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Following a redistricting process that saw their home district eliminated, District 23 representatives Bill Devlin and Don Vigesaa have announced their future plans. Rep. Devlin, a 20-year veteran of the N.D. Legislature and former Speaker of the House, has announced his retirement from the legislature once his current term expires on Nov. 30. Rep. Vigesaa, meanwhile, has announced his intention to run for the House of Representatives in District 29. Late last year, a new redistricting map was...
Two seats on the New Rockford City Commission and three seats on the City Park Board will be up for grabs during this summer’s elections. Becki Schumacher, New Rockford City Auditor, informed the Transcript on Tuesday that the four-year terms of City Commissioners Ryan Hager and Jim Belquist expire this year. On the City Park Board, meanwhile, the four-year terms of Jackie Engels, Elliot Belquist and Reed Weisenburger are also due to expire. Citizens interested in running for any one of these p...
February and Valentine's Day are fast approaching, which means it’s nearly time to support our local first responders during the annual Giving Hearts Day. Giving Hearts Day is a 24-hour fundraising event for charities in North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota, and for the third year running, the Community Ambulance Service of New Rockford (CASNR) is participating. This year, Giving Hearts Day falls on Thursday, Feb. 10, and CASNR’s fundraising goal is simply to raise more money than last yea...
Not many people have devoted more time to serving local farmers than Jimmy Bichler has, and it hasn't gone unnoticed. Bichler, a 30-year veteran of the Fessenden Co-op, has been selected as the Chamber's Employee of the Month for January. Nominated for this honor by Nyle Myhre, the Chamber believed it was high time to honor Bichler for his faithful and skillful service to the rural community in and around New Rockford. Fessenden Co-op, a farmer-owned and operated cooperative, brands itself as a...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Cass County Deputies arrest three in Horace At roughly 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 11, Cass County deputies arrested three individuals in Horace, N.D. after a resident called the police to report suspicious activity at a rural Horace address. The caller was able to give police a vehicle description and last known direction of travel. After conducting a traffic stop on the vehicle and doing a...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets suffered another stinging defeat on Tuesday, as the Harvey/Wells County Hornets weathered a fierce comeback attempt to win 55-49. The first quarter of Tuesday's game looked like many of the Rockets' recent games this season - turnover, fast break the other way, easy points for them, and repeat. By the end of the first quarter, the Hornets had established a double-digit lead. But that was before NR-S senior Kaden Jensen sank a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to narrow t...
It's that time of year again - New Rockford-Sheyenne's archers are returning to the firing line, and it's already shaping up to be a successful season. On Saturday, Jan. 22, at their first tournament of the year in Kensal, NR-S archers scored a total of 3,158 points, more than any other team at the tournament. Individual standouts were plentiful, with Hunter Genre finishing second among high school boys, and Layton Jacobson finishing first in the middle school boys' rankings. For the girls,...
After being closed for nearly two years, the sounds of laughter, rumbling bowling balls and toppling pins may soon return to the Wonder Lanes bowling alley. Wonder Lanes' new proprietor, Andrew Tillman-Saucier, told the Transcript on Monday that he hopes to hold a grand opening for the bowling alley as soon as February. When the first bowlers finally arrive, they'll enjoy the expansive renovations that have taken place over the past year. The New Rockford Area Betterment Corporation announced...
Eddy County is scheduled to have seven positions up for election this year, and the deadline for submitting petitions is fast approaching. On Tuesday, June 14, residents will be asked to vote on the following positions in Eddy County: • Commissioner - currently occupied by Dave Gehrtz • Commissioner - currently occupied by Neal Rud • Auditor - currently occupied by Patty Williams • Treasurer - currently occupied by Kathy Anderson • Sheriff - currently occupied by Paul Lies • State’s Att...
Last week, farmers and ranchers from across the country attended a two-day-long feedlot school hosted by the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center (CREC). The CREC has been hosting the annual event for more than two decades, with the first one taking place in 1996. Karl Hoppe, CREC's Extension Livestock Systems Specialist, told the Transcript on Tuesday that the school is helping to promote more cattle feeding in North Dakota. "Cattle feeding requires a lot of inputs and creates a lot of...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Well pad explodes, shakes nearby Grenora Folks living in the Grenora, N.D. area got an early wakeup call Monday, Jan. 10, when oil tanks exploded shortly before 6 a.m. “It shook windows in town,” said Grenora Fire Chief Justin Hanson. Hanson added that there were no reports of injuries as a result of either the explosion, or its effects in nearby Grenora. The Stout 2917-IBH well in Ferti...
On Monday, Jan. 17, the New Rockford Sheyenne-Rockets took to the court for the first time in 2022, and it wasn't pretty. Due to weather, NR-S had two District 7 matchups postponed which would have occurred before Monday night's game. Instead, the Rockets' District 7 opener would come against the undefeated Four Winds/Minnewauken Indians. The game got off to a relatively competitive start, as NR-S matched the Indians' intensity and energy level in the opening minutes. NR-S senior Nick Berglund...
After months of searching for a successor to Kathy Steinbach, who had been director of the Eddy County Housing Authority (ECHA) since June 2018, the county’s housing authority is finally under new management. On Dec. 7, 2021, the Great Plains Housing Authority (GPHA) was officially contracted to manage the ECHA for most of 2022, and potentially longer. Based out of Jamestown, the GPHA is a quasi-governmental agency that operates the housing authorities in seven nearby counties, including W...
With the January 1 deadline for withdrawal having come and gone, the New Rockford-Sheyenne school district will retain the services of the East Central Special Education Unit (East Central) for at least another year. At their regular meeting on Monday, Jan. 10, New Rockford-Sheyenne school board members discussed mediation options between themselves and East Central. School Board Vice President Mike Jacobson began the meeting by reading a statement on behalf of the NR-S school board. “In regards...
As fall gave way to heaps of snow and frigid temperatures in Eddy County, discussions centered around street improvements, special education, and much more. Below are some of the Transcript’s most interesting headlines from September to December 2021. Construction commences at North American Bison After four years of planning and waiting, North American Bison, LLC broke ground and moved forward with a major expansion project on Sept. 16 as the entire staff of their New Rockford plant par...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Watford man charged with Gross Sexual Imposition Having been charged with Gross Sexual Imposition - forced, a Class AA felony, Raul Martinez-Ramirez’s appearance bond was set at $150,000 on Dec. 22. According to documents filed in the Northwest District Court in Watford City, police responded to a possible domestic and sexual assault call from the Watford City Hotel on Dec. 21. The female vi...
At the Eddy County Commission meeting on Jan. 4, tense discussions broke out surrounding an official request that commissioners require a hydrology study for Monty Schaefer’s proposed alterations to the Rosefield Dam. At their regular meeting in October, Schaefer told Eddy County commissioners that he plans to extend the spillway by 40 feet and lower it by six inches. At the time, Schaefer argued that these changes would effectively double the capacity for water flowing through the spillway, t...
The spring and summer of 2021 brought both triumph and tribulation. Amidst fire and drought, local people were recognized for their accomplishments. This week’s installment features headlines from May to August. Sheyenne Fire and 911 review procedures to improve response Several agency representatives gathered on Thursday, May 13, at Ostby Hall to review and discuss the events of March 14, when an early Sunday blaze destroyed the Sheyenne home of Ryan and Kristie Genre. Rob Johnson and Sta...
Since COVID-19 first emerged in the spring of 2020, the nation's educators and their students have been among the hardest hit by the pandemic. But, as it has for so many, the pandemic is offering lessons that even teachers are learning from. In the past two years, technology and access to the internet have become more important than ever, and when public schools were forced into distance learning during the 2019-20 school year, they were absolutely essential. Kent Brown, the technology...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Father gets 2.5 years, children get probation for drug-related crimes The leader of a drug distribution ring left the Rolette County Courthouse last week en route to the North Dakota Department of Corrections in Bismarck. District Court Judge Anthony Benson sentenced Larry Guilbert to two-and-a-half years in the facility as part of a plea deal. The agreement mandated that Guilbert publicly a...
On Tuesday, Dec. 28, the Central Cass Squirrels ran circles around the New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets in Casselton, sending the Rockets home with a devastating 82-22 defeat. The scoring began early and often for Central Cass as they methodically established an impressive lead. Most of their scoring in the first quarter came from inside the paint, and their balanced attack made clear that they were in full control. By the end of the first quarter, seven Central Cass Squirrels had contributed to...
COVID-19’s most transmissible variant yet, Omicron, has arrived just in time for winter, which has long been the most transmissible season for such viruses. It seems like a perfect storm of ‘wrong place, wrong time’, and it’s already leading to event cancellations and overflowing hospitals. Countries around the world attempted to mitigate Omicron’s spread with travel restrictions, but Omicron was too fast. In a matter of weeks, it became the dominant variant in the United States and is spread...
This time last year, who would have thought that 2021 would become just as eventful as the year before. With a new administration, more than 800,000 dead from COVID-19, and unprecedented weather events, there’s no doubt that our ancestors will be studying these times for decades to come. But that’s only the large-scale view. Here in Eddy County, the year was filled with exciting news of a more “firsthand” nature. As we look ahead to 2022, the Transcript will be publishing some of its most me...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Linner sentenced to life without parole If there was any doubt how long Jonathan Linner, formerly of Oakwood/Grafton, would serve in prison for his Aug. 12 conviction of continuous sexual abuse of a minor, Northeast District Judge Barb Whelan put it to rest Dec. 15 in the Walsh County Courthouse at his sentencing hearing, executing the maximum punishment for a AA felony - life in prison with...
On Tuesday, Dec. 21, the New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets won their home opener against the Griggs-Midkota Titans by a score of 55-48. Having been on the road all season, and on the losing end of multiple nail-biters, the Rockets were just 1-4 entering their matchup with the Titans. It became clear on Tuesday, however, that NR-S would be doing things a little differently in front of their home crowd - and it worked. Bennett Meier, DJ Mudgett and Luke Yri all had extended minutes off the bench, and...
