Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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Over the last year, the pandemic has given people a small glimpse of the vital role of EMS professionals. The sacrifice and dedication of EMTs, paramedics and other EMS practitioners has rightfully earned them admiration and gratitude in their communities. Calling emergency medical staff heroes sometimes obscures the fact that-behind those masks-are people who, every day, take on many crucial roles: Healthcare professional. Emergency manager. Social worker. Crisis counselor. Consoler....
The Community Ambulance Service of New Rockford has provided emergency medical services to the community for 50 years. Work began in 1970, when 18 firemen attended Advanced First Aid classes and an Ambulance Corporation was started within the Fire Department. Those completing the class in March of 1971 included Celester Risovi, Marty Lucht, Gary Risovi, Robert Wright, David Simon, Mel Boyer, Pat Caulfield, John Wishart, Vic Risovi, George Guler, Fred Miller, Darwyn Kanzelman, Dennis Larson, Gord...
A six-year member of Community Ambulance Service of New Rockford, Judge James Hovey, was recently recognized for his volunteer service. Foster County State's Attorney Kara Brinster nominated Hovey for the Southeast Judicial District Bar Association Community Service Award. Members choose an individual to nominate at their annual meeting. Hovey joined the local ambulance service in 2015 and took the EMT class. He volunteers, on average, 1,200 hours per year. He is on call for the ambulance many weekends, covering five shifts of pager duty from...
Sometimes working through the archives at the Eddy County Museum is a bit like putting together a puzzle. Just as it is with puzzles, sometimes an answer seems to pop out. This week in particular, something interesting happened- I finally started to put faces with the names and places of long ago. This story began when I took an extra moment to pause before leaving the Dodd's School House, and admired the collection of shoes dating back a century or more. One pair of women's hunting boo...
On Feb. 2, 1904, Julius Ponto of rural Sheyenne was in Devils Lake at the U.S. Land Office. He had recently been discharged from a Fargo hospital, where he had been confined for a year after a serious head operation. During his absence someone had contested his homestead land, so Ponto was in Devils Lake to prove his claim. That evening, the Commercial Association met in the law offices of C.J. Maddux. Prof. Vernon P. Squires of UND, lectured in the Opera House on “American War Songs and B...
No doctrine has posed a greater threat to the U.S. Constitution than the flawed assertion of state sovereignty. It represented the extreme versions of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, that asserted the authority of states to nullify federal laws, which would have eviscerated the Supremacy Clause and turned the Constitution on its head. It fueled the secession of southern states from the Union, and plunged the nation into the Civil War. And, it has been invoked to deny enforcement of the Bill of the Rights and 14th Amendment...
Dear Savvy Senior, Is there an easy way to figure out how much I will need to save for retirement? My wife and I are both in our late fifties and want to figure out about how much we’ll need in order to retire comfortably. Ready to Retire Dear Ready, How much money you need to retire comfortably is a great question that all working adults should ask themselves. Unfortunately, far too few ever bother thinking about it. But calculating an approximate amount of how much you’ll need to have sav...
We buzzed along the inside of the breakline, my buddy Kevin and I, watching the rhythmic ticking of the tips of the trolling rods strung out alongside his Alumacraft, with a second eye toward the graph behind the console he was manning, watching for the blips and arcs, which symbolized the post-spawn walleyes lurking below. In the blue-green waters of the Missouri River, our firetiger crankbaits bumped and scraped along the beige bottom as things got shallower, and then swung back to their...
There's an encounter each spring that reminds me of how lucky we are to have ugly fish. They don't glisten in gold like walleyes, sparkle with silver like a white bass, or even bring up the base of the podium like a smallmouth bass bedecked in bronze. Instead, they fight hard, provide fast action, and often remind us of the basics of angling and where many of us got our start. These not so pretty fish also reinforce the idea that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. Whether it's a carp...
Stocked trout don't take long to acclimate to their surroundings. Within a week or two of the recent dumps of rainbows and browns across the state, these fish spread out and stalk the water column for just about anything edible. Whether that's the first rising midge populations of the year, small nymphs on the bottom, or other prey items, trout find most of what they need below the surface. On those still evenings early on as they pick off rising insects, my all means, have a few dry flies at...
