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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...
Since dominating Devils Lake 19-3 on June 10, the New Rockford Black Sox have gone on to win their next three games, two of which were won by six or more runs. The Black Sox first traveled to Hillsboro on Wednesday, June 15, where they opened a suffocating lead early on. In the first inning alone they amassed five runs, followed by three in the second and another in the third. Black Sox starting pitcher Alex Weisenburger, meanwhile, kept Hillsboro from scoring a single earned run in his four...
Voters in Eddy County took to the polls Tuesday, June 14, to cast their ballots for local elections and primary races within their county, district and state. Of the 2,015 eligible voters in Eddy County, 572 cast a ballot in this year’s primary election. Of those, 412 were mail-in ballots, while just 160 were cast in-person on election day. According to Eddy County Auditor Patty Williams, turnout for this year’s primary was the lowest it’s been in at least a decade. In the two most recent non-p...
In the overnight and early morning hours of Tuesday, June 14, severe storms saturated New Rockford and much of Eddy County. Loud claps of thunder and sheets of rain blanketed the area, and at approximately 11 p.m. Monday night, the National Weather Service in Grand Forks issued a tornado warning for southwest Benson County, southwest Ramsey County and northwestern Eddy County after "radar indicated rotation" was picked up near Oberon. At least one New Rockford resident woke to find more than...
Kick off your festivities this 4th of July weekend by supporting local veterans at the annual Freedom 5K! The New Rockford Transcript will be hosting the event this year, which is scheduled for Saturday, July 2 at 8 a.m. Proceeds will be donated to Sheyenne VFW post #3696. When asked why folks should participate in the Freedom 5K, Sydney Ulrich of Transcript Publishing said, "Because it's a fun local event to support local veterans and current military personnel." This year's route will be the...
Get your trunks, swimsuits and pool noodles ready, the New Rockford pool is finally open! On Thursday, June 16, the New Rockford pool opened its doors following a complex process of getting the pool’s water quality up to snuff, which didn’t exactly go swimmingly. The original plan was to fill the pool with water once updates to the New Rockford Water Treatment Plant were up and running. But delays in that process forced Dennis Nybo, Park District Director, to change course. Instead, they filled...
Since breaking ground on Sept. 16 last year, work on a major expansion project for North American Bison, LLC (NAB) has been well underway. Passers by traveling on Highway 281 have likely seen the recent addition of wall paneling on the addition's west side. Mike Jacobson, Vice President of Operations, said it's one of the last steps before work on the interior can begin. "What we've done so far is put up all the structural steel, and then obviously you can see the wall paneling that's going...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Rain slows planting progress “The worst planting conditions of my lifetime.” That’s how one Foster County resident recently described the past two months. “What about the spring of 2020?” I asked. “We had corn in the field until March, and wet conditions prevented the planting of nearly 40 percent of the cropland in Foster County.” He thought for a second and then responded, “I think this s...
On Thursday, June 9, Carrington Post #25 and New Rockford Post #30 played the first of back-to-back matchups in Legion baseball, with the second coming on Monday, June 13. The Thursday game started about as well as the Black Sox could have hoped. After 4.5 innings they had a commanding 5-0 advantage, and seemed well on their way to a win over their rivals. That's when a debilitating, three-inning-long defensive breakdown plagued Post #30. Despite a relatively clean start defensively, the Black...
On Friday, June 10, the New Rockford Black Sox dominated Devils Lake in Babe Ruth baseball, winning by a score of 19-3 and triggering a 10-run mercy rule after five innings. The Black Sox’ deluge of offense began early and often. Led by Connor Knatterud, they scored three runs in both the first and second innings, followed by another four runs in the third. Meanwhile, starting pitcher Aaden Benson was holding his own on the mound. Devils Lake also scored in each of the first three innings, b...
Three local veterans recently returned from a "trip of a lifetime" to Dauphin Island, Alabama. Earlier this year, County Veterans Service Officer, Julie Shrock, began working with American Heroes in Action to facilitate an all-expenses-paid fishing trip for three local veterans. The lucky three, Leonard Duchscherer, David Karlsbraaten and Dale Rosenberg, left on May 15 and returned four days later having had one of the most memorable experiences of their lives. "I had the privilege of picking...
