Thursday,  April 26, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 287 • 19 of 40 •  Other Editions

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ers helped sponsor the racks, which cost $180 each.
• City officials helped with the cost and installation.
• Jensen says another upcoming project from the downtown association will install historic street lamps.
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ND regulators approve $312M electric power line
DALE WETZEL,Associated Press

• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota regulators on Wednesday approved the state's largest electric transmission project since the 1970s, a 250-mile power line that will link a western North Dakota power plant to a network of rural electric cooperatives.

• The $312 million project, which its developer expects to complete by the end of 2013, is part of an elaborate power and transmission swap with another utility that has been developing wind energy projects in western North Dakota.
• Tony Clark, chairman of North Dakota's Public Service Commission, said the new power line should decrease the chances for supply outages in northeastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota.
• "There is a less robust (electric)

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