Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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North Dakota’s unforgiving winter made a casualty out of the NR-S Rockets’ game with the May-Port-CG Patriots at Hillsboro Holiday Hoops, which was originally slated to be played on Dec. 27. The game involving the two opponents will not be made up, but a new school has stepped into place to fill that vacated slot on the Rockets’ 19-game season schedule. NR-S will face Region 2 opponent Hatton-Northwood on Tuesday, February 5. There will be five scheduled games with the Thunder, starting with...
After earning some respect from the Class B pollsters, the New Rockford-Sheyenne boys' basketball squad justified that appraisal of their level of play with an impressive victory at the Hillsboro Holiday Hoops jamboree Friday, Dec. 28. The Rockets took down a respectable opponent in the Central Cass Squirrels with relative ease, 82-62, thanks to dual 20-plus point outings by Teddy Allmaras (28 points) and Bo Belquist (21) in the Hillsboro High School gym. Hunter Thompson also played a strong...
One area football player stood head and shoulders above the rest, with the release of the All-Region 2 Team in the Nine-Man Football classification. New Rockford-Sheyenne's Teddy Allmaras was named the Senior Athlete of the Year for the region. It was impossible to ignore the stat lines from Allmaras, the Rockets' senior quarterback. The 5'11", 165-pound signal caller marched NR-S up and down the field to the tune of 2,240 yards passing and 35 touchdowns to just eight interceptions, and also rus...
Dr. Kristin Atwood has joined the Professional Eyecare office in Carrington as its newest optometrist. Beginning her work in the Central City several weeks ago, Dr. Atwood will see patients on a rotational basis with current doctors Kent Fronk and Douglas Frohlich between Professional Eyecare’s Carrington, Jamestown and Valley City offices. Atwood, originally from Borup, Minn., graduated from Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton High School in 2010. She finished her bachelor’s degree in biology at Con...
After 30-plus years as a licensed funeral director, Jason Skiftun got his opportunity to come home. Skiftun now works alongside owner/director Tom Sauby at Evans Funeral Home of Carrington and New Rockford, providing caring service to families of departed loved ones in their time of grief. The rural Fessenden native, who grew up on a farm nearly 7 miles south of town, was in his seventh year working at a funeral home in Long Prairie, Minn., near Alexandria, when a chance meeting allowed for a...
