Standout former NRHS athlete battling disease

Rachael Otto, a 1993 NRHS grad who's among the most successful athletes to ever come out of New Rockford, is taking on the fight of her life.

On Sunday, Sept. 17, Otto was enjoying a weekend at her lake cabin in Minnesota when she experienced a blood clot in the lower portion of her brain.

She was immediately rushed to a hospital in Detroit Lakes, Minn. and later taken by ambulance to Fargo, N.D....