“The city of Williston has announced plans to annex 4,800 acres north of the city.
“City officials say the annexation is needed to keep pace with the region’s oil boom.
“The city currently occupies about 8,100 acres or about 12.6 square miles. That’s up from about seven square miles in 2006. The so-called ‘North Annexation’ would enlarge the city to more than 20 square miles,” via Forum of Fargo Moorhead.
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“The time has raced by, but the people and the moments are forever stopped,” via Duluth News Tribune.
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“In a desperate effort to prevent foreclosure on his parents’ farm, Kyle Slaby applied to his local township board last year for permission to mine frac sand. He dreamed of erasing more than $600,000 in debt and getting rich from deposits of high-grade crystalline silica, which is in hot demand because of the national boom in hydro-fracking for oil and gas.
“What he never saw coming, he says, was one of the township’s three elected officers derailing his plan — and then going into the sand business himself.
