Ingrid Harbo

1 day ago | inforum.com | Ingrid Harbo

MOORHEAD — Tobias Johansen’s face lit up with a smile as he took his new bike for a test ride around the parking lot of Salem Evangelical Free Church. Tobias, a student at Ellen Hopkins Elementary, was just one kid who picked out a refurbished bike at a bike distribution event hosted by Boaz Bike Ministry. The group held the Thursday evening, June 5 event for Ellen Hopkins Elementary students. “It’s so smooth,” Tobias said as he zipped around on the bike.

1 day ago | inforum.com | Ingrid Harbo

MOORHEAD — Farmers market season has started in the metro, with the first vendors setting up shop in Moorhead’s Viking Ship Park. On Tuesday afternoon, June 2, the opening day of the market, around a dozen booths lined the edge of the parking lot outside the Hjemkomst Center. Vendors sold wares like soaps, wooden signs, spice mixes, baked goods and produce. Families with children bounced from booth to booth, while a musician sang on a small stage.

4 days ago | inforum.com | Ingrid Harbo

MOORHEAD — Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada has returned to the Fargo-Moorhead area, bringing a low-hanging haze and the smell of burnt plastic in the air. After a smoky weekend, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued an air quality alert through Wednesday, June 4, for the whole state. Parts of northwest Minnesota, including Moorhead, will see very unhealthy air quality index scores, while the northern Red River Valley will see hazardous air conditions.

1 week ago | inforum.com | Ingrid Harbo

FARGO — The green ash tree in Keith Corliss’ backyard is hard to miss. At 75 feet tall, the tree towers above the house, its sprawling limbs lending shade to a tight backyard. Corliss, a birder, hangs bird feeders from the tree. “Without it, it would be a totally different yard,” he said. The tree is so big, in fact, that it was named the second-largest green ash tree in North Dakota by the state Forest Service.

1 week ago | inforum.com | Ingrid Harbo

GLYNDON, Minn. — The road to a possible casino near Moorhead will be long, according to White Earth Nation Tribal Chairman Michael Fairbanks. At the Glyndon City Council meeting on Wednesday evening, May 28, Fairbanks told council members that moving forward with the project will be a lengthy process, as the tribe gets the land approved for off-reservation tribal gaming, works with consultants on a plan and garners support from surrounding communities.