Cooler but still well above normal this week

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We’re still in the “lion” part of “March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.”

Snow is likely Thursday and over the weekend with highs consistently in the upper 20s for most of the week.

The National Weather Service says Thursday’s snow will likely accumulate, but mostly across east central and southeast North Dakota. Areas of northwest North Dakota and west-central Minnesota could see some:

MPR News meteorologist Paul Huttner said, 

“Most forecast models like the European suggest a band of generally 1 to 3 inches of snow along and either side of the I-94 corridor between Fargo and the Twin Cities.”

A Minnesota Department of Corrections investigation 

found staff at the county jail in Fergus Falls withheld six consecutive meals from an inmate

Minnesota State University State Moorhead President Tim Downs announced Wednesday 

the university will expand the North Star Promise program to students who meet the same criteria in North Dakota and South Dakota, the Fargo Forum reports.

: Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange both won Academy Awards for their roles in “Tootsie” in 1983. But that’s not all they have in common. 

They also both lived in Fargo 20 years earlier, just miles apart.

Fargo’s main library and the Dr. James Carlson Library for up to five free packets

Community Garden Grant through the City of Moorhead

. Four community gardens on private land, run by individuals or groups, can earn $500 for the effort.

 at 1 p.m. Skaters of all ages (as young as 3 years old) are performing.

It’s spring (and feels like winter), so how about we think about summer? North Dakota’s Renaissance Fairs are set for four weekends: 

two at the North Dakota Horse Park in June

Kicks Band of Fargo Moorhead performs Sunday.

Fargo Winter Blues Festival is next Wednesday.

What other events are you looking forward to? What’s important to you in the news this week? Let us know via our text club or by emailing afelegy@mpr.org.

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Fargo-Moorhead News

Snow is likely Thursday and over the weekend with highs consistently in the upper 20s for most of the week.


Today in Fargo-Moorhead: Snow incoming, county jail inmate allegedly denied food, water

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