Former Grand Forks Mayor Pat Owens said Monday that she has agreed to work part time as a special assistant for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Two weeks ago Paul Borgen found out that an 80-acre sugar beet field that looked fine from the field edge indeed was infected with root rot.
Root rot is a soil-borne fungus disease that can destroy the beet root.
A new wildfire that exploded near Yellowstone National Park over the weekend was growing quickly in a Montana mountain range bordered by dude ranches and popular backpacking trails. In their first major confrontation with police, hundreds of chanting environmental activists blocked a busy downtown intersection then clashed with officers in riot gear as the Democratic National Convention opened Monday. Police arrested 10 protesters. But navy officials said the odds of saving the men were slim.