Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 29
On Tuesday, Nov. 28, a coordinated scam was launched on parishioners of the First Lutheran Church in New Rockford. Unfortunately, at least one of those parishioners fell victim to the scam, losing a total of $400. The scammer or scammers launched their assault at around noon on Tuesday with a simple text message, which appeared to be from pastor Amy Kippen. The message began by addressing the target by name, such as the one sent to Katie Jorgensen, office administrator for the First Lutheran...
Otter Tail Power Company has announced their intention to increase their electrical rates. On November 2, they submitted an application with the N.D. Public Service Commission (PSC), starting a nearly year-long process often referred to as a “rate case.” The PSC will now review the costs Otter Tail incurs to provide its customers with electricity, and then determine the appropriate prices for the use of those services. “This independent, public process helps ensure transparency and fair rates fo...
Hunting season is officially in full swing, and for the N.D. Game and Fish Department that means a busy schedule of ensuring our lands remain a safe and healthy hunting environment, both now and into the future. Recently, one out-of-state hunter was caught allegedly using illegal hunting practices here in Eddy County. The hunter, Tyler Brick of Minnesota, was charged with three separate infractions, including “surreptitious intrusion or interference with privacy – wildlife photography,” as well...
DPRCA's "The Christmas Show" opened Friday at the Old Church Theatre in New Rockford. Performances run through Sunday, Dec. 17. Transcript publisher Amy Wobbema captured scenes from the show during the dress rehearsal on Wednesday, and her review is printed on page A4....
UPDATED November 30, 2023 On Wednesday, Nov. 29, the Superintendent of the Midkota Public School District was charged with several felonies for the possession of child pornography. Ryan Baron, also the school district's high school principal, was arrested on Tuesday, Nov. 28 and officially charged the next morning with five counts of "possession of certain materials prohibited," each a Class C felony. According to a press release from the Griggs County Sheriff's Office, Baron was arrested...
As the weather outside becomes frightful, our favorite sports move inside – and that means the start of basketball season is upon us. However, this years’ basketball season is set to look quite a bit different than years past, as a number of rule changes were made and a three-class system returns for the 2023-24 season for the first time in nearly 60 years. For starters, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) has approved several rule changes this season regarding fou...
The Garrison Diversion Conservancy District’s (Garrison Diversion) Recreation Committee recently met and awarded matching recreation grants to 21 projects, totaling $692,521. “Garrison Diversion’s Matching Recreation Grant Program is an immeasurable benefit for our member counties. We enjoy assisting communities with bringing their projects to life and adding to their activity opportunities,” says committee Chairman Bruce Klein. The following projects received Matching Recreation Grant funds in the fall of 2023: • Carrington Park District -...
Northern Plains Electric and Basin Electric Power Cooperatives are offering a $1,000 scholarship to a dependent of a member of Northern Plains Electric for the 2024-2025 school year. Basin Electric is a consumer-owned and controlled regional cooperative responsible for supplying wholesale electric power to nine Midwestern states. Each of the 141 rural electric cooperatives that make up Basin Electric, including Northern Plains Electric Cooperative, receives $1,000 from Basin Electric to award a scholarship to a qualifying dependent of a...
Dollars for Scholars recently awarded a $2,000 EducateND Scholarship to Kyleigh Hilbert of New Rockford-Sheyenne High School. “The North Dakota Dollars for Scholars chapter and the local Dollars for Scholars chapters work together to provide scholarships to North Dakotans. Local volunteers should be commended for the excellent work maintaining scholarship levels in a challenging year,” states North Dakota Dollars for Scholars State Director Rachel LaForce. North Dakota Dollars for Scholars awarded a total of $217,000 to 140 students across Nor...
There is something for everyone at this year's Central Dakota Ag Day. The annual event will be on Friday, Dec. 15 at North Dakota State University's Carrington Research Extension Center. The Central Dakota Ag Day program always includes an outstanding line-up of speakers, providing updates on crop production, livestock production and marketing. This year, the planners of the event have expanded the program to include topics of general interest especially related to ag life. Mychal and Kimberly...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Watford City man charged with murder Scott Beane, 35, of Watford City, has been charged with Class AA felony murder. According to documents filed with the Northwest Judicial District, the McKenzie County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a fire at a residence on Sept. 12, 2023. The individual who reported the crime indicated to law enforcement that he could see his wife deceased in...
Tuesday, Charlotte Koepplin enjoyed a phone call from her aunt Lucille (Longnecker) Saldivar and daughter Arlene Helgeson from Anaheim, Calif., with early Thanksgiving greetings. Lucille and family are doing fine. Margie Anderson, along with Glenn and Judy Cudworth, Doug Cudworth and Dave Short enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner at the Heritage House. Charlotte Koepplin, Aaron and Danielle Koepplin, Kerigan, Carter, Chevelle and Hendrix and Dennis Haugen were Thanksgiving guests at the Janelle Koepplin home. Thanksgiving afternoon visitors at the...
United States Attorney Mac Schneider, District of North Dakota, announced that Cody James Belgarde, age 36, from St. Michael, N.D., was found guilty of the charges of second-degree murder and arson. In January of 2021, Belgarde shot and killed a boy who was two weeks past his 17th birthday. Belgarde then set fire to the house where the murder took place. After eight days of trial and over thirty witnesses, the jury reached a verdict and found Belgarde guilty of second-degree murder and arson within Indian country. The jury acquitted Belgarde...
Janet Laube from Fargo's Edgewood Vista called Charlotte Koepplin to wish her a happy Thanksgiving and tell her about her day full of surprises. She enjoyed dinner with friends at the Vista; Then answered a knock on her door to find niece Robin Westal and other family with decorations, including a Christmas tree, lights and all. They decorated Janet's apartment for the holidays. Lo and behold there came another knock on the door. It was grandsons, Travis Laube and friend and Scott Laube, with more surprises and goodies. Scott brought the...
Jeff and Denise Labrensz enjoyed Thanksgiving at the Albert and Denise Pfeiffer farm along with Matt and Allison Pfeiffer and family and 20 others. A lot of visiting and even a game or two of Clue was played by a few. Patti Larson was one of several Sheyenne residents that gave blood on Monday at the Vitalant drive in New Rockford. Eunice Throlson was a registration volunteer. The Sheyenne town board members took advantage of the mild weather before Thanksgiving to hang the Main Street Christmas decorations. Elves were spotted at the loading...
Last night, I got to see "how the sausage is made." As a member of the media, I was invited to watch DPRCA's "The Christmas Show" before anyone else. This time, I was on assignment, shooting photos to document Elliott Schwab's original script coming together on stage. Well, that was part of it. I also wanted to be among the first to see it so I could give you, my dear readers, a glimpse inside the show. It was the one Wednesday night appointment I was happy to take, and it came just in time....
Each year the weekend after Thanksgiving, I sense an innate urge to risk life, limb and public humiliation by festooning the exterior of our home with several hundred C9 incandescent lights. (I'm still resisting the whole LED craze – also known as "the Devil's bulbs.") My mild-mannered next-door neighbor and I always engage in an unspoken competition to see who can get their Christmas lights up first, but since I have the holiday sleeping habits of an inebriated grizzly bear in m...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to nominate William O. Douglas to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Louis Brandeis in 1939, but there was a problem: a geographical problem. Douglas, a resident of Connecticut since his days as a Yale Law Professor, and four current justices – Hughes, Stone, Frankfurter and Roberts – were easterners. While no formal requirement for geographical representation on the Court existed, presidents had generally followed a long, if somewhat loose, tradition that sug...
Today, I want to delve into the wondrous and awe-inspiring event known as the Annunciation – a moment that forever changed the course of history and brought forth the Savior of the world. The Annunciation is a powerful testament to the mysterious and beautiful ways in which God works in our lives. In the Gospel of Luke, we find the account of the angel Gabriel appearing to the young virgin named Mary, announcing that she would conceive and bear the Son of God. The angel's words, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God." (...
Most of us have heard the 1969 song, “More Today than Yesterday” by the band Spiral Staircase. The chorus says, “I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow.” I had not heard it for a while, but I’m sensitive to music and often a song will trigger my emotions and then I start asking the Lord about what is the hidden message within the music. It’s a catchy tune that has a happy bounce to it, much like what someone feels when they are in love. However, despite this song being...
The New Rockford-Sheyenne girls' basketball team kicked off their season on Monday, Nov. 27 against the rivals from down the road – the Carrington Cardinals. However, due to the new 3-class system, the Cardinals are now placed in the Division A, Region 2 bracket and the Rockets are placed in the Division B, District 4 bracket. But the division didn't matter in this matchup. The Rockets took a strong 6-point lead in the start of the first quarter with baskets scored by NR-S seniors Kelsie B...
A pre-meal appetizer before the turkeys and casserole came out of the oven meant some exciting action from the Cardinal mat crews two days prior to the Thanksgiving holiday. Carrington started the head-to-head portion of the 2023-24 boys' wrestling campaign with a home dual in the East Gym Tuesday, Nov. 21, against the Oakes Tornadoes, falling in 42-30 fashion. Highlights from the boys' match included wins by pin from Skye Kramlich at 107 pounds, along with Dru Carr (121), Nic Garber (145),...
Welcome back for another season of Archival Anecdotes! For those of you who aren't familiar with this column, please allow me to make an introduction. It was late in 2019 that the Eddy County Museum and Historical Society decided to launch the interpretive column for the winter months. Since then, I have written 126 of these entries, and I am planning on writing a couple dozen more before the museum opens again at the end of May. Perhaps that is a cue for another introduction. I have served as...
On June 30, 1906, Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Radtke returned from Fargo, where they had attended the Grand Lodge meetings of the Masons and the Eastern Star. Fred Von Almen went to his old home in Minnesota, called there by the death of his grandmother. Barber W.T. Buck left for a visit to his old home at Adel, Iowa; he returned on July 20. “While driving thru a door,” Mose Reams was “squeezed” and received a broken rib. From June 30 to July 5, Anton Lill was visiting in Minnesota. The North Dakota...
Dear Savvy Senior, What can you tell me about seasonal affective disorder? I’ve always disliked winter, but since I retired and am home a lot more, the gray, cold winter months make me feel really blue. Sad Sam Dear Sam, If you get depressed in the winter but feel better in spring and summer, you may indeed have seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, a wintertime depression that affects roughly 5 percent of Americans. In most cases, SAD is related to the loss of sunlight in the winter months. R...
