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Crystal Herman, a 38-year-old Shakopee, Minn., woman, formerly of Warwick, N.D., has pleaded guilty to a AA felony charge of being an accomplice to murder in connection with the 2015 death of Amanda Engst. Herman appeared in court on Thursday, January 25, where she amended her not guilty plea to guilty pursuant to a plea agreement with the state. During the proceedings, Eddy County State's Attorney Travis Peterson outlined the course of events leading up to and following Engst's death on or...
With hundreds of cases reported in North Dakota alone each week, seasonal influenza is striking again. The season started early this year, as cases started to spike in North Dakota in mid-November. Whether this season's epidemic is now at its peak or still climbing remains to be seen. As of mid-January, every state in the continental U.S. was experiencing "widespread" flu activity. In the 13 years of the CDC's current flu-tracking system, "this is the first year we've had the entire continental...
Her contagious smile and compassionate nature brighten the front office of the New Rockford-Sheyenne School. Amy Benson, Office Manager at NR-S, was honored with the New Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce's Employee of the Month award for January. Benson, whose background is in the law field, spent nine years as a legal secretary before coming to NR-S School. The year and a half immediately prior, she served as the Wells County Assistant State's Attorney. "I love it here," Benson said with a wide...
Deputy Ward Hilger officially reported for duty with the Eddy County Sheriff's Department on December 18, after completing 12 weeks of training in Bismarck at the Law Enforcement Training Academy to attain the appropriate law enforcement licensure. The academy training combines classroom and hands-on training with practical scenarios. Hilger says that he has always been interested in law enforcement as a career. He grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana but had pursued other interests when he got...
Effective Thursday, January 25, CHI St. Alexius Health, Carrington along with its Medical Clinic and Urgent Care have implemented visitor restrictions due to the variety of current contagious illnesses. These restrictions will be in effect until further notice. The restrictions at CHI St. Alexius Health, Carrington allow for visitors who are immediate family members only who are over 18 years of age and advises healthy individuals to limit clinic visits when possible....
Jackson Brazil, a fifth grader at NR-S School, defeated nine of his fellow students in grades 4 - 8 at the Eddy County Geography Bee on Wednesday, January 24 at the Eddy County Courthouse. Students in each classroom competed against one another earlier in the month to determine which two would represent their class at the county competition. Brazil and Ava Peterson, a fourth grader, emerged as the two finalists after the preliminary rounds. Then, following several rounds where both answered...
Are you feeling lucky? Save the Date for “Deal or No Deal” Fundraiser Dinner & Game Show. Early details for this year’s “Deal or No Deal” fundraiser are out, with the date set for Saturday, March 10 at the New Rockford Golf Course. The annual St. Patty’s-themed game show will award $2000 in cash prizes, in addition to gift certificates and prizes from local businesses, Lucky Duck cash raffles, audience mini-games, and a full catered dinner. Tickets will become available in early February, and are limited to 200 seats. The signature fundraiser...
Kristi Frahm of the local New Rockford Dollars for Scholars attended the tenth annual North Dakota Dollars for Scholars Conference held in Fargo on Saturday, January 20. Chapter representatives learned about scholarship setup and enhancements, fundraising best practices, event planning and donor retention. For attending the conference, the New Rockford chapter received a $1,000 donation from Bank of North Dakota (BND). North Dakota Dollars for Scholars has 68 community chapters in the state....
BISMARCK, ND – Agricultural producers wanting to enhance current conservation efforts are encouraged to apply for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP). Through CSP, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) helps private landowners build their business while implementing conservation practices that help ensure the sustainability of their entire operation. NRCS plans to enroll up to 10 million acres in CSP in 2018. While applications for CSP are accepted year round, applications must be received by March 2, 2018 to be con...
One of the selling points for the tax bill President Trump signed into law a few weeks ago is that it will spur job growth because corporations will use money they otherwise would have paid in taxes to hire more workers. But for rural areas and small towns, one provision of the new law may result in the closure of one of their biggest employers– their hospital. Rural hospitals in general operate on much thinner margins than most big city hospitals, margins so thin that dozens have been forced t...
University of Jamestown has announced the Dean's List for the Fall Semester of 2017. The following students have met the academic requirements needed to be named to the list from New Rockford, N.D.: Rebecca Allmaras, Cassidy Bjerke, Braxton Hewitt, Adrianna Klocke and Jewel Williams. The University of Jamestown was established in 1883 and is ranked as a top tier regional school in US News and World Report and a top Midwestern school in The Princeton Review. The school features development of the whole person through its distinctive Journey t...
Lake Region State College has released its honor lists for Fall 2017. Students who maintained a 4.00 grade point average are named to the President’s list. Students who maintained high academic standings between 3.25 and 4.00 are named to the Dean’s list. The following students were named to the LRSC President’s List: Maara Nelson, Carrington; Emma Rose Poehls, Tolna; Carson Quam, McHenry; Tyrus Smith, Sheyenne....
Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday found Jimmy Indergaard visiting his mother, Esther, at her apartment at Golden Acres Estates. Wednesday afternoon, Margie Anderson was a visitor and coffee guest at the Charlotte Koepplin home. Cindy Longnecker of Boise, Idaho gave Ervin Longnecker a call recently, just to check up on the North Dakota weather. Last Saturday Jimmy Indergaard was a visitor and dinner guest at the Mervin and Frances Indergaard home. Margie Anderson and Gary and Kathy Anderson and Eric and Lisa Longnecker were among those...
Jeff and Denise Labrensz supported the SNR Baseball hotdish and pie supper on January 16 at the NR-S school lunchroom. Afterwards, they watched the girls basketball game against Lakota. Whist was played at Card Club last Thursday afternoon at the Sheyenne Senior Center. Attending were hostess Kathy Albrecht, Barb Eversvik, Rhoda Stenberg, Mary Ellen Rue and Janet Jordre. Liz Anderson won the Traveling prize. Jan Loe scored Hi and Patti Clifton, Lo. Friday evening, Cindy Hegland and Patti Clifton had supper at the New Rockford Golf Club....
New Rockford and area folks extrend sympathy to the families of Byron Langley, Frank Langley and Eileen Bush. Monday visitors at the home of Martin and Eloise Lucht, prior to and after dental appointments in New Rockford, were Heidi Schneider, Caleb and Callie of Devils Lake. Saturday, Curtis and Marti Larson and Olivia and Marion Larson drove to Crary where they enjoyed a visit at the Kent and Val Larsen home. Kent and Val are packing up and will soon be moving to Dickinson. Curtis, Marti, Olivia and Marion also enjoyed a visit at the Brad...
Lester Roberts attended the Lake Region Roundup in Devils Lake. Wednesday, Lester went to Minnewaukan on business. Chad Getscher visited Lester and Jackie Wednesday evening. Roger Roberts was a Saturday visitor at Lester and Jackie’s. Dave and Linda Madson visited the Roberts’ on Sunday afternoon. John and Janice Hager attended the FourWinds-Minnewaukan vs. New Rockford-Sheyenne boys basketball game in New Rockford Monday evening. Thursday evening, the Hagers were in New Rockford to take in the New Rockford-Sheyenne vs. North Star basket...
Now that the tax reform legislation has been passed, adding one trillion to the national debt, the dependent populations in society can expect that 2018 will bring an onslaught of cutbacks in programs created to help the helpless. Programs for dependents include, among others: Medicaid, Medicare, handicapped, food stamps, nursing homes, rural hospitals, addict support services, rehabilitation of all kinds and a wide range of helpful subsidies. Champions of the “have nots” will be told that cut...
Let’s start with something we’re not supposed to talk about, shall we? The most recent* shootings in America: A 15-year-old boy with a handgun killed 2 students and wounded 17 others at a high school in Benton, Kentucky. One of the injured students willlikely need his arm amputated. The day before that, a 16-year-old boy with a handgun shot a 15-year-old girl at a high school in Texas. *I put an asterisk next to “most recent” above, because in the time between me writing this and you reading...
My back is sore from shoveling snow - and it’s the federal government’s fault. Maybe I’d better explain. We’ve been getting lots of snow in Pittsburgh of late. When it snows, I need to clear two driveways: mine, which is 50 yards long, and my father’s, which is almost as big. Since my father is having trouble with his knees, I gave him my magnificent new Toro snowblower; it’s a convenience for me to have it in his garage, so I can clear his driveway in fewer than 15 minutes. I purchased a...
Teresa Jo Nathan, 38, Valley City, North Dakota, passed away on Thursday, January 18, 2018 at Sanford on Broadway in Fargo, ND. Funeral services were held at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Valley City, on Tuesday, January 23. Internment will be at Hillside Cemetery, Valley City, in the spring. Memorials may be directed to Valley City State Foundation, where an endowment scholarship has been established. Teresa was born to Brenda and Timothy Dooher on October 23, 1979 in Jamestown, ND. She...
Francis Edward Langley, age 94, of Sheyenne, ND, passed away Wednesday, January 17, 2018. The funeral service was held Tuesday, January 23, 2018, at Warwick Lutheran Church in Warwick, ND. Rev. Jeff Kapelle officiated. Special music was provided by Jared Kolles and Betty Ann Bina. Casket bearers were Chad Nagel, Paul Nagel, Alan Nagel, Matt Hanson, Justin Langley, Jared Langley, Josh Langley and Jacob Langley. Frank was born on September 22, 1923, the son of James Edward Langley and Olga Hulda...
During Jesus’ ministry, the world was not a fun place to live. The Roman government occupied the nation, Herod was an ignorant, evil king, and Pontius Pilate wasn’t the thoughtful leader they so longed for. The first disciples were fishermen, working day and night, hard labor, to barely scrape by. Jesus passes by them, and says, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.” They drop their nets and follow. It all seems sort of easy, but we know differently. The disciples had no charmed existence, and the person they followed ended up bein...
On June 1-2, 1901, painter and paperhanger John Anderson visited Carrington. On June 1-3, J.W. Lahart was in Minneapolis on business. On Sunday, June 2, Jack Cain went to Ft. Totten. Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Hester, Miss Nell Hester, and Miss Nellie Davidson visited Carrington. R.R. Woodward, his mother Phoebe Woodward, and Miss Lizzie Bond of Inkster, ND, picnicked at Rock’s [Woodward?] farm near Sheyenne. New Rockford principal Prof. E.R. Thomas left for a summer in Des Moines, Iowa, on June 3. N...
This job of mine isn’t easy sometimes. I’ve been looking all week for a “good in things” story to tell and was getting a little nervous when Thursday morning came, and I still didn’t have anything. Thursday is the day we go to press, you know. I did get a chance to do some photography when the weather conditions left us with beautifully frosted trees. I kept forgetting to change the settings on the camera, though, and was switching from close-ups to landscapes. That didn’t work out so well for...
January 29 - The last lynching The last illegal execution in North Dakota happened in Schaefer. On this date in 1931 when a mob seized a prisoner named Charles Bannon and lynched him a half mile from the jail. About a year earlier, in February, people had begun to notice that they hadn’t seen the Albert Haven family around. Twenty-two year-old Bannon had just started working on the Haven farm, and when people asked him about the family, he said the Havens had gone to Oregon and that he was now renting the place. Friends thought it was s...
