This oil boomtown, known for its brawling roughnecks and their spare living conditions, is starting to smooth off its rough edges. But not all of them. Muddy pickup trucks still jam the streets, but they drive past recent additions to town, including more than a dozen new restaurants like . Subdivisions are springing up along the hills and a $73 million recreation center opened last weekend. Williston is working to transform itself into a stable community built for a long future, but remnants of the scrappy oil town remain. Thousands of workers still crowd into so-called man camps. Seedy taverns dot the map. “It’s a boomtown—that’s a fact of life,” said Mayor Ward Koeser, “but I believe this […]