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Lucy (left) and Judy (right) Meier enjoy a brisk morning skate on their homemade rink. Their father (and the mastermind behind the rink) Preston Meier says this is the fourth year constructing an ice rink for his family. He also notes this is the first time creating an ice sculpture of such magnitude (seen in the background)....
In court on Dec. 13, Mark Steinbach was re-sentenced for the 1996 murder of his then live-in girlfriend, Debra Rhinehart. The events leading up to Steinbach’s trial and conviction began on March 8, 1996, when Rhinehart was reported missing. She was last seen alive on March 3 or 4, when the pair had been seen arguing outside a New Rockford bar. Rhinehart left the bar with another person, then later returned to retrieve her car and drive home. Rhinehart’s body was discovered on March 21, 1996 aft...
The entry of NR-S Public School just got a facelift- and not for purely cosmetic reasons. The doors are the first step in implementing secure access to the school. A Department of Homeland Security grant provided funds toward this renovation, which will monitor and control access throughout the day. The next step is to secure the interior doors with a card reader. The doors will continue to be open for events in the evening, however, during the school day the public will be asked to buzz into the main office for school access. Superintendent...
“This isn’t the news I wanted to share,” Dave Gehrtz said to fellow members of the County Commission Tuesday. That comment was in reference to a change in plans yet again regarding the former Mill Pump Property. Gehrtz reported that Reuben Panchol at the Department of Environmental Quality has asked the county to have the underground tank removed before offering the property for sale. Panchol set the budget at $50,000 and said the county is eligible to apply for EPA Brownfields funding avail...
Farmers Union Insurance agent donates $1,000 Farmers Union Insurance agents across the state receive $1,000 each year to give to local causes. Local agent Donn Frahm chose the New Rockford Dollars for Scholars this year to receive the award. He is pictured above with local chapter president Rachel Holzwarth. Farmers Union Insurance believes in building stronger communities, and this is one of many ways they give back. Bank of North Dakota awards $1,000 to local chapter The New Rockford Dollars...
Pictured at left, Kari Benson, Sara Myhre and LuAnn Alderman were each recognized for their years of service to the Community Ambulance Service of New Rockford. They were honored during the volunteer organization's Christmas Party on Saturday, Dec. 14. Members enjoyed supper at the Latte Lobby Bistro and the showing of "A Christmas Story: The Musical" at the Dakota Prairie Regional Center for the Arts Benson was recognized for 5 years of service. Myhre and Alderman were both recognized for 10...
Please join us, the children of Eugene and Janice Nielsen, as we honor our parents on their 50th Wedding Anniversary. God has blessed them together with children and grandchildren through love, laughter and tears. Together they have found friendship, raised a family and built a beautiful marriage. We invite you to celebrate this special day with them by sending a card or note to include a memory or simply express your good wishes. Cards may be sent to them at PO Box 142 Reynolds, N.D. 58275...
A Spirit Lake man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury of a child. Jonathan James Hill, 23, also will be placed on five years of supervised release and was ordered not to have contact with children younger than 18. He will be required to pay restitution. According to court documents, Hill assaulted a 20-month-old child he was a parent or guardian to in a Fort Totten residence around Dec. 26, 2018 - Jan. 1, 2019, which resulted in serious...
Congratulations to the winners in the New Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual Jolly Jingle promotion. The organization gave away $1,000 in Chamber bucks to promote local shopping this holiday season. Each day from Nov. 25 through Dec. 15, one or more local businesses drew from their box and awarded $25 in Chamber bucks. Nov. 25- Ardyce Snyder, $25 (Tupperware with Katie Jorgenson) Nov. 27- Kim Johnson, $25 (Transcript Publishing) Nov. 29- Casey Weber, $25 (CenDak Cooperative) Nov. 30- Brent Helseth, $25 (New Rockford Eagles Club) Dec. 2...
On Thursday, Dec. 5, the Devils Lake Basin Joint Water Resource Board presented their 2019 Water Stewardship Award to a very deserving group during the 56th Annual Joint North Dakota Water Convention and Irrigation Workshop’s Awards Banquet in Bismarck. The award was presented to the Devils Lake Access Committee. The Committee was nominated by Vice-President of the Lake Region Anglers Association Jay Hagen. The Committee is made up of representatives from the Devils Lake Park Board, City of Devils Lake, Ramsey County Commission, and Dev...
Ken Hansen, on behalf of the Carrington Runnings store, 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 $100 gas cards for CHI St. Alexius Health Carrington patients who must travel to a larger healthcare facility for breast cancer treatments....
"With the difficult and late harvest, producers haven't had much time to think about year-end tax planning, but it's getting to be that time of year," says Ron Haugen, North Dakota State University Extension farm economist. "With potential financial problems due to the difficult year, it is more important than ever to do tax planning." "It is best to start with year-to-date income and expenses, and estimate them for the remainder of the year," says Haugen. "Estimate depreciation and include any income that was deferred to 2019 from a previous...
Last Saturday Jimmy Indergaard was a visitor at the Mervin Indergaard home and a Sunday visitor and dinner guest at the Andy and Ruth Braaten home. Thursday morning, Kathleen Lee was a brief stopper at the Charlotte Koepplin home with early Christmas greetings. Sunday afternoon visitors at the Margie Anderson home were David Anderson and grandson Weston Sylling. Saturday found visitors to be Ryan and Laura Hager, Josslyn, Jakoby, Damian and Ewen. Sunday supper guests at the Merle and Sandy Longnecker home were ErvinLongnecker and Eric and Lisa...
New Rockford and area folks extend sympathy to the families of Earl Stokke and Levi Duda. Todd and Karen Koepplin became grandparents for the second time Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. as son Taylor and Amanda had a bouncing baby girl, Evelyn Jo at Jamestown Medical Center. Evelyn weighed in at 11 lbs and 9 oz. She was 20 inches long with lots of light brown hair. She made great-grandparents of Martin and Janelle Koepplin and Frederick and Dianne Allmaras. Janet Laube enjoyed a phone call from grandson Scott Laube Sunday evening, wondering what...
Saturday evening, Barb Eversvik and Jan Loe enjoyed the Nelson Family Christmas Show at Spirit Lake Casino. Patti Clifton rode along to Devils Lake with Jan Loe on Monday afternoon. They delivered plates of Christmas goodies to Sheyenne-Oberon Area Ministry members from the First Lutheran Church Women. The annual Community Christmas Day Dinner will be held at Ostby Hall with serving of the turkey-and-all-the trimmings dinner from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Christmas music will be performed by Dakota Blende for everyone's listening pleasure. Be sure to...
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Jake, Amanda, Fallyn and Piper Hegland went to Jamestown and spent time with Amanda’s family. Saturday, Dec. 7, the Hegland’s went to Grand Forks and attended a Shriners Patients Christmas party that was hosted by KEM Shriners. Tom and Pam Schmid went to Hampden Sunday to visit Pam’s dad, Bud Hermanson. Lester Roberts took in the Medora Christmas Show Wednesday night at the Lake Region State College Auditorium. Chad Getscher visited Lester Saturday evening. Sunday visitors were his brother, Roger and his daugh...
Most of my Christmases have become hopelessly blurred together, but Christmas 1969 holds a special place in my heart. In fact, back in 1998 my very first yuletide column took a whimsically nostalgic look at that holiday. But as the 50th anniversary of Christmas 1969 approaches, I feel compelled to write something with more gravitas. There were two main things I implored Santa for that year. One was a selection of toys from a yellowing 1927 Montgomery Ward catalog that my mother the collector...
Most Americans, exhausted by Trump’s demagogic lying and relentless pillaging of the values we hold dear, are understandably skeptical that impeachment will cleanse the stench and quash the nightmare. Indeed, that day of reckoning won’t come any time soon. His fact-averse authoritarian enablers in the Republican Senate will likely rig his escape from accountability, and he’ll spend 2020 playing the victim and stoking his cult. But there can be a happy ending, if people have the will to make it so. The turnout backlash against Trump that power...
She once ate an entire stack of pancakes – at least six or seven – while I was taking my daughter to the school bus. On Thanksgiving, several years ago, she ate the last piece of apple pie. I didn’t actually see her eat it but the dots were very connectable. She was the only one in the kitchen, the pie plate was empty, and there were pie crumbs all over her chin. She liked to nibble the bottoms of my shirts. The vet said it was a way for her to show affection, a sign of love. I have a drawer filled with t-shirts with little holes in them....
Levi Preston Duda, 29, New Rockford passed away Friday near New Rockford, N.D. The funeral service was held Dec. 19, 2019, at First Lutheran Church, New Rockford. Burial was at the Prairie Home Cemetery, New Rockford. Rev. Doug Nemitz officiated with special music provided by Mary Ellen Rue and Jessica Hawkes. Honorary bearers were all of Levi's family and friends. Levi Preston Duda was born April 4, 1990 in Carrington, N.D. the son of Duane and Annette (Broin) Duda. He graduated from New...
Jeffrey Michael Nyhusmoen, 58, of Sheyenne, passed away Dec. 11, 2019. A Celebration of Life was held Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. at Ostby Hall, Sheyenne. Burial will be at the Riverside Cemetery in Sheyenne at a later date. Pastor Jeff Halvorson officiated. Honorary bearers were Matthew Ziegler, Jeff Brenno, Eric Swenson, Aaron Geer, Zach Bergrud and Mark Riggle. Jeffery was born April 9, 1961 at the New Rockford hospital to Arnold and LouAnn and baptized at the First Lutheran Church. His family moved...
Juanita "Junita" Nyhusmoen, 96, of Sheyenne, passed away Dec. 15, 2019 at the Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd, New Rockford, N.D. The funeral service was held Dec. 21 at First Lutheran Church in Sheyenne. Burial will be at the Grandfield Lutheran Cemetery in rural Sheyenne. Pastor Jeff Halvorson officiated with special music provided by Kerstin and Katie Allmaras and Paula Loewen. Honorary bearers were Jamie Allmaras, Troy Georgeson, Bob Hanson, Dean Warren, Ken Ames, Gordon Nelson and all...
Joseph F. Teel Jr., 69, of rural Sheyenne, passed away Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019 at his home near Sheyenne with his wife Carol at his side. The funeral was held Dec. 20 at Evans Funeral Home, New Rockford, N.D. Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery in Sheyenne at a later date. Fr. Charles Leute officiated. Honorary bearers were all of Joe's family and friends. Joseph was born Nov. 24, 1950 in Sioux City, Iowa, the son of Joseph and Frances (Mullumby) Teel. He served in the United States Marine Corps...
Earl John Stokke, 66, New Rockford died Dec. 10, 2019 in Ave Maria Nursing Home in Jamestown, N.D. Earl's celebration of life was held Dec. 21 at Hanson's Bar in New Rockford. He was born Nov. 6, 1953 in New Rockford, the son of Earl and Vennoy Stokke. He attended schools in Eddy and Wells County, graduating from Cathay High School in Cathay, N.D. He worked for an elevator construction company for a few years before going to work for Rocky Mountain Geophysical. He then worked for Swingen...
The very first Christmas began with dreams and visions. In Luke’s gospel we read of the visions of Zechariah, Mary, shepherds, Simeon, and Anna. I have been considering the dreams of Joseph and the magi recorded in Matthew. The fourth dream recorded there is another dream of Joseph’s. We read: “When Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, ‘Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead’” (Matthew 2:19-20). We are not su...
