Study to be conducted on feasibility of building Polk County, N.D.-area...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  June 25, 2004 ;     537 words ......November. For Polk County residents, the...shortcut to Grand Forks and to Interstate...just south of Grand Forks, to Polk County Road 58 south...Merrifield Road. Polk County has passed the...the city of Grand Forks will soon pass...

Polk County, Minn., farmer plans to expand his hog operation.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 4, 2004 ;     311 words ...By Ann Bailey, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Knight...CROOKSTON, Minn. -- Polk County farmer Richard Balstad...To see more of the Grand Forks Herald, or to subscribe...grandforks.com. (c) 2004, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Distributed...

Best Products Departure Not a Long-Term Blow to Grand Forks, N.D.,...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 8, 1996 ;     375 words ...GRAND FORKS, N.D.--Oct. 8--Monday's announcement that Best Products in Grand Forks will close its doors does not signal gloom and doom for the Grand Forks economy, two local economic experts said. Lowell Goodman, an economic geography professor...

Polk County, Minn., Sheriff's Office Investigates Claims against Grain...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  January 29, 2004 ;     306 words ......Rona K. Johnson, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Knight...News Jan. 29--The Polk County Sheriff's Office...complaints against East Grand Forks grain buyer Daniel...right now, said Polk County Sheriff Mark LeTexier...working with the Polk County state's ...

Money Now Will Flow into Red River Valley as Communities...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  April 28, 1997 ;     700+ words ......beginning to recede, but don't despair, Grand Forks: A flood of money is on its way...disasters say the money is a chance for Grand Forks to come back stronger than ever. I can tell the residents of Grand Forks that they will recover, said Mayor...

Grand Forks, N.D., Human Service Agencies Move Under One Roof.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 3, 2002 ;     364 words ...By Ryan Bakken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Knight...Appliance in East Grand Forks has been turned into...offices for several Polk County departments and several...satellite offices in East Grand Forks for a long, long...from fund surpluses, Polk County ...

A flood of numbers; It's been two months since the Red River changed the...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  June 27, 1997 ;     700+ words ......billion - Estimated total cost of the flood in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks. 14 - Number of disasters that Mike Montgomery...Agency (FEMA). 1 - Rank that Montgomery gives the Grand Forks flood, in the percentage of people displaced...

Longtime Grand Forks, N.D., Orthodontist to Retire.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  September 9, 2003 ;     700+ words ...By Rona K. Johnson, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 9--GRAND FORKS, N.D.--A lot of smiles throughout the...today thanks to Jim Gjerset, a longtime Grand Forks orthodontist who is retiring in October...

THE GRAND FORKS FLOODS - ONE YEAR LATER

Regulatory Intelligence Data;  April 20, 1998 ;     321 words ......approved 5,632 loans totaling $155,058,500 in Grand Forks and 2,658 loans totaling $68,134,000 in East Grand Forks. State of North Dakota issued 6,390 Individual...Family grants totaling $10,263,969 in Grand Forks and 1,050 grants totaling $4,076,619 in East Grand ...

Grand Forks, N.D., Leaders Play Host to Delegation from Sarpsborg, Norway.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 19, 2003 ;     501 words ...By David Dodds, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune...city of 50,000 people might become Grand Forks' newest sister. The delegation, which...Engsmyr, mayor of Sarpsborg, arrived in Grand Forks on Sunday. Their arrival followed...

Fears rise with the river; Nervous residents of Grand Forks are hoping the...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ......much less menacing now than it was then. Grand Forks residents say they know that. But they...University of North Dakota employee who fled Grand Forks two years ago with her son and daughter...is 14 to 17 feet deep, said Ken Vien, Grand Forks public works director and city ...

Grand Forks mayor says job was easier when city was under water

AP Online;  April 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Associated Press Writer AP Online 04-15-1998 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) _ The message spray-painted...anger,'' says Owens, whose first year as Grand Forks mayor was capped by the city's worst...floodwaters and fire roared through Grand Forks a year ago, many turned to their mayor...

Grand Forks, N.D., Opts Not to Share Transportation Grant.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ...By Tu-Uyen Tran and Jaime DeLage, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 13--East Grand Forks Mayor Lynn Stauss went on the offensive last week, arguing that Grand Forks should share a $1 million federal transportation...

After Grand Forks decision, `I don't know anyone who isn't smiling'.(NEWS)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  August 27, 2005 ;     411 words ......spearheaded the campaign to save the Grand Forks Air Base were celebrating on Friday...which was to discontinue tankers at the Grand Forks base after 2009. Rejecting another Pentagon...had originally planned to close the Grand Forks base but that it later decided to bring...

Economist Documents Stagnant Labor Force in Grand Forks, N.D.(Knight...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 1, 2001 ;     625 words ...Jan. 31--The problem in Grand Forks is that people aren't having enough...underlines a key problem he sees facing Grand Forks: a stagnant population and, as...flat-lined nonfarm employment in Grand Forks with a steady 5 percent increase...