Monthly Archives: October 2011

On this date …

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Here’s some of the top headlines on inforum.com on this date:

Firefighters responded to a 5-alarm fire at the Galleria On 42nd. Carrie Snyder / The Forum

ONE YEAR AGO: A massive blaze destroyed the Galleria on 42nd apartment building in Fargo, displacing 150 residents of the complex.

TWO YEARS AGO: Light snow created slippery driving conditions on bridges and overpasses in the Fargo-Moorhead area, catching motorists by surprise and leading to several accidents.
Eight accidents – three of them rollovers – were reported between 6 and 7:10 a.m. on interstates 29 and 94 in Fargo and West Fargo.

THREE YEARS AGO: Opening-day ticket sales for a Jan. 17 Fargodome concert by rock music giants AC/DC were “very brisk” Saturday, according to the dome’s general manager. Tickets, which are $69.50 or $89.50, went on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday.

FOUR YEARS AGO: Three people were arrested today when authorities seized a methamphetamine laboratory in south Fargo.
The Cass County Narcotics Task Force and the Fargo Police Department’s narcotics investigators served the warrant this morning at a residence in the 2200 block of Third Avenue South, according to a news release.

FIVE YEARS AGO: Fargo’s airport is giving its viewing park double duty as a cell phone park – a free place for drivers to wait for arriving passengers.
Hector International Airport is promoting the park as a way for motorists to pick up passengers without clogging the lanes in front of the passenger terminal.

Video views through the roof during cornfield manhunt

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The Forum strives to be very transparent when it comes to sharing our page views. Each Friday, our multimedia producer Ryan Babb collects and distributes a blog for public consumption showing our most- and least-read stories, as well as inforum.com’s and areavoices.com’s weekly numbers.

On Wednesday, more than 53,000 pageviews resulted from the developing story on the manhunt for Joseph Megna in a rural Tower City, N.D., cornfield. That number that was bolstered by our story-sharing ability with the Jamestown Sun and the Grand Forks Herald websites later in the day.

Our reporters and photographers are becoming increasingly better equipped to file photographs and video on location. It was on display Wednesday when photo chief Michael Vosburg and reporter Mike Nowatzki returned several video files and still photos that we began to post immediately.

Our raw video of the search, and later when Megna spoke from the back of a law enforcement SUV after his capture, collected more than 23,500 views, totaling more than 25,300 minutes. That’s 18 days worth of viewing.