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The New Rockford Swimming Pool officially opened on the first day of June, and kids came out in droves to beat the sudden summer heat. See more photos in our online gallery here: https://www.newrockfordtranscript.com/photos Photos by Amy Wobbema....
Newspaper publishers were recently told that our postage rates are set to increase by 8 percent in July. This is the third rate increase since August 2022, and a total of 35 percent in increases in just over two years. The cost of printing newspapers has also increased, by 24 percent since the spring of 2021. Annual subscription rates, meanwhile, at the Independent and Transcript have increased by $6 in the past 8 years I’ve been a publisher. In order to fully cover the costs of printing and p...
Summer is a great time to relax with a good book, whether it be under a cabana on the beach or in a chair on your patio. Our local libraries in both Carrington and New Rockford are hosting Summer Reading Programs, and their kick-off celebrations are coming up this week as we officially start summer break. A staff member in the Carrington office was chatting with one of her book club buddies last week. They had finished their latest title before everyone else and were so surprised by the ending....
Your local newspaper brought home 27 awards in the annual Better Newspaper Contest, announced at Spirit Lake Casino during the 137th annual North Dakota Newspaper Association Convention on Friday, May 12. The Transcript competes in the mid-size weekly category, which includes 18 newspapers. The awards reflect journalistic work completed in 2022, for anything from news and editorial writing to photography and advertising design. The top award received by the Transcript was second place in...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and it’s time to get real. Here in the newsroom, we struggle too. No matter how many positive stories we publish, the “bad news” stories seem to rise to the top for readers. Yes, we must report on these topics, however unpleasant. It’s our job as journalists to read through the police reports and court filings and help citizens make sense of the crazy in our world. And when we do publish all the details, we know those stories will get read. However, it’s th...
Every year for Mother’s Day I give flower pots from a local greenhouse to my mom and my mother-in-law. It’s a great way to show our appreciation, and it brightens their yard and gives them something to enjoy all summer and into the fall. I typically choose an arrangement of common varieties, such as geraniums or petunias, that has already been potted and ready for purchase. This year I decided to take it up a notch. The theme is kindness and gratitude, and I’m planting the pots myself so I can...
There are only two seasons in North Dakota, some say – winter and road construction. That will certainly be true for New Rockford yet again this year. New Rockford city commissioners learned Monday that Bituminous Paving will return on May 15 to finish the street project. They have nine spots of rehabilitation to do, per Public Works Superintendent Bruce Hirchert, as well as more paving and chip seal throughout. The company will be assessed a $1,500 per day penalty for liquidated damages, as t...
My trip to Salt Lake City was one I won’t forget. Breathtaking scenery, great food and family time were among my favorite parts of the five-day excursion west. Leaving work behind was definitely the hardest. I knew it would be a challenge, and so I made lists and meticulously tied up loose ends before we hit the road. I left the keys in my vehicle in the garage, just in case the newspapers didn’t make it to Carrington on Friday and needed to be picked up in Jamestown or Fargo (as has been the...
The Rocket archers sure know how to end a season on a high note. After a two-day competition in Sandy, Utah, New Rockford-Sheyenne brought two archers to the winner's circle at the NASP Western National Tournament on April 29. The five-day journey began at 8 a.m. Wednesday, as 26 archers, two coaches and their chaperones loaded a Harlow's charter bus in front of the NR-S Gym. They traveled to Gillette, Wyoming on day one, and ended the day with Mexican cuisine from local favorite Armando's Taco...
Where did the month of April go? That’s what I find myself wondering. So much for April showers. May we please get May flowers anyway? Surely the April snow had enough moisture in it to help them bloom. The next day that I’ll wake up in North Dakota is Monday, May 1, the publication date of this newspaper. I have sticky notes all over my MacBook and more on my desk, to remind me of all the things I must finish before we leave for the NASP Western National Archery Tournament in Utah. As I pre...
We said goodbye to the Golden Stratus last week. The 2005 Dodge Stratus that was supposed to last through all three teenage drivers in our household was hauled away to the scrapyard. I bought that car with cash from an older gentleman when I was driving to Jamestown for work over 10 years ago. I was looking for something inexpensive that had better gas mileage than my 4x4 SUV, knowing that it would put on many highway miles. When I started working in New Rockford again, my husband and I told...
It’s been a long, rough winter. I haven’t seen parts of my sidewalk or most of my backyard since December. I knocked icicles off my roof at the office for the 110th time last week in the midst of the blizzard, and one bounced off my wrist before it crashed to the ground. Now I have a sunny yellow bruise in that spot. Hopefully it’s a sign that it was the last time I have to deal with ice for several months. Surely brighter days are ahead, I said out loud to myself as I rubbed my wrist. On Tuesd...
“This brown water keeps rearing its ugly head around town,” President Stuart Richter told commissioners and the public at the New Rockford City Commission’s April 3 meeting. He had met with Interstate Engineering after complaints had come pouring in again about water quality issues. Wage Senger of Interstate Engineering prepared a written report outlining the issues and their course of action to address them, which Richter reviewed with the commission. The most recent round of unsavory water...
"Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them," writes author Margaret Mitchell. I second that, and I will add blizzards to the list, especially after the winter we've had in good ole NoDak. Tax Day is April 18, and this year it's a doozy. The IRS changed the W-4 form a couple of years ago, and since then many of us have been trying to crack the code that tells us exactly how many extra dollars to have withheld from each paycheck to avoid paying a boatload of...
During the entire month of March, the air temperature did not get above 32 degrees in Carrington, according to data from the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network (NDAWN). The normal maximum air temperature for March in Carrington is 36 degrees, four degrees warmer than the highest temperature on record for this March. The normal maximum air temperature is calculated by averaging the maximum air temperatures for the same month from the past 30 years, 1991-2020. The average soil temperature...
It’s City Government Week. In the Transcript we are running essays written by third graders at New Rockford-Sheyenne School. The topic is “If I Were Mayor” and each student had the opportunity to write about what makes their city great and what they would do if they were mayor for a day. In honor of City Government Week, I decided to write the same essay and print it here as my column. So, here it is, folks! If I were mayor, I’d never hold meetings on Wednesday afternoons or Thursday morning...
It's officially spring. Well, at least that's what the calendar says. We observed the Spring Equinox on Monday at 4:24 p.m., in the midst of piles of snow and a temperature below the freezing mark. At least the sun was out in all its glory, blinding me as I made the short trek from New Rockford to Carrington and back home. Little more than 24 hours later, our area got yet another round of snow, and with it came "challenging travel conditions," in the words of the meteorologists tasked with...
Layton Jacobson has done it again. He is a state champion in archery. He claimed the top spot in middle school boys' 3D for the second year in a row with a score of 285. Consistency and careful calculation have been the hallmarks of his championship run for two years running. His score improved from 282 in last year's state tournament. The North Dakota NASP State Tournament brought Jacobson and nearly 700 other archers to the North Dakota State Fair Center in Minot on Friday and Saturday, March...
Let's get this par-tee started! It might not be quite golfing weather, but you'll wish you were out on the greens this spring. Beginning next Friday DPRCA presents "The Fox on the Fairway," a charmingly madcap adventure about love, life and man's eternal love affair with ... golf. This hilarious romantic comedy pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy patrons of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors and over-the-top shenanigans, it's a furiously paced farce...
At a 90-minute city commission meeting on Monday, March 6, officials had further discussion on three proposals first brought before them at the February meeting. Proposed changes to the 15-year-old Housing Incentive Program jointly administered by the city and NRABC were first on the docket. The Housing Incentive Program is designed to encourage current and potential residents to invest in the city’s housing stock. They receive “perks” by purchasing or renovating an existing home or build...
I got my annual Girl Scout Cookie fix last Friday. One of my favorite two Girl Scouts, my niece Megan, showed up just before supper time to make her pitch. I was happy to take a full case (and a couple extra boxes) off her hands in support of a good cause. Now, a few days later, as I munched on a Tagalong while trying to come up with a topic for this column, I got an idea. Personality tests are popular these days, particularly in work settings. Companies want to know what motivates a potential...
Our physical and virtual worlds are colliding at a seemingly breakneck pace. Gaming recently joined the ranks of school-sanctioned sports. NR-S is in the middle of its third season of having a competitive team, and my son is a member of the Valorant II team. First introduced in 2019, Valorant is a team-based tactical shooter and first-person shooter game developed and published by Riot Games. Folks, this is quite a different experience than any other in high school sports. My son plays from the...
Harvey hosted its first NASP archery tournament on Saturday, February 25, and NR-S archers certainly made their presence known. The Harvey Eagle Eye Tournament offered both bullseye and 3D divisions, and dozens of NR-S archers took the opportunity to compete. In the bullseye division held in the high school gym, Layton Jacobson led the way for the Rockets. He scored a 285, first place among middle school boys and the highest boy's score overall. Right behind Jacobson was Koy Zieman with a 284,...
This past weekend I had the opportunity to do something a little different. The 4-H Shooting Sports and Outdoor Skills Club in Eddy County spent time in the Turtle Mountain region, particularly at Lake Metigoshe State Park north of Bottineau. The trip was organized by club leader Mike Brazil, who believes it's important to get youth outside, experiencing the outdoors. "I look at how we grew up, and then I see how our kids are growing up," Mike said to me Saturday, "and I want them to get...
