A new store offering women's apparel and accessories will open its doors next week. Style UNCorked Boutique will celebrate its grand opening on Oct. 5 and 6. The store is located at 125 Main Street Suite C in the Renaissance on Main building. Style Uncorked is locally owned. Give them a call at (701) 774-6576.

 

Williston voters will go to the polls on Oct. 10 to consider continuing the one percent retail sales and use tax until  June 30, 2030. The election will be held at the Williston Area Recreation Center from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. Absentee ballots can be obtained at the Williams County Auditor's Office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Seventy-five percent of the proceeds from the sales tax is dedicated to property tax relief through debt reduction and infrastructure improvements and 25% assists economic development projects. City Special Election Information

 

 

The Williston elementary classroom (grades K-4) with the most clean up volunteers on Oct. 14 will win a pizza party with Williston Mayor Howard Klug! Entry forms will be sent home with students soon.

The City of Williston is gearing up for its annual fall clean up. The "I Will Keep Williston Clean. Will You?" campaign will be held on Saturday, Oct. 14, from 8:30-1 p.m. at Davidson Park. Williston sponsors two cleanups per year to help keep the community looking neat and tidy. The first cleanup is held in the spring prior to Band Day while the other one is held in the fall. Williston Public Works and its partners make the cleanup pretty easy for anyone who would like to help spruce up their community. Read More

	Lynn Helms, director of the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, talks about advancements in technology that are in the Bakken oil patch during the North Dakota Petroleum Council's annual meeting in Grand Forks. Joshua Komer / Grand Forks Herald

North Dakota's governor wants the state to produce 2 million barrels a day, but lower taxes on oil and better access to markets in the South mean the competition for drillers is tight, industry experts and state regulators said Tuesday, Sept. 26 in Grand Forks. "We need, as problem-solvers, to figure out how we are going to convince capital back to the Bakken," Lynn Helms, director of the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources. "There are still somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 wells to drill (in North Dakota), and we need to attract capital back into the Bakken to improve the recovery. A lot of that is going to be selling how we do technology in North Dakota." Read More

A new post office opened its doors at 1204 4th Ave. NE in Watford City Sept. 25. The new facility replaces the former building in downtown. McKenzie County Farmer

The problems associated with lack of mail handling space, inadequate parking and not enough customer service counters at Watford City Post Office's downtown location are now a thing of the past.  On Monday morning, Sept. 25, the Watford City Post Office opened in its new location, north of the Watford City Airport, at 1204 4th Ave. NE.  The new facility is more than double the size of the previous building, providing ample parking as well as handicap access to complement the two retail counters and nearly 3,000 postal boxes. For the full story, subscribe to the McKenzie County Farmer

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07/16-18              Bakken Conference and Expo

The Summer 2018 event will be held at the Rough Rider Center in Watford City.