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On Tuesday, March 28, local volunteers descended upon Jim "Legion" Johnson Memorial Field armed with their heavy snow-removal equipment. The volunteers worked throughout the morning to clear the snow from the baseball diamond ahead of the baseball season's scheduled start in early April. Lee Simon drove his tractor from his farm 33 miles away to volunteer his time clearing off the baseball diamond. Also assisting in hopes of saving spring baseball were Reed Weisenburger, Bruce Hirchert, Bryan...
The Community Easter Egg Hunt is sponsored by the New Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce... Full story
On Monday, March 27, the Eddy County landowner whose verbal tirade against a group of hunters went viral pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and interference with rights of hunters. The videotaped altercation shows Jeffrey Erman berating the group of hunters near his land in eastern Eddy County, arguing they were touching his property and that they'd ruined his hunting plans for that morning. The video has amassed nearly 3 million views on YouTube. Erman originally pleaded not guilty to...
On Wednesday, March 29, the New Rockford-Sheyenne School Board held a special meeting with only one item on the agenda – discussion of music staffing. Potentially letting go of one of the district’s two music teachers had been brought up at the board’s regular meeting on Monday, March 13, prompting dozens to appear in person, where they expressed their disapproval of the idea and their support for the NR-S music program. The potential of reducing the music program by one full-time teacher was p...
April 3-9 is City Government Week, an opportunity for city leaders and staff, as well as the public they serve, to recognize the role local government plays in their community. So this week, city officials in New Rockford are putting together a few events to celebrate the work being done for their city and to engage children in their local government – beginning with a coloring contest. Starting today, the City of New Rockford has coloring pages at city hall for parents and kids to pick up. Once...
Some say accurate free-throw shooting is an art. If that's true, then Kalleigh Engels is an artist. After a stellar performance at the state free throw championship, Engels – daughter of Jackie and Jacob Engels – was named this year's 9-year-old girls' Knights of Columbus State Free Throw Champion of North Dakota. The Knights of Columbus free throw championship first began in 1972, and has been providing boys and girls ages nine through 14 with an athletic outlet while encouraging the values of...
During the entire month of March, the air temperature did not get above 32 degrees in Carrington, according to data from the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network (NDAWN). The normal maximum air temperature for March in Carrington is 36 degrees, four degrees warmer than the highest temperature on record for this March. The normal maximum air temperature is calculated by averaging the maximum air temperatures for the same month from the past 30 years, 1991-2020. The average soil temperature...
The Warwick High School Careers Class recently went to Bakers Dozen bakery in New Rockford to experience. Owners John and Kelly McKnight first came to Warwick to tell the students how the bakery worked and then invited them to come and see it firsthand....
Tonya Hetzler from the Consumer Protection Division of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office will present “Don’t Get Scammed.” Learn about current scams and what you and your loved ones can do to avoid becoming a victim. This event, sponsored by Farmers & Merchants Bank of ND and the Nelson County Sheriff’s Department, is free to the public and will be held at the following times. Refreshments provided. • Monday, April 17, 7 p.m. at Nelson County Courthouse, Lakota. • Tuesday, April 18, 10 a.m. at Friends and Neighbors Cafe, Tolna. • Tues...
New Rockford-Sheyenne High School Principal Avolt Baumbach recognized the following students for making the Honor Rolls for the third quarter of the 2022-23 school year. High School (HS) A Honor Roll 12th Grade: Taylor Anderson, Hallie Brown, Kyria Dockter, Emma Duda, Mark McDowell, Madisen Myhre and Trevor Waldo. 11th Grade: Kate Allmaras, Claire Becker, Kelsie Belquist, Keaton Cudworth, Connor Knatterud, Kotone Maeda, Lucy Meier, Trysta Thumb and Lora Wobbema. 10th Grade: Ava Bullinger, Addysen Fandrich, Bailey Jacobson, Abigail Nystrom,...
Third grade students at New Rockford-Sheyenne School were asked: “Why is your city great? What makes it special?” and “What would you do to improve your city if you were mayor?” All the essays were submitted to the North Dakota League of Cities’ If I Were Mayor Essay Contest 2023. Winners will be announced during City Government Week. Due to space limitations, only some of the student essays are printed here. The rest can be found on our website: www.newrockfordtranscript.com Arilynn Gehrtz My city is great because we have so many great peo...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. County caravan rescues stranded motorists On Saturday, March 11, two motorists became stranded north of Fessenden in the middle of a blizzard. The call to the sheriff’s department came in around mid-morning, notifying that two vehicles had become stuck – one had lost power and the other became stuck in a snowdrift as it attempted to assist the first. The lack of power in the first vehic...
It’s day 52. The Senate still has 180 House bills to hear on the floor, while the House has 137 Senate bills remaining to be heard. Conference committees (three members from each chamber) should begin work by the end of the week. The goal, at least in the Senate, is to finish no later than day 77. This allows the Legislative Branch to call itself back without the Governor’s approval. The most likely reason would be to override the Governor’s veto should he do that right after we leave town. We are working hard to get anything that we belie...
Brief stopper at the Charlotte Koepplin home on Monday morning was Aaron Koepplin. Afternoon found Charlotte taking care of medical business in Carrington. Evening, Cory and Katie Jorgensen along with Harrison were visitors taking care of Circle Trail Riders business. Jimmy Indergaard enjoyed supper and watching boys’ basketball with Andy and Ruth Braaten at the Braaten home on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Brief visitor Sunday evening at the Margie Anderson home was her brother Glen Cudworth. Afternoon visitors were David and Karen A...
Peter and Patti Larson recently returned from a trip to Norway and Sweden. They met up with their daughters, Joanna and Sandra, in Bergen, Norway on March 2. The picturesque harbor, beautifully preserved wooden houses on the steep hillsides and a stone fortress, standing proud since the Middle Ages, were the first sights they saw after the overnight flight from Grand Forks through Minneapolis and Amsterdam. Sightseeing on a train ride to Flam on Friday included Norwegian countryside, ski slopes, frozen waterfalls and fjords. Lots of slate...
Last Tuesday morning brief visitor at the Candy Jensen home was her brother, Rick Koepplin, and afternoon visitors were Brenda Thurin and Jazzy dog from Devils Lake. Last Sunday evening, Roger Topp enjoyed a visit from Dale and Diane Rosenberg bringing him a treat of torsk and lefse from the torsk supper served by the VFW in Sheyenne. Saturday, surprise visitors of Janet Laube and YipYip were grandson Travis Laube and friend Missy of Fargo. Travis ran some errands for Gramma. Janet was also pleased to hear from grandson Scott Laube from his hom...
It’s City Government Week. In the Transcript we are running essays written by third graders at New Rockford-Sheyenne School. The topic is “If I Were Mayor” and each student had the opportunity to write about what makes their city great and what they would do if they were mayor for a day. In honor of City Government Week, I decided to write the same essay and print it here as my column. So, here it is, folks! If I were mayor, I’d never hold meetings on Wednesday afternoons or Thursday morning...
The sun is shining today and Spring is upon us. Such days remind me still of the excitement I knew when I turned 16 in April and was finally able to get my driver's license – a wondrous rite of passage fewer and fewer teens choose to experience today. According to a 2019 article in The Wall Street Journal, in the 1980s half of all 16-year-olds were driving. But by 2020 it was just 25 percent. Why? Driving tests began getting stricter and more challenging in many states in the mid-1990s – tho...
Former President Donald Trump has said he expects to be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury any day now. Although widely anticipated, there is no certainty that he will be indicted by grand jurors in New York or, for that matter, by citizens serving on grand juries in Washington or Atlanta, led by prosecutors examining, respectively, his potential obstruction of justice of a federal investigation involving the “Mar-a-Lago Papers” or his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. Trump’s supporters in Congress and those...
Block 2 in St. John’s Cemetery had a lengthy list of unmarked graves in the December 2021 Transcript with 25 names. The list included Peter Butler, Alex Mathews 1940, Leslie Wenzel, Lily Trudeau, Pete Trudeau, Bernard Sullivan 1998, Thomas Gamroth 1981, Alex McEachern, Mervin lndergaard 1992, R. lndergaard, Martin Gross, J.J. Sullivan, George Goldade, Mike Hartman, Toreigner Cruk, Rose Romanoski, S. Boven, Anton Dietz, John Coping, Ray Schanhaar, Werlien Kurback, Emma Dafoe, Antoni Jujawa, J. Pat Murphy and Frank Kuntz. Block 2 has a...
God’s offer for everyone to accept His salvation is the greatest gesture of compassion and grace the world has ever known. However, for those who reject His invitation, as the rich young ruler did, choosing to embrace the default and ignoring the divine will be the most devastating decision a person will ever make. The image of a red devil with a pitchfork is not cute or a joke and neither is the holiness of God who has always demanded honor, reverence and respect. “The fear of the Lord is the...
I like canoeing. I used to go to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota before I moved further away but even today, I enjoy jumping in the James River with my canoe and a paddle. If you’ve never canoed before, perhaps someday I can give you a lesson. As you learn, you’ll notice something odd: good canoeists paddle on both sides. Perhaps that seems inefficient to you. You think “joe, doesn’t it make more sense for you to paddle on one side, and the front man (usually my wife) to paddle on the other side?” Logically, that does make sense, but in pr...
There are many elements involved in keeping a museum. When I first began offering my archival skills to the Eddy County Museum, my primary task was to document each artifact and enter it into a spreadsheet database. With more than 3,000 artifacts on display, it was a daunting task. However it had been attempted before, in a notebook, years before computers and digital spreadsheets were accessible. Elvera Johnson had begun lists of items that resided in the schoolhouse. If you recall, the...
The Nov. 10, 1905, “Transcript” listed the New Rockford School students neither tardy nor absent during the second month of school: First Grade: Bessie Bennett, Hugh Brownell, Ralph Brownell, Lorina Bucklin, Sadie Claren, Perry Goss, Willie Kennedy, Leo Leonard, Russell Maxwell, Ruth Maxwell, Alice O’Connor, Lyle Prader, Bertha Wenz, Roy Wilson. Second Grade: Ruth Aldrich, George Brown, Edith Carlson, Harvey Clark, Anna Foose, Pearl Foose, Kenneth Gardner, Picie Hylton, John Johns, Ellen Kenne...
Dear Savvy Senior, As a 68-year-old retiree, I’m interested in finding a fun part-time job that can occupy some of my time and generate a little extra income. Can you write a column on low-stress part-time jobs that are popular among retirees? Part-Time Retiree Dear Retiree, Working part-time in retirement can be a terrific way to occupy your time and earn some extra income. The key, however, is finding the right gig that’s fun and satisfying for you. While there are literally hundreds of dif...
