10 stories you might have missed over the weekend
A look at stories in the Grand Forks Herald and on grandforksherald.com that you might have missed from over the weekend. 9:28 am, Mar. 1, 2021 ×
UND s Otis Weah returned to action for the first time since 2018 on Saturday and gained 91 yards in a victory over Southern Illinois. Forum News Service file photoForum News Service
Herald Sports Editor Wayne Nelson writes that UND is beginning to forge its own identity in its new home the powerful Missouri Valley Football Conference. Saturday, the Fighting Hawks upended No. 3 South Dakota State 28-17 in one of the program s biggest wins in the Alerus Center.
Hamzat Koriko hopes to finish translating Catharsis by March 10:38 am, Feb. 27, 2021 ×
Grand Forks-based artist Hamzat Koriko, who is the executive and artistic director of the African Arts Arena. Submitted photo.
A Grand Forks artist and academic is set to make the first-ever English translation of a play about the African condition.
Hamzat Koriko, the executive director of the African Arts Arena, is in line for a $12,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which he’ll use to translate Catharsis, a play by Gustave Akakpo in which Mother Africa herself questions other abstract characters about life on the continent, from French to English.