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08/27/2025

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08/25/2025

08/22/2025

The Fall 2025 edition of Extraordinary Living magazine, "a magazine for the rest of us," is on FM newsstands now. Or read it online now at www.thefmextra.com/living/

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08/22/2025

Moorhead High School to Recognize 2025 Hall of Honor Inductees Sept. 19

Moorhead Area Public Schools is pleased to announce the induction of five new members into the Moorhead High School Hall of Honor in 2025, all MHS alumni: Jeff Bangsberg, Nancy Evert, Matt Gilbertson, Mark Manney and Grant Weyland. These inductees join 96 members previously inducted into the Hall of Honor, bringing the total to 101 members.

The Moorhead High School Hall of Honor recognizes alumni, faculty, staff and other community members who have demonstrated notable accomplishments or provided significant contributions to their school, community or society.

The 2025 MHS Hall of Honor Inductee Luncheon will be held on Friday, September 19, at 11:00 a.m. at the MAPS Operations Center, 1313 30th Ave. S. Tickets can be purchased online at moorheadschools.org/tix, by calling 218-284-2345 or emailing [email protected].

“This year’s Hall of Honor class goes to show all the different ways that Spuds impact our community and the world,” said Dave Lawrence, Hall of Honor coordinator and MHS administrator. “From influential leaders right here in Moorhead, to regional executives—and even the former captain of Air Force One—these inductees are fine examples of what Moorhead High grads can go on to be.”

Read more about each honoree in the Aug. 21 edition of the FM Extra, on newsstands now, and online at https://www.thefmextra.com/moorhead-high-school-to-recognize-2025-hall-of-honor-inductees-september-19/

08/22/2025

Innovate28 Pushes Hard To Match Local Companies & Job Seekers

A couple of movers and shakers laid out the workforce and recruitment progress as well as the four-year game plan for the Clay County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday in Moorhead.

Shannon Full, president and CEO of the Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo Chamber of Commerce, and Joe Raso, president and CEO of the Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corp., presented in tandem for the board, and as representatives of a combined venture called Innovate28.

Innovate28 is a joint partnership between the Chamber and the Economic Development Corporation.

It’s a four-year initiative focusing on three major areas: public policy, workforce and business development.

“As we all know, we are a growing community,” Miller said. “But we need to have intentionality behind that growth as well and this plan dives into that.”

Read more about the presentation to the commission in the Aug. 21 edition of the FM Extra, on newsstands now, and online at https://www.thefmextra.com/innovate28-pushes-hard-to-match-local-companies-job-seekers/

08/22/2025

Six Sworn In as MPD Police Officers

Four men and two women have been sworn in as officers of the Moorhead Police Department, bringing it closer to its full force of 64.

The ceremony was conducted before the Moorhead City Council on Aug. 11, with the new officers’ families participating in pinning on their badges. Their addition reduces the number of current openings to 14.

Read more about the new officers in the Aug. 21 edition of the FM Extra, on newsstands now, and online at https://www.thefmextra.com/six-sworn-in-as-mpd-officers/

08/22/2025

Heather Nesemeier -- 'If We Work Together, We Can Do Anything'

Getting To Know the Council: This is the seventh in a series of Extra profiles on members of the Moorhead City Council.

Heather Nesemeier never set out to help run Moorhead as a member of its governing council. Today, though, she’s four years into that role, representing Ward 2 – from 11th Street to the eastern border, and from Main Avenue to Interstate 94.

As a volunteer, the 43-year-old Moorhead woman had been involved in a broad spectrum of community activities, ranging from three PB&J School Lunch fundraisers that have raised more than $20,000 to help pay school lunch debt, to expanding the Ellen Hopkins School Nature Play Park, with its food forest and community gardens.

“I’ve had the pleasure of supporting many people who have run for office,” she adds. “So when the opportunity to fill out the application to fill the open seat on the city council, and with the support of former mayor Del Rae Williams and her husband, I decided to try.

“I like to be a catalyst. I know I can’t do it all by myself. If we come together, we can all be catalysts for good … for making a difference in our own community, our nation, our world.”

Read more about Ward 2's council member Heather Nesemeier in the Aug. 21 edition of the FM Extra, on the newsstands now, and online at https://www.thefmextra.com/if-we-work-together-we-can-do-anything/

08/20/2025

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08/20/2025

08/16/2025

LaPoint: DG Fuels Plant Now Tabbed at $7 Billion

One wonders if Derrick LaPoint had imagined seven years ago when he took the job that Moorhead would undertake so many gargantuan economic projects as we’re seeing.

The Downtown Moorhead Inc. president and CEO has been integral in a complete redevelopment of 16 acres downtown into a half-billion-dollar hub with retail, housing for 1,000 residents, a new library and community center, and parking structures come to mind first.

The $120+ million underpass at 11th Street is nothing to scoff at either. Nor is the new $142 million Moorhead High School. And did we mention the White Earth Nation casino planned for east of town in a few years? Hundreds of jobs coming from there as well.

But the real big fish, which seemingly keeps getting bigger, continues its slow but measured plan to fruition.

The future DG Fuels plant south of the interstate now comes with a price tag of $7 billion, $2 billion more than initially planned last year.

LaPoint revealed the jaw-dropping number before the Clay County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday morning at their regular meeting in Moorhead.

Read more about LaPoint's report in the Aug. 14 edition of the FM Extra. It's on newsstands now, and online at

One wonders if Derrick LaPoint had imagined seven years ago when he took the job that Moorhead would undertake so many gargantuan economic projects as we’re seeing.