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TexasTowelie

(117,261 posts)
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 11:46 AM Sep 2018

Smallest North Dakota city to double in population -- to 4

RUSO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's smallest incorporated city was on the verge of dissolving after the death of its longtime mayor. But now it's rebounding, with expectations to double its population — from two residents to four.

The McLean County community of Ruso was on the verge of disincorporation when its population dropped following the July death of 86-year-old Bruce Lorenz. It takes a minimum of three residents for a community to be incorporated, according to the North Dakota Century Code.

"We want to keep it going for Bruce's sake," Laurinda Roloson, the city's auditor and one of Ruso's two remaining residents, told the Minot Daily News. Her husband, Terry Roloson, is the other Ruso resident.

The city discovered that Greg Schmaltz qualifies as a resident because he has a Ruso mailbox and makes daily checks on his horses and chickens on land within city limits. So on Thursday, he's expected to become the city's next mayor.

Read more: https://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/strange_news/smallest-north-dakota-city-to-double-in-population-to/article_b6e82bae-4a07-5545-85d1-fa2f1d569d3a.html

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Smallest North Dakota city to double in population -- to 4 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP
I'd be willing to move into the city and be the collector of parking meter quarters. 3Hotdogs Sep 2018 #1
I suspect that the only time that the parking meters are actively used TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #2
Does google street show any parking meters? 3Hotdogs Sep 2018 #3
Why not just install your own parking meters? marylandblue Sep 2018 #4
It looks like you don't need to pack the moving truck. TexasTowelie Sep 2018 #6
My father in law grew up in Calvin exboyfil Sep 2018 #5

3Hotdogs

(13,485 posts)
1. I'd be willing to move into the city and be the collector of parking meter quarters.
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 11:48 AM
Sep 2018

What does that job pay?

TexasTowelie

(117,261 posts)
2. I suspect that the only time that the parking meters are actively used
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 11:58 AM
Sep 2018

are during the annual Gay Pride parade on North Main Street and 1st Avenue.

Yes, I checked the map and there is a Main Street and a North Main Street, along with 1st through 4th Avenues and a Flower Street.

3Hotdogs

(13,485 posts)
3. Does google street show any parking meters?
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 12:02 PM
Sep 2018

I'd move there only if I can get the parking meter collecting gig.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
4. Why not just install your own parking meters?
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 12:10 PM
Sep 2018

Also, there is a photo of an old jail at the link. Looks like with a little elbow grease you could reopen it as a private facility and house immigrants from South Dakota.

exboyfil

(18,017 posts)
5. My father in law grew up in Calvin
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 12:15 PM
Sep 2018

Actually on a farm a few miles outside of the town. Virtually all the farmers seem to live on the river - most in Fargo and Grand Forks and commute over when they have to do work. The town now has a population of 20. It is really like a ghost town when I visited 20 years ago.

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