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I was among a small group of three who decided to explore downtown Crosby, Minn., the nearest town to the lake house my husband’s family inhabited for a few days this past week. The population is 2,300, so it has a few more residents than Carrington. This central Minnesota town had a fair amount of traffic that Saturday afternoon, however, a sight that I would love to see in New Rockford or Carrington. No doubt the lake (one of Minnesota’s 10,000) – and the nearby Cuyuna Country State Recreation...
No, we don't need more sleep. It's our souls that are tired, not our bodies. We need nature. We need magic. We need adventure. We need freedom. We need truth. We need stillness. We don't need more sleep. We need to wake up and live. This poem, which was presented as a meme on my Facebook feed this afternoon, was just what I needed. It made me stop in my tracks and think. Better yet, it was just the inspiration I needed to write this column. I see and read a lot of conflicting advice these days,...
From Schroeder's music and Linus' blanket to the Red Baron and the kite-eating tree, this summer DPRCA brings to life the beloved comic strip that transcends generations. "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" opens Wednesday, July 12 at the Old Church Theatre. Bring grandma and the grandgirls to this family-friendly show. First staged more than 50 years ago in 1967, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" has something patrons of all ages will enjoy. Based on Charles Schulz's famous comic strip, this...
As I write this, summer has officially begun. It's the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. The weather is fine, and it's time to take in a live show (or nine). This year a pop culture icon will come alive at the little theatre on Central Avenue in New Rockford. "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" debuts July 12 at Old Church Theatre, featuring the art of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. "Peanuts" debuted in newspapers on Oct. 2, 1950, years before my parents were even born. The short...
“Mom, wanna be on my BeReal?” my 16-year-old daughter asked me one day. “Um, sure,” I replied sheepishly, because frankly I didn’t even know what she was talking about. She told me to look at her camera phone, and she quickly snapped a photo of us. I didn’t really give it much more thought at the time. Since then, my husband and I have made guest appearances in both our daughters’ BeReal feeds several times. What is BeReal, you ask? Well, it’s just another social media app that all the kids ar...
City utilities were once again the hot topic at Monday’s New Rockford City Commission meeting. Larry Danduran, a rural Eddy County resident who owns property in the city, expressed concern about a new policy implemented for utility billing. Danduran owns a property with a vacant structure, and the city recently started charging him for city services on that property. He doesn’t, and hasn’t, used any city services, however, for as long as he’s owned it. When financing the water project, which b...
This time of year, there’s a produce patch in my backyard that requires no maintenance other than a regular cutting. It’s none other than rhubarb, and I don’t enjoy it nearly as much as I should. Botanically, rhubarb is a vegetable. In use it is considered a fruit. That’s according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who also notes that rhubarb actually belongs to the buckwheat family. Most of the nation’s rhubarb is grown in Washington, Michigan and California. There’s even a grading sys...
The New Rockford Swimming Pool officially opened on the first day of June, and kids came out in droves to beat the sudden summer heat. See more photos in our online gallery here: https://www.newrockfordtranscript.com/photos Photos by Amy Wobbema....
Newspaper publishers were recently told that our postage rates are set to increase by 8 percent in July. This is the third rate increase since August 2022, and a total of 35 percent in increases in just over two years. The cost of printing newspapers has also increased, by 24 percent since the spring of 2021. Annual subscription rates, meanwhile, at the Independent and Transcript have increased by $6 in the past 8 years I’ve been a publisher. In order to fully cover the costs of printing and p...
Summer is a great time to relax with a good book, whether it be under a cabana on the beach or in a chair on your patio. Our local libraries in both Carrington and New Rockford are hosting Summer Reading Programs, and their kick-off celebrations are coming up this week as we officially start summer break. A staff member in the Carrington office was chatting with one of her book club buddies last week. They had finished their latest title before everyone else and were so surprised by the ending....
Your local newspaper brought home 27 awards in the annual Better Newspaper Contest, announced at Spirit Lake Casino during the 137th annual North Dakota Newspaper Association Convention on Friday, May 12. The Transcript competes in the mid-size weekly category, which includes 18 newspapers. The awards reflect journalistic work completed in 2022, for anything from news and editorial writing to photography and advertising design. The top award received by the Transcript was second place in...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and it’s time to get real. Here in the newsroom, we struggle too. No matter how many positive stories we publish, the “bad news” stories seem to rise to the top for readers. Yes, we must report on these topics, however unpleasant. It’s our job as journalists to read through the police reports and court filings and help citizens make sense of the crazy in our world. And when we do publish all the details, we know those stories will get read. However, it’s th...
Every year for Mother’s Day I give flower pots from a local greenhouse to my mom and my mother-in-law. It’s a great way to show our appreciation, and it brightens their yard and gives them something to enjoy all summer and into the fall. I typically choose an arrangement of common varieties, such as geraniums or petunias, that has already been potted and ready for purchase. This year I decided to take it up a notch. The theme is kindness and gratitude, and I’m planting the pots myself so I can...
There are only two seasons in North Dakota, some say – winter and road construction. That will certainly be true for New Rockford yet again this year. New Rockford city commissioners learned Monday that Bituminous Paving will return on May 15 to finish the street project. They have nine spots of rehabilitation to do, per Public Works Superintendent Bruce Hirchert, as well as more paving and chip seal throughout. The company will be assessed a $1,500 per day penalty for liquidated damages, as t...
My trip to Salt Lake City was one I won’t forget. Breathtaking scenery, great food and family time were among my favorite parts of the five-day excursion west. Leaving work behind was definitely the hardest. I knew it would be a challenge, and so I made lists and meticulously tied up loose ends before we hit the road. I left the keys in my vehicle in the garage, just in case the newspapers didn’t make it to Carrington on Friday and needed to be picked up in Jamestown or Fargo (as has been the...
The Rocket archers sure know how to end a season on a high note. After a two-day competition in Sandy, Utah, New Rockford-Sheyenne brought two archers to the winner's circle at the NASP Western National Tournament on April 29. The five-day journey began at 8 a.m. Wednesday, as 26 archers, two coaches and their chaperones loaded a Harlow's charter bus in front of the NR-S Gym. They traveled to Gillette, Wyoming on day one, and ended the day with Mexican cuisine from local favorite Armando's Taco...
Where did the month of April go? That’s what I find myself wondering. So much for April showers. May we please get May flowers anyway? Surely the April snow had enough moisture in it to help them bloom. The next day that I’ll wake up in North Dakota is Monday, May 1, the publication date of this newspaper. I have sticky notes all over my MacBook and more on my desk, to remind me of all the things I must finish before we leave for the NASP Western National Archery Tournament in Utah. As I pre...
We said goodbye to the Golden Stratus last week. The 2005 Dodge Stratus that was supposed to last through all three teenage drivers in our household was hauled away to the scrapyard. I bought that car with cash from an older gentleman when I was driving to Jamestown for work over 10 years ago. I was looking for something inexpensive that had better gas mileage than my 4x4 SUV, knowing that it would put on many highway miles. When I started working in New Rockford again, my husband and I told...
It’s been a long, rough winter. I haven’t seen parts of my sidewalk or most of my backyard since December. I knocked icicles off my roof at the office for the 110th time last week in the midst of the blizzard, and one bounced off my wrist before it crashed to the ground. Now I have a sunny yellow bruise in that spot. Hopefully it’s a sign that it was the last time I have to deal with ice for several months. Surely brighter days are ahead, I said out loud to myself as I rubbed my wrist. On Tuesd...
“This brown water keeps rearing its ugly head around town,” President Stuart Richter told commissioners and the public at the New Rockford City Commission’s April 3 meeting. He had met with Interstate Engineering after complaints had come pouring in again about water quality issues. Wage Senger of Interstate Engineering prepared a written report outlining the issues and their course of action to address them, which Richter reviewed with the commission. The most recent round of unsavory water...
"Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them," writes author Margaret Mitchell. I second that, and I will add blizzards to the list, especially after the winter we've had in good ole NoDak. Tax Day is April 18, and this year it's a doozy. The IRS changed the W-4 form a couple of years ago, and since then many of us have been trying to crack the code that tells us exactly how many extra dollars to have withheld from each paycheck to avoid paying a boatload of...
During the entire month of March, the air temperature did not get above 32 degrees in Carrington, according to data from the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network (NDAWN). The normal maximum air temperature for March in Carrington is 36 degrees, four degrees warmer than the highest temperature on record for this March. The normal maximum air temperature is calculated by averaging the maximum air temperatures for the same month from the past 30 years, 1991-2020. The average soil temperature...
It’s City Government Week. In the Transcript we are running essays written by third graders at New Rockford-Sheyenne School. The topic is “If I Were Mayor” and each student had the opportunity to write about what makes their city great and what they would do if they were mayor for a day. In honor of City Government Week, I decided to write the same essay and print it here as my column. So, here it is, folks! If I were mayor, I’d never hold meetings on Wednesday afternoons or Thursday morning...
It's officially spring. Well, at least that's what the calendar says. We observed the Spring Equinox on Monday at 4:24 p.m., in the midst of piles of snow and a temperature below the freezing mark. At least the sun was out in all its glory, blinding me as I made the short trek from New Rockford to Carrington and back home. Little more than 24 hours later, our area got yet another round of snow, and with it came "challenging travel conditions," in the words of the meteorologists tasked with...
