Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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Voters in Eddy County took to the polls Tuesday, June 14, to cast their ballots for local elections and primary races within their county, district and state. Of the 2,015 eligible voters in Eddy County, 572 cast a ballot in this year’s primary election. Of those, 412 were mail-in ballots, while just 160 were cast in-person on election day. According to Eddy County Auditor Patty Williams, turnout for this year’s primary was the lowest it’s been in at least a decade. In the two most recent non-p...
In the overnight and early morning hours of Tuesday, June 14, severe storms saturated New Rockford and much of Eddy County. Loud claps of thunder and sheets of rain blanketed the area, and at approximately 11 p.m. Monday night, the National Weather Service in Grand Forks issued a tornado warning for southwest Benson County, southwest Ramsey County and northwestern Eddy County after "radar indicated rotation" was picked up near Oberon. At least one New Rockford resident woke to find more than...
Kick off your festivities this 4th of July weekend by supporting local veterans at the annual Freedom 5K! The New Rockford Transcript will be hosting the event this year, which is scheduled for Saturday, July 2 at 8 a.m. Proceeds will be donated to Sheyenne VFW post #3696. When asked why folks should participate in the Freedom 5K, Sydney Ulrich of Transcript Publishing said, "Because it's a fun local event to support local veterans and current military personnel." This year's route will be the...
Get your trunks, swimsuits and pool noodles ready, the New Rockford pool is finally open! On Thursday, June 16, the New Rockford pool opened its doors following a complex process of getting the pool’s water quality up to snuff, which didn’t exactly go swimmingly. The original plan was to fill the pool with water once updates to the New Rockford Water Treatment Plant were up and running. But delays in that process forced Dennis Nybo, Park District Director, to change course. Instead, they filled...
Since breaking ground on Sept. 16 last year, work on a major expansion project for North American Bison, LLC (NAB) has been well underway. Passers by traveling on Highway 281 have likely seen the recent addition of wall paneling on the addition's west side. Mike Jacobson, Vice President of Operations, said it's one of the last steps before work on the interior can begin. "What we've done so far is put up all the structural steel, and then obviously you can see the wall paneling that's going...
New Rockford-Sheyenne music students embarked on a five-day tour of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro the morning after graduation. They honed their musical skills in a private masterclass at University of Minnesota, led by Shekela Wanyama, a doctoral student in the music department. They also performed at Senior Home Lyngblomsten and at Valley Fair. The itinerary also included plenty of adventure, with stops at Great Wolf Lodge, Minnehaha Park, Como Park Zoo, St. Paul's Cathedral, Mall of A...
Medicare fraud continues to ravage the program to the tune of billions of dollars a year. And while the cost to the program increases costs for beneficiaries in the form of higher premiums, much more is at stake. Your healthcare history can be affected if someone steals your number and uses it to get treatment that ends up in your file. Also, receiving “Medicare-covered” equipment or tests unknowingly from a scammer can make you ineligible for those services down the road. The two most important things you can do to help fight Medicare fra...
North Central Planning Council (NCPC) in collaboration with the economic development offices in N.D. Region III, including Cavalier County JDA, Benson County JDA, Forward Devils Lake, Towner County EDC, New Rockford Betterment Corporation and Rolla JDA, are working on an application to the North Dakota Department of Commerce Regional Workforce Impact Program (RWIP). NCPC is seeking proposals for current and start-up daycare center/group initiatives to be part of the Region III RWIP application. The purpose of the funding will be to assist licen...
Greetings! Now that the weather has gotten nicer and the Fourth of July is just around the corner, people will be gathering in large groups. I encourage you to stay safe and consider testing yourself or families if you are not feeling well, or think you have been exposed to COVID-19. I have home tests for COVID-19 available if you need them. Just call or stop by the office to pick it up, or I may be able to bring it to you. More news about our veteran community: Raymond B. Thorn Post #30 of the American Legion will start gaming at Buck It’s B...
The 4-H Showcase event for Foster and Eddy counties was held Monday, June 13, 2022 at the Carrington Research Extension Center. The 4-H Showcase consisted of two categories, Project Expo and Consumer Clothing Revue. Both categories of exhibitors are interviewed and evaluated by judges. 4-H club members demonstrate thought, effort and knowledge they have about their exhibits and projects. The 4-H youth that participated in Project Expo created a table display related to a 4-H project in which...
Here’s your weekly rundown of some of the most interesting headlines from newspapers across North Dakota. Rain slows planting progress “The worst planting conditions of my lifetime.” That’s how one Foster County resident recently described the past two months. “What about the spring of 2020?” I asked. “We had corn in the field until March, and wet conditions prevented the planting of nearly 40 percent of the cropland in Foster County.” He thought for a second and then responded, “I think this s...
The New Rockford community hosted a blood drive with Vitalant on May 26 at St. John’s Catholic Church, which helped collect a total of 43 units of blood products for patients in need. A total of 47 individuals0 volunteered to donate blood and 38 individuals were able to successfully donate at the Vitalant blood drive on May 26. A total of five donors also came forward to donate Power Red Cells (2RBC) which collects two units of red blood cells while returning platelets, plasma and a saline solution back to the donor. Vitalant expressed their g...
Jimmy Indergaard enjoyed visiting and supper with his sister, Ruth, and Andy Braaten Tuesday and visiting and supper Wednesday with uncle, Mervin Indergaard, and cousin, Vicki Magill. Friday afternoon, Pastor Richard Biberdorf was a visitor at the Charlotte Koepplin home. Bringing greetings from Grace Lutheran Church and giving Charlotte, Shirley Packard and Diana Rue communion, after which all enjoyed chatting over ice cream and rolls. Visitors this past week at the Margie Anderson home have been Kathy Anderson, Karen Anderson, Glen and Judy...
Neal and Liz Swenson’s son, Evan, and Hope Gutschmidt were married last Saturday. All of Liz’s and all of Neal’s siblings were able to attend except one. Congratulations again to Evan and Hope. Lester Roberts, Midge Quam and Lezlee Thorson took a road trip to the Peace Gardens on Thursday. They toured the Garden and visited the different sites before returning home. Lester attended “The Bridges Home Concert” at the Maddock Opera House Sunday. Joe Schmid of Fargo and his son, Braden of Denver, Colo. were guests at Howard and Helen Schmid’s...
New Rockford and area folks extend sympathy to the family of Richard Dungan. Sunday morning, Shirley Packard received a sad phone call from Front Royal, Va. that long-time friend, Gloria Price (Marcon) had passed away at the age of 95. Gloria was a classmate of friends Charles Richter, Bill Starke and Gerda Backman. Janet Laube enjoyed a phone call from niece, Robin Westall, from Fargo Sunday. Brief stoppers Friday at the Eloise Lucht home were Heidi Schneider and Calli in town from Devils Lake tending to business. Ken and Marvis Holte and...
Patti Clifton kept a medical appointment at Jamestown Regional Medical Center recently. Jan Loe rode along with her. They ate noon lunch at Pingree on the way to Jamestown. After Patti's appointment, they did some shopping before returning to Sheyenne. It was a full house at Ostby Hall last Thursday evening for the Tara Thumb benefit. Sunday, Bonnie Deegan and Jan Loe attended worship at Calvary Lutheran in Oberon. Later, they were joined by Steph Loe and they drove to New Rockford for noon lunch. Patti Clifton and Jan Loe did errands in New...
Wow! Will this really be my 19th Father's Day as a father? My biggest regret is that I've had to learn so much the hard way. To make life easier for other fathers and prospective fathers, I'm sharing reader-submitted pearls of wisdom: Resign yourself to the fact that the mother of your progeny will probably never admit that you deserved an epidural for the paper cut you suffered from the Lamaze brochure. Remember that whatever doesn't kill you only makes you available to encounter the next...
The story of my upbringing is not unlike thousands of other North Dakotans. I grew up in a very small, rural community – Ray, North Dakota – the same hometown of my parents, in a modest house that my parents built when they were married. That house was more than a building; it was our home, and the ability of my parents to access and afford a place of their own provided security, certainty, and satisfaction for all of us. I realize now the immense dignity they felt being able to build their family and raise their three kids within those fou...
In his 6-3 opinion for the Supreme Court in the landmark case, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952), Justice Hugo Black rejected President Harry Truman’s assertion of an inherent executive power to seize the steel industry as a means of thwarting a nationwide steel strike. Black’s opinion, a historic rebuke to sweeping claims of presidential authority, provided a textbook lesson on the constraining force of the separation of powers doctrine and why it prohibited President Truman from issuing an executive order that encroached on leg...
Terry Braathen Tolna, N.D. Terry Braathen, age 81, of Tolna, N.D., died Wednesday, December 29, 2021, at the NCHS Hospital in McVille, N.D. Terrance "Terry" Braathen was born August 4, 1940, in Devils Lake, N.D., to Odd C. Braathen and Borghild (Halvorson). He grew up in Devils Lake but spent much of his youth on his uncle Tory's farm near Tolna. He was in the Army from 1963 to 1965, and stationed in Germany from 1964 to 1965, as aircraft maintenance. He'd worked a few years at Peavy Lumber...
A community project has been laid to rest. As previously reported in the Transcript, community members identified four unmarked graves in the New Rockford cemetery last October and embarked on a fundraising campaign to set things right by purchasing burial stones for the gentlemen. Archie Jackson, Boyd Kennedy, Pat Malone and Alex Mathews are all buried in the New Rockford Cemetery, memorialized in the November 1, 2021 edition of the Transcript, and now have proper markers to identify their...
A heavy metal band I commonly listen to, Skillet, recently released a song called “Hero.” In the song they describe, with no shortage of energy, how we need a hero. From the Skillet’s perspective, there is so much wrong with the world, life, and inside all of us that there is no way to make it through without an intervention by a hero. They feel a necessity for someone to fight for the weak, someone to fight for what’s right, and for someone to fight for humanity after death. Skillet isn’t crazy. I see this desire for a hero everywher...
“Our mind is a garden our thoughts are seeds, we can plant flowers or we can plant weeds.” This old saying means we choose what we think about and are responsible for the thoughts we allow to grow. We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. We decide each moment what we will say, how we act, and who we will serve. God is waiting for us to become the person Jesus died for us to be. Courage does not always roar. Sometimes faith is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, “I...
We've needed moisture here in the Great Plains. We've prayed and hoped for rain, and now we're getting it – in some places, more than enough. But during the last couple of weeks, what's dropping from the sky is more than rain. At first glance, you might think the green vegetative debris in the streets is grass clippings from lawn mowers. A closer look reveals the green along the curbs is not grass, but it is leaves – leaves from green ash trees, the most abundant tree along city streets in nea...
On the evening of Feb. 16, 1905, the New Rockford Orchestra furnished the music for “a large number of our young people” at a dance in the Hotel Davies. The Feb. 17, 1905, “Transcript” had a note from the editor, A.C. Olsen, asking for the public’s indulgence because during the illness of his brother Len J. Olsen, the editor would have to do all the work in getting the paper published, including typesetting. L.J., who had been at the paper for three years, had been confined to his bed for two w...
