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A friendly, hard-working healthcare staffer is the recipient of the February Employee of the Month honor. Tina Hermanson, who has worked in insurance billing and reception for both Nicolai Chiropractic Center and Peak Performance Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine, PLLC for more than a decade, was surprised with the award Wednesday by Chamber president Amy Wobbema and co-worker Connie Ystaas. Hermanson started working at Nicolai Chiropractic in 2004 and then Peak Performance in 2005. She does...
The NR-S School Board has been asked to consider a change in the way parents and guardians are notified of student progress in school. The board held the first reading of a revision to GCBB, Reporting Progress to Parents, at its regular meeting on Monday, Feb. 12. Per the proposal, the district would no longer mail out quarterly report cards to parents. Families are to use PowerSchool to track student progress and then communicate with teachers should any issues arise. The school has been...
The archery program at New Rockford-Sheyenne School recently got a boost in funds with help from the Eddy County Rod & Gun Club. President Scott Severs and Director Gene Masse of the Eddy County Rod & Gun Club presented a check for $1,650 to coach Jamie Risovi, Superintendent Jill Louters, and several archery students on Friday, Feb. 9. The funds will be used to purchase a set of 3D targets, which allow students to practice on life-size animal replicas, and other equipment needed for the...
Hearts and kisses are mainstays of Valentine's Day, and the combination of the two has a sweet history at NR-S School. Two senior Future Homemakers of America (FHA) members started the tradition of "hearts and kisses" at New Rockford High School in the '80s under the instruction of Gail Weisenburger. More than 30 years later, this fundraiser and service project still delivers positive messages to local students each Valentine's Day. "We literally cut out hearts the first year," Weisenburger...
Twelve top spellers from New Rockford- Sheyenne challenged themselves Wednesday, Feb. 14 at the Eddy County Spelling Bee. All students started with a 25 question vocabulary test, followed by a 50 word written spelling challenge. The four students with the best scores from the written rounds battled it out in three oral rounds of five words each. Seventh grader Emma Duda emerged as the champion after the first three oral rounds. Classmate Hallie Brown finished in second place. Eighth graders...
What would New Rockford's U.S. Hwy. 281 corridor look like with its frontage roads removed, and in their place wider, flatter in-slopes and green space? The North Dakota Department of Transportation presented an alternative construction plan to the New Rockford City Commission at its February 5 meeting. Wyatt Hanson attended on behalf of the department. He said that cost was an overarching concern in the public comments they received after they presented options for the 2019 construction at a...
January 1 was a big day for Thomas Sauby of Carrington. He became the sole owner of Evans Funeral Home four years to the day after he moved back to his hometown to take over for his dad, Fred. Thomas purchased Fred's interest in the business on January 1, 2014. This January 1, Thomas purchased Kent Braunberger's share of the business. Thomas wants residents here to know that even though the ownership has changed, the commitment Evans Funeral Home has to New Rockford will remain the same. The...
New Rockford-Sheyenne was well represented at the NASP Bullseye Archery Tournament in Cooperstown on Saturday, Feb. 3. Thirty-five archers shot six rounds of bullseye competition worth a total of 300 possible points (30 arrows each worth up to 10 points), and many logged career high scores at the meet. This was the second tournament of the season for the team. The team finished fifth out of seven teams and had six top 10 finishers in their respective divisions. The overall top finisher for the...
Hardware, auto parts and a whole lot more have made the Duchscherer family and their businesses fixtures of the New Rockford community for a quarter of a century. Todd and Renae have spent nearly all of their married life in business. The couple celebrated their 26th anniversary last August, and now 2018 marks their 25th year in business in the New Rockford community. The couple opened Big A Auto Parts on First Avenue North across the street to the west of the Post Office in New Rockford in...
With hundreds of cases reported in North Dakota alone each week, seasonal influenza is striking again. The season started early this year, as cases started to spike in North Dakota in mid-November. Whether this season's epidemic is now at its peak or still climbing remains to be seen. As of mid-January, every state in the continental U.S. was experiencing "widespread" flu activity. In the 13 years of the CDC's current flu-tracking system, "this is the first year we've had the entire continental...
Her contagious smile and compassionate nature brighten the front office of the New Rockford-Sheyenne School. Amy Benson, Office Manager at NR-S, was honored with the New Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce's Employee of the Month award for January. Benson, whose background is in the law field, spent nine years as a legal secretary before coming to NR-S School. The year and a half immediately prior, she served as the Wells County Assistant State's Attorney. "I love it here," Benson said with a wide...
Sales tax, a tax on sales or on the receipts from sales made within a defined area, is one of the primary sources of revenue for state and local governments. It is also one of the most talked about taxes recently, not only locally but also nationally. Locally, the City of New Rockford began collecting sales tax in 1996. Then, in 2008, the city commission passed a resolution to double the city sales tax from 1 percent to 2 percent. Since then, then city's taxable sales and purchases have t...
Just three votes separated the yeas from the nays when members of CenDak Farmers Union Cooperative reconsidered a merger with BTR Farmers Co-op on Friday, January 5. About half of the 386 qualified members cast ballots, 99 of them absentee and another 90 in person on the date of the vote. The final tally was 96-93 in favor of the merger. Prior to the official vote, the Board of Directors for CenDak held an informational session to allow members to ask questions about the merger. Directors pre...
The topic “exploration of special education services,” as stated on the agenda at the NR-S School Board meeting on Monday, January 8, didn’t begin or end how some expected. East Central’s Director of Special Education Denise Brandvold and several members of the East Central staff who work at NR-S attended the meeting, prepared to plead their case for retaining the contract in place between the two agencies. President John McKnight opened the discussion by outlining how the topic got on the...
Work continues on an application for funds to complete the major water and sewer infrastructure project planned for the City of New Rockford. Travis Dillman and Senger Wade Senger of Interstate Engineering attended the City Commission’s meeting on Tuesday, January 2 to review a two-page request for documentation from USDA. The paperwork must be turned in before the city will receive a notice of award from the agency. The city could receive up to 40 percent of the project cost in grant fun...
The new Casey's General Store in New Rockford will open Thursday, January 11, that according to an advertising representative with Casey's Retail. The store will host a grand opening on January 12 & 13....
"Take care of you," a phrase that means much to Allison Lindgren, has become the title of her new book released December 30. Those four little words still tug at my heart strings! Lindgren writes. "You see, I heard them every time my sister, Sarina, hugged me goodbye. She'd wrap her arms around me in a tight hug and quietly whisper those four little words in my ear. It became a ritual, one that I didn't fully appreciate at the time, but I'd nod and smile, without really thinking about their i...
District 23 Senator Joan Heckaman of New Rockford was one of 14 statewide leaders appointed by N.D. Governor Burgum to serve on his Task Force for Higher Education Governance. The announcement was made Thursday, December 21. The 15-member Task Force for Higher Education Governance was created by executive order in November and consists of the governor as chair and 14 members appointed by the governor. Burgum appointed the members from a pool of more than 230 applicants. "We are incredibly gra...
