Month: July 2024

In the olden days, when I was a young reporter for The Dickinson Press, one of the assignments for the newsroom staff was to check with the Police Department every day to see if there was any news. We’d wander across the street to the station and take a look at the daily log. Once … Continue reading Missing Girlfriends, Drunks and Locked Doors

Sometime later this month the State Historical Society of North Dakota is going to officially announce the approval of a new historic neighborhood in Bismarck. I’m pretty excited about it, because I live in it.             Two years ago last week, the Highland Acres neighborhood in west Bismarck was named to the National Register of … Continue reading YAY! I Live In A National Historic District!

This is a story of a tragic, ironic, almost unbelievable, twist of fate. Some of you remember I wrote a series of stories, beginning in July of 2017, about an illegal bridge across the Little Missouri State Scenic River west of the Killdeer Mountains, built by a fellow named Wylie Bice, a wealthy rancher with … Continue reading The Bridge That Should’ve Come Down