Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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The 2022 District 7 girls' basketball tournament kicked off on Friday, Feb. 11 in the Maddock High School gymnasium with the New Rockford-Sheyenne Rockets versus the Harvey/Wells County Hornets. The Rockets came out of the gates on fire, with Kaiya O'Connor scoring a 3-pointer and a field goal, along with a 3-pointer from Kennedy Demester. H/WC senior Kalyn Keller scored seven points in the first quarter, to trail the Rockets by three. The Hornets weren't about to give up this win. Keller...
The boys' basketball season is rapidly approaching an end, and New Rockford-Sheyenne has faced a rough triad of games down the stretch. The three-game stretch began with a thrilling match versus the Rolette Comets on Thursday, Feb. 10. The Rockets' began the matchup well, and NR-S senior Nick Berglund wasted no time establishing his dominance. In combination with impressive baskets from Bennett Meier and DJ Mudgett, Berglund was able to lift NR-S to the lead after one quarter. The Comets,...
Carrington got eight of their 12 wrestlers qualified for the following week’s State B Individual Tournament in Fargo with a solid showing at the Region 2 meet in Walhalla Saturday, February 12. With a score of 183 points, the Cards finished third in the team standings behind host and meet champion Pembina Co. North and Central Cass, who won the Region 2 Dual tourney the weekend prior. Five champions were crowned for CHS at the northeast grappling outpost near the Canadian border, while two o...
The Rocket archery team dominated in the high school division at the Wilton Tournament on Saturday, Feb. 12. The high school team finished first in both the girls and boys team divisions, bringing home trophies. Six NR-S archers brought home individual medals from the bullseye division of the tournament. Seventh grader Layton Jacobson shot a 285, earning him first place in middle school boys and Top Overall Male Archer. Four medalists were high school archers. Hunter Genre was first among the...
Outdoor notes: *Ice is never completely safe. Avoid areas with vegetation, moving water, pressure ridges, and springs. Check conditions as you go along on the ice and don’t move around at night. *Remember to keep fish caught in 25 feet and deeper; they rarely survive coming up from deep depths. *Light goose conservation order hunting season now open. *Feb. 25 – 27: N.D. Taxidermy Assoc. Show, Ramkota Inn, Bismarck. *Feb. 28: Tree squirrel season closes. Tournaments: *Feb. 26: Alkaline Lake. Fis...
Through the magnification of the reading glasses which middle age now requires me to wear at the lure making desk, I caught sight of the hook point on the most recent in a series of streamer patterns I was tying for crappies. More accurately, it was the blunted end of what should have been a hook point. Taking the fly dressed with brightly-hued bucktail out of the vise, I held up my thumb for the scratch test, a confirmatory process where the business end of any lure leaves a slight white trail...
We have finally seen a bit of a warming trend up here in North Dakota. We have also seen some strong winds and major pressure changes along the way as well. All of these changes seem to shift the mood of the fish. Unfortunately, it usually means the fish get finicky. We have had a lot of ups and downs these past few days, especially on Devils Lake. The perch are there, but they are definitely negative. When you get one to bite however, it's usually on the large side! The problem is they are kind...
6 marks the 85th anniversary of the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act, more commonly known as the Pittman-Robertson Act. For hunters and conservationists, this anniversary stands as a testament to the power of the sportsman-conservation community and should fuel within us a sense of pride. Given the current state of politics in our country, it is easy to forget the many successes that we as sportsmen have had; not only in the conservation of our fish and wildlife resources but also in...
The final weeks of February are a crucial time for fish under the ice across the northern plains. It's at this point in the winter when dissolved oxygen levels are typically at their lowest and the risk for winterkill on smaller bodies of water increases. With heavy snow cover on lakes throughout the eastern half of North Dakota for much of the winter, agents of the North Dakota Game & Fish Department will begin their annual assessment of dissolved oxygen content on those at-risk waters in the...
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