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On Tuesday, July 19, the New Rockford Pink Sox participated in their post-season tournament at Ruger Field in Devils Lake, capping off a successful and enjoyable summer. Up first to face New Rockford was the softball team from Lakota, and the matchup immediately went well for the Pink Sox. New Rockford scored three runs in the top of the first, and scored no fewer than two runs in each of the four innings that followed. In fact, the Sox' bats made solid contact all day long, as the tell-tale...
On July 13 - 14, the New Rockford Black Sox took on the Babe Ruth District 4 Tournament as the No. 2 seed, but would end up bowing out after just three games. The tournament, which began in New Rockford, started well for the Black Sox as they took on Nelson County. The Sox opened the scoring with two runs in the bottom of the first, and didn't look back. Another run followed in the third, before the game was put out of reach in the fourth inning with a seven-run onslaught. Standouts for New...
The City of New Rockford now has its own app for residents to download. According to Amanda Hegland, Executive Director of the New Rockford Area Betterment Corporation (NRABC), the N.D. Department of Health received a grant allowing them to offer the "Living Local app" to cities and counties for free for up to two years. This past winter, city auditor Becki Schumacher, and Hegland met with representatives from Living Local to learn about the app and what it all would entail. "After lots of...
Student government is alive and well at New Rockford-Sheyenne. In recent months, the New Rockford-Sheyenne School Board has been considering significant changes to the district's dress code, and a decision was finally made at a recent board meeting. The debate began in February, when Student Representative Amzi Meier, who presents a "student report" at regular monthly meetings, told the NR-S board he'd recently conducted his own student survey. "I knew that students had grievances against...
At their regular meeting on Monday, July 11, the New Rockford-Sheyenne school board completed a laundry list of necessary tasks ahead of the 2022-23 school year. First and foremost was welcoming Eric Perleberg, the latest resident to represent the district on New Rockford-Sheyenne’s School Board. Monday night’s meeting was his first since being elected last month. Among the board’s and Perleberg’s first tasks was consideration of Rhonda Stevenson’s resignation from her position as the district...
Two Sheyenne residents have been charged with varying degrees of assault following a physical fight on June 18. According to court documents, the fight began as a verbal altercation between Chelsea Laroque and her husband, Mitchell Laroque. For her alleged role in the fight, Chelsea Laroque has been charged with aggravated assault, a Class C felony. According to court documents, “When M.L. (Mitchell Laroque) attempted to remove their children from the house during the fight, the Defendant (...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Rolette County’s new radio network will increase chances of saving lives Dispatching in Rolette County has become more effective. Local officials recently completed installing the Statewide Interoperable Radio Network (SIRN). SIRN is described as a communication system for first responders to serve and protect citizens. Although there are three dispatching centers left in the state to ins...
On Thursday, July 7, New Rockford Post #30 hosted a double header against the Jamestown Hawks, and earned a much needed sweep after suffering close defeats in the prior days. For a time, however, Post #30 seemed destined for another loss as the first of Thursday's games got underway. The Hawks opened the game with four earned runs against Black Sox starting pitcher Luke Yri, to which New Rockford found no response in the bottom of the inning. With a comfortable 4-0 lead entering inning No. 2,...
On Monday, July 11, New Rockford Post #30 ended their regular season with victory, defeating the Ashley/Linton/Wishek Rattlers 5-0 at home in their last regular-season match of the summer. Post #30 did most of their damage early, scoring four runs in the first two innings, before adding an insurance run in the fifth. From the batter's box, Connor Knatterud and Keaton Cudworth were particularly effective; together they accounted for four of New Rockford's five runs. Luke Yri also enjoyed a good...
The New Rockford Black Sox will enter the regional Babe Ruth tournament on a high, having defeated Devils Lake 4-3 on Monday, July 11. It wasn't a district matchup and it only lasted five-innings, but it was reminiscent of many of this season's games, as it showed once again that when it matters most, New Rockford has what it takes to close out a win. As they so often do, the Sox started well, scoring two runs in the first inning and another in the second. Connor Knatterud has been one of the...
On Saturday, July 2, players from the state champion 1972 New Rockford Legion Baseball team gathered for their half century reunion. They were joined by the 1996, 1997 and 1998 Black Sox teams, celebrating a quarter century since they qualified for the state tournament three years running. Herb Hofer, second baseman for the team in '72 and assistant coach in '97 and '98, helped organize the reunion and began the event with a slideshow presentation. The players and their families reminisced...
Storm shelters were the big topic of discussion at the Eddy County Commission's regular meeting on Tuesday, July 5. Eddy County Emergency Manager, Lisa Thompson, told commissioners that she's been working with the American Red Cross about public sheltering in case of major storms and power outages. Sheyenne, she said, already has a good shelter in Ostby Hall, but New Rockford's current shelter, the NR-S Public School, is becoming a less desirable location given recent trends. "The schools are...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Arson cause of Church fire near Harwood The cause of a fire at Maple Sheyenne Lutheran Church near Harwood has been deemed arson. According to Cass County Sheriff Jesse Jahner, the investigation has been fully turned over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), a federal agency with jurisdiction for investigating fires and crimes of arson at houses of worship. ATF,...
The New Rockford Black Sox Babe Ruth team just keeps winning. After walking away victorious from two more games on June 29 and July 5, the New Rockford Black Sox boasted a 8-2 overall record, enough to secure the No. 2 seed in the upcoming district tournament. The tournament is typically hosted by the No. 1 seed, however, this year's No. 1 seed is Thompson, and construction surrounding their field has caused tournaments to be relocated. Therefore, the honor of hosting the first round has been...
The New Rockford Post #30 Black Sox Traveled to Tolna on Friday, June 29, to take on Nelson County, and for most of the game, the Black Sox seemed poised to return home with another victory. Post #30 jumped on offense immediately as Friday’s game got underway, scoring two runs in the first inning and again in the third. Meanwhile, starting pitcher Caden Price was pitching a gem. After giving up one run in the first, he kept Nelson County from scoring at all in the second, third, fourth and f...
On Tuesday, June 14, voters across North Dakota took to the polls to cast their votes in this summer’s elections, even in the small town of Oberon. Oberon’s population is just 101 according to the 2020 census, and the number of eligible voters is fewer still. Even so, one resident says relatively few voters turned out for the city’s elections, and, in his opinion, that’s no coincidence. Corey Ploium, a resident of Oberon, alleges that multiple procedures were improperly conducted or ignored...
Earlier this year, following an outstanding regular season, Layton Jacobson went to nationals and displayed yet another strong performance. And now, on the biggest stage in NASP Archery, he's done it again. From June 23 through June 25, archers from anywhere and everywhere competed in the 2022 NASP Open/Championship tournaments for Bullseye and IBO 3D, otherwise known as the World Tournament. Jacobson, who had recently earned first place among 755 male archers at the western national tournament...
DPRCAs latest production, "Little Shop of Horrors," is just days away, and four new cast members have come to New Rockford to help bring the show to life. Brooke Kassal, a native of Chicago, Ill., is playing the role of Audrey, who Kassal described as "very sweet and giving, and the only person who is not solely driven by greed in the show." "Every single person in this show is driven by greed of some sort," she added. "We see it mostly in the plant, because he wants to eat people, but every...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. N.D. Highway Patrol and Spirit Lake Tribe sign mutual aid agreement On Tuesday, June 14, a mutual aid agreement was signed between the Spirit Lake Tribe and the N.D. Highway Patrol. This agreement will enhance law enforcement in the areas of emergency calls, requests for mutual aid and other law enforcement functions on the Spirit Lake Reservation. The agreement does not expand arrest a...
The New Rockford Black Sox recently took on two different teams from Thompson in Babe Ruth baseball, with two completely different outcomes. The Black Sox battled Thompson's first team on Wednesday, June 22, on the road. Thompson scored three runs in the first inning, followed by nine more in the second and third. The Black Sox, meanwhile, couldn't find home plate and went the whole game without scoring. After five innings, they found themselves down 12-0, sending them home earlier than...
From Friday, June 24, through Sunday, June 26, a dozen Legion baseball teams from across the region participated in the 2022 Mid-Summer Classic in Jamestown and Valley City. Nearby teams taking part were New Rockford Post #30 and Carrington Post #25, who both had similarly up-and-down weekends. On the first day, New Rockford Post #30 took on Jamestown Post #14 Blues, and despite a strong comeback effort, lost 5-4 to fall painfully short of escaping with an early victory. Day two saw Post #30...
Soldiers of the North Dakota National Guard's 835th Engineer Utilities Detachment (835th) recently returned from a 9-month-long deployment to the Middle East. The 835th left for their deployment on Aug. 13 last year, and since then have completed more than 130 construction missions and 16 "requests for engineer support" on bases throughout the Middle East, including in Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Sergeant 1st Class Reece Thomas, Sergeant Sierra Erickson, both New...
On May 23, representatives from New Rockford-Sheyenne attended a contentious mediation session with East Central at the Federal Courthouse in Fargo, and for the first time since, have discussed publicly their opinions of how that day transpired. At their regular meeting on Monday, June 20, board member Todd Allmaras, who attended the mediation in person, told the board there were “no appreciable gains” as a result of mediation, and that emotions had hijacked the process and left little room for...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Late start, high hopes; 2022 planting comes to a close in Walsh County When it comes to agriculture, the word “normal” can rarely be applied. Just when you think you have seen it all, Mother Nature steps in and shows off that extra trick she’s been hiding up her sleeve. For this 2022 planting season, there has been no shortage of plot twists that local farmers have had to adapt to. For Der...
On Thursday, June 16, New Rockford Post #30 took on Nelson County Post #162 in Legion baseball, and delivered their strongest performance yet this season. Thursday's game was a low-scoring affair between New Rockford and Nelson County, as the pitchers on both teams efficiently worked through their opposing teams' lineup. Starting for Post #162 was Cole Hendrickson, whose only difficult inning came in the first, when he and an error from the Owls' defense allowed two Black Sox runners to cross...
