Robert Asp News Today

City plans to soon award bids for a number of road construction projects after holding public hearings on the projects.

This week in history in Douglas County.

Patrick Mathews Halmrast is a composer and a sound artist from Moorhead, Minnesota. His father, Lynn, had been a crew member on the Hjemkomst — the modern re-creation of a Viking ship that sailed to Norway. And, as it turns out, the crew had taken along an audio recorder. Patrick used these tapes to create a documentary, audio art piece, and family memoir.

It’s practically compulsory for tourists to pose for a photo while feeding a fake leg into the woodchipper in Fargo.

It’s practically compulsory for tourists to pose for a photo while feeding a fake leg into the woodchipper in Fargo.

It started with a classroom writing exercise. It ended with the perfect piece of Pizza.

Candidate views vary on issues ranging from school curriculum to student lunch debt.

Bygones is researched and written by David Ouse, retired reference librarian from the Duluth Public Library. He can be contacted at djouse49@gmail.com.

40 years ago this summer, Robert Asp's Hjemkomst ship journeyed to Norway and into the history books.

The ship exhibit now features new panels explaining the history of the ship and voyage, a new rotating exhibit of rarely seen artifacts from the trans-Atlantic journey, a Nordic color scheme and technological improvements.