flood of 1997, and the service didn’t officially revise its forecast until the river actually reached 49 feet on April 16th.

4/20/2007: Don Gonyea is currently the White House correspondent for National Public Radio. You hear his regular reports on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. In April of 1997 he was an NPR correspondent stationed in Detroit. But he also covered other major stories occurring in the Midwest, like the Red River flood of that year.

4/22/2007: When Air Force One touched down at the Grand Forks Air Force Base on this date, April, 22nd, 1997, the flooded Red River was still riding at its record crest of 54.11 feet.

4/23/2007: An inventor from Grand Forks was celebrating the success of his latest invention on this day in 1916.