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Trista Langley is obsessed with fashion. She loves boutiques, and she enjoys searching for truly unique items. There aren't many opportunities to shop here, so what's a girl in central North Dakota to do? Open her own boutique, of course! Langley plans to launch Beyond the Brand Boutique in New Rockford with a pop-up at Sarah Smith Warren Photography this week. Her mission is to create a unique shopping experience that is stylish and affordable without compromising quality. In pursuit of...
Representatives from CenDak appeared before the commission on Tuesday, Nov. 20 for a hearing on their application for property tax incentives. CenDak is building a 60-by-100 foot structure that will house a 2,200 ton fertilizer plant with 2-16 ton blenders on the south side. The facility will be built on land near the New Rockford Municipal Airport. The commissioners approved the tax incentive for a period of five years on the building, noting that CenDak would still pay taxes on the land. The i...
The twin mechanics hard at work in the shop at CenDak Cooperative were recognized on Tuesday, Nov. 20 as the November Employees of the Month. New Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce President Amy Wobbema tipped off Manager Ron Keller, who led her to the shop and got the attention of Craig and Ty Larson. Each earned $25 in Chamber bucks and a signed certificate. The two were surprised and grateful, but quickly returned to the job that was awaiting them- mounting and balancing tires for a...
Deer season was the theme, and kids were in the limelight at the fifth annual "Run for the Roses" Eagles Stick Horse Calcutta on Sat., Nov. 17. Generous community members held a rousing auction that brought the sale for each of the six horses over $1,000. There was a bit of a bidding war for the final horse, Miss Fire, which sold for $1,800. Then it was time to choose jockeys, and the youth in attendance were in high demand. The oldest jockey chosen to race was sixth-grader Kendrick Hopfauf....
Eddy County Sheriff Paul Lies reported Tuesday that individuals within the community are receiving calls from others claiming to work for the Social Security Administration and reporting there is fraud on individual accounts. The number they are calling from has been “spoofed” to look like the call is coming from the Social Security Administration. Spoofing is when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity. Anyone receiving a call from this number should not provide the...
North Dakota State Superintendent Kirsten Baesler said the results of North Dakota’s annual exams for English and mathematics will include new information to help students improve their learning, and assist parents in evaluating the academic progress of their children. The information is called Lexile and Quantile Frameworks. The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction administers a state assessment system aligned to the English Language Arts and Mathematics standards to students in grades 3-8 and 10. Presenting this data as part of t...
On Nov. 15, also known as National Rural Health Day, the Chartis Center for Rural Health and the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) recognize 18 North Dakota rural hospitals for the 2018 Performance Excellence Awards. The awards spotlight high achievement in the areas of quality, outcomes and patient perspective. The hospitals earning these awards also reflect top performance among all rural hospitals in the nation. CHI St. Alexius Carrington was recognized in all three catagories; quality, outcomes and patient...
Toys, winter clothing and pajamas wanted for children in need A Holiday Toy Drive sponsored by Student Council, FCCLA, FBLA, SADD, and Sources of Strength is being conducted now through December 5. They are accepting unopened toys for various ages and these donations will stay in the New Rockford-Sheyenne community. Winter clothing and pajamas are also accepted. They ask that you refrain from donating toy weapons of any kind. To donate, bring the toys to any of the advisors of the organizations listed above through Dec. 5, bring the toys to...
The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) Division of Medical Marijuana received final scores from the review panel tasked with evaluating and scoring complete dispensary applications. Two entities have been selected to move forward with the registration process. We-Mend LLC will be operating as Strive Life and will locate their facility in Grand Forks. HOFW, LLC (Harvest of Williston) will be located in Williston. “With this current selection, we now have four dispensary regions that have entities eligible for registration under the M...
UPCOMING EVENTS SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP Sunday, Nov. 25 from 6:30 - 8 p.m. at Latte Lobby, New Rockford. For more information please call Karen Omoth with any questions at 302-8800. Future meetings will be the fourth Sunday of the every month. BLOOD DRIVE AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH Thursday, Nov. 29, from 12:30 - 6 p.m., at First Lutheran Church, New Rockford, N.D. Please call Gail at 653-5859 to schedule an appointment. CHRISTMAS AT HOMEWOOD Saturday, Dec. 1 at 2:30 p.m., at the home of Tim and Becky Hager, 11116 40th St. S.E., Valley Ci...
It is open enrollment time for medical insurance, and for people having to shop in the individual insurance market; the choices are as confusing as ever. Television ads splashed over the airwaves as the midterm electioneering came to a close didn’t help much. By the end of the campaign it was hard to find any candidate – Democrat or Republican – who didn’t want to cover people with preexisting health conditions. The devil was in the details, though, and how politicians suggested people should be covered remained mostly a mystery. In Missour...
Two North Dakota State University students from New Rockford, N.D. were recognized for receiving scholarships for the 2018-19 academic year. Jacee Beth Engels, daughter of Jeff and Becky Engels, and Nicholas Hovey, son of James and Annette Hovey each received one of the 126 scholarships awarded at the 2018 Honors Day program hosted by the NDSU College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences on Sept. 21 in the Reineke Performing Arts Center's Festival Concert Hall. Engels, a senior majoring in...
One area football player stood head and shoulders above the rest, with the release of the All-Region 2 Team in the Nine-Man Football classification. New Rockford-Sheyenne's Teddy Allmaras was named the Senior Athlete of the Year for the region. It was impossible to ignore the stat lines from Allmaras, the Rockets' senior quarterback. The 5'11", 165-pound signal caller marched NR-S up and down the field to the tune of 2,240 yards passing and 35 touchdowns to just eight interceptions, and also rus...
Happy Thanksgiving Don Knutson of Phoenix, Ariz., called James Nelson one day this week. Doris Griffin spent an hour on Tuesday morning on a webinar on workplace safety. Topics covers accident reporting, basic work safety, drug use and other safety information. Doris also sat on the Election Board for the Oberon School Board election held on Tuesday. The official results are not available yet. Wednesday evening, Doris went to the Friends of Sully’s Hill meeting. Randy and Charlotte Simon attended several basketball games this week to support g...
Saturday, visitors and dinner guests at the Charlotte Koepplin home were Martin Koepplin and Aaron Koepplin, Kerigan, Carter and Chevelle. Saturday, found Jimmy Indergaard visiting at the Mervin Indergaard home. John and Kathleen Lee, Gary and Kathy Anderson, Margie Anderson and Ken and Denise Reis were among the many who attended funeral service for Gail Klumph Saturday at the First Congregational Church in New Rockford. Shelly and Kent Rigsby of Jamestown and Jane Sampson of Devils Lake also attended funeral service for Gail. The gals were...
On behalf of the Carrington Runnings store, manager Ken Hansen recently donated to the Breast Cancer Gas Card fund at CHI St. Alexius Health Carrington. The donation is the result of the annual Runnings Ladies Night held in October and will help purchase several $100 gas cards for CHI St. Alexius Health Carrington patients who must travel to a larger healthcare facility for breast cancer treatments....
Since its introduction in 2007, vaping has reached epidemic proportions in youth across the country. In North Dakota alone, 21 percent of high school students currently identify as a vaping product user (ND Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2017). According to the National Youth Tobacco Survey, the number of high school-age children using vaping products rose by more than 75 percent from 2017 to 2018. Vaping devices are not approved as a cessation aid by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are considered unsafe for youth. “Tobacco use among y...
Visitors and stoppers at the Shirley Packard home this week have been, Kim Johnson,Glenda Collier and Kevin Johnson. Monday, Shirley was among the ladies to attend the American Legion Auxiliary meeting at the Legion. Janet Laube was among the many New Rockford and area folks that attended funeral service for Gail Klumph Saturday at the First Congregational Church in New Rockford. Wednesday morning found Shirley Packard and Calvin in Carrington on business. In the afternoon Shirley was among the Kindred Sisters Bible Study group to meet at the...
Last Monday afternoon, Patti Clifton visited Beverly Olson and brought her some homemade goodies. Jan Loe and Barb Eversvik were in Bismarck over the weekend where Barb participated in the vendor show at the Events Center. It was a good show despite the snow! Date and time change: The Eddy County VFW Auxiliary will hold their annual potluck Christmas Party on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 5, at 2 p.m. at the clubhouse in Sheyenne. Come and enjoy an afternoon of visiting, games and lunch!...
"We lost it," exclaimed Little Jimmy, the only town elector with a computer now in his seventh year of online college with Budapest Institute. The Community Homeland Security Committee had just been called to order by Chair Ork Dorken and was listening to Treasurer Orville Jordan's annual report when Little Jimmy came through the door. "Lost what?" barked Old Sievert from the stuffed chair in the sunlight. "Is Dawg gone again?" "Amazon did not pick us for the big expansion," Little Jimmy...
While most of us think about November and December as the holiday season, for families that include a high school senior, it’s also college application season. As has been the case for over 50 years, those applications, turned in this winter, herald the arrival, next fall, of thousands of eager, bright and anxious 18-year-olds to college campus campuses across the nation. They say goodbye to friends and family and embark on a new adventure that, with the right support, will lead to a college diploma. In many ways, this is the image that most o...
As a member of the Task Force for Higher Education Governance, I would like to share some insight into the process that was used to develop the three-board governance model proposal. Unanimously, the 15-member Task Force agreed that a change in higher education governance in North Dakota was needed, whether it be substantial changes to the current one-board model, or something significantly different. The members of the Task Force were given the charge of “coming up with something significantly different.” We developed six goals. We wanted the...
When North Dakotans voted 80 years ago to create a single board to govern the state’s public colleges and universities, the world was still being introduced to the ballpoint pen. Oil had recently been discovered in Saudi Arabia. Non-stick Teflon had just been invented. And Superman made his first comic book appearance. Few could have predicted a fivefold increase in enrollment at North Dakota’s state-funded colleges and universities, from just under 8,000 students in 1938 to over 45,000 students today, or that the number of institutions wou...
Orlyn Dwaine Rosenberg, 77, Dent, Minn., died Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018. Memorial services were held at David-Donehower Funeral Home in Detroit Lakes, Minn., on Nov. 20, 2018 at 11 a.m. Orlyn was born July 26, 1941 in New Rockford, N.D. to Charles and June (Nibbe) Rosenberg. He was raised on their family farm near Grace City until he married Cheri Rost in 1963. Together they had four children making their home in West Fargo, N.D. In 2002 he married Mary (Reibe). He left the family farm in 1964 to...
Gail Dawn (Backman) Klumph, 62, died on Nov. 13, 2018 at Sanford Health in Bismarck, N.D. Funeral services were held Nov. 17 at the First Congregational Church, New Rockford, burial was at the Prairie Home Cemetery in New Rockford. Rev. Mindy Meier officiated and special music was provided by Kerstin Allmaras and Darlene Risovi. Casket bearers included: Matt LeBlanc, Luke Croegaert, Neil Backman, Bryan Hilbert, Jamie Allmaras and Sharon Hope. Gail was born on July 15, 1956 in New Rockford; the...
