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Boilers and bus drivers were the hot topics of conversation when the New Rockford-Sheyenne Board of Education met via Zoom on Monday, August 9. School is ready to start, and all the teachers are accounted for. Classrooms are ready under direction of newly appointed Custodial Manager Tori Dockter. The Board of Education has even planned a BBQ for Back-to-School Night on Monday, August 23. But, it has been a challenge this summer to secure bus route drivers. The problem is finding a licensed bus driver who owns his or her own bus. Superintendent...
On Monday, July 19, the New Rockford-Sheyenne School Board of Education met via Zoom. As July is typically the reorganization meeting for the school board, election of officers was held. Mary Kay Price, who has represented the former New Rockford district on the board since 2015, was elected as the new president. She succeeds Alyson Myhre, a representative from the former Sheyenne district, who has served as president for the past two years. Mike Jacobson will remain in his role as vice president. The board also welcomed newly-elected member...
At the last school board meeting, the NR-S board charged Superintendent Jill Louters to negotiate a contract with the preferred architectural firm for the second gymnasium project, ICON Architectural Group, LLC. At the June 14 meeting, board member Mike Jacobson invited Kyle Kvamme and Allie Stevens from ICON to give a brief presentation to help educate the board on the Scope of Work Contract placed in front of them. ICON has worked with over 100 schools in the North Dakota area offering fundraising support, location considerations, economy of...
Monday, May 10, the New Rockford-Sheyenne School Board met, and building projects were the topic of conversation. The second gym project is moving forward. The next steps have been taken to start negotiations with an architectural firm. The building committee interviewed six architectural firms, finding one that met all the district’s needs. The Grand Forks firm they chose to start negotiations with is well versed in fundraising, social media campaigning, searching for a location to build the gym, as well as all the architectural details n...
New Rockford-Sheyenne Board of Education met in the school cafeteria on Monday, April 12, the second in-person meeting they’ve held since the pandemic began. New Business Manager Dave Skogen opened the meeting. Skogen seems to be settling in nicely, as he was very comfortable in his reporting of all the numbers. Readers can access all the meeting materials, including his financial report, on the NRS website, newrockford-sheyenne.k12.nd.us/district/board-packet/. Elementary Principal Mrs. Becker introduced a new power hour opportunity s...
Thursday is ESports game day! On March 18 New Rockford-Sheyenne took on the 'Spectral Spears' out of Alabama. Alex Harrison, Stephen Merrick and Wyatt Dockter, of team 'Phantoms' crushed them! The first game was 14-0, second 8-0, and the third in the series 15-0. This moves the Phantoms ranking to eighth overall. Go Team! 'Controlled Chaos' did not fair as well, ending with a 0-3 finish. 'The Geeks' had a bye week. 'Sentinels' did not play. Practice is the key to winning and it seems to be...
New Rockford-Sheyenne School's newest sporting team Esports, is off to a stellar start. Currently, there are 13 students in grades 8-12 competing weekly in an online game called Rocket League. What is Rocket League? Think of soccer with vehicles. Students play in teams of three. Each player has their own vehicle. The goal is to get the giant ball into your goal, while keeping your opponents' three vehicles from stealing the ball and scoring in their goal. Just like soccer. There are 15 schools i...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne School Board met in person on Monday, March 8. It has been one year of Zoom meetings thanks to COVID-19. After financial reports from all departments, a discussion regarding work done to the Rocket activity bus ensued. To keep our children safe, over $10,000 in repair work to the front end of the bus was completed. This price tag included a new windshield, a couple new windows and a water pump. Bus drivers are very happy with the work. Superintendent Jill Louters expressed lofty goals for summer school this year,...
The second annual Roger Wick Memorial Pinochle Tournament was graciously hosted at Buck-It's Bar on Friday, Feb. 19. Twenty-eight Pinochle players came out to escape the winter doldrums and play this trick-taking card game, enjoy some Midnight Munchies and indulge in libations. The mood was fun; the play was serious. Roger would have been proud. Tim Allmaras and his partner Bob Collier won the first round with a 1,500 rope AND 300 pinochle in the same hand! Mandy Fandrich was second and Cherry...
Halloween 2020. It was a COVID-19 fright. The North Dakota wind showed up. Some stayed in, others went to the movies, and a few participated in the time-honored tradition of trick-or-treating. One thing for sure Halloween was different. Whatever people did, there was a buzz of gratitude in New Rockford that there even was a Halloween experience. NR-S Sources of Strength students added to the buzz with a Trick-or-Treat Food Drive. This generosity campaign has been in the works for the past month...
Tis the week before Christmas and in the corner of the house, is a Christmas tree happily living in a box. Christmas, the most joyous time of the year! Full of lights that twinkle on trees, the comforting smells of sweet treats and smoking meat, pleasant songs from our childhood swimming in our heads. Family, presents, fun and friends.... the most joyous time of the year. Hmm, for who? Sometimes "most joyous" equals "most stressful." My lack of time management, inability to see reality and yet understand the reality of my inability to achieve...
