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A fixture in the local agribusiness community is slated to close if a buyer can't be found soon. Last week, Chet Pollert announced to his employees and customers that he intends to retire, and he plans to liquidate the business assets of G & R Grain and Feed over the next couple of months should no one step forward to succeed him as owner. G & R Grain and Feed was established by longtime New Rockford resident Theodore "Ted" Gathman in 1978. Gathman purchased the facility from Peavey Company,...
One of North American Bison's longest-tenured staff members has been named the Chamber's Employee of the Month. Plant Manager Rodney Swart was recognized with the award on Wednesday morning. Although he works much more closely with staff than he does customers, Swart does answer customer questions as needed and greets ranchers who haul their animals to the plant for processing. And it appears the person who nominated him sought to recognize him simply for his work ethic, as the anonymous source...
On Tuesday, July 14, North Dakota Governor Burgum announced the statewide reopening of schools this fall, stating, “We are entering new territory this fall as we serve a dual purpose to our state: the education of all students and safeguarding the health and safety of students, staff, families, and communities.” In an effort to best serve more than 120,000 students throughout the state, Governor Burgum and State Superintendent Kristen Baesler introduced the North Dakota K-12 Smart Restart Guidelines. These guidelines offer school districts a co...
NR-S senior Chloe Guthmiller is recovering after a single-vehicle accident shattered a piece of her backbone. On Tuesday, June 30 at around 6 a.m., Chloe was traveling to New Rockford for weight and SPEED training, heading east on Hwy. 15 from her rural Cathay home. Her vehicle went off the road and slid into the ditch, then came upon Louie and Jeannie Schaefer's driveway where it stopped. Chloe recalls seeing what she thought was smoke coming from her vehicle, so she opened the driver door to e...
We are embarking on our fifth month of learning to live with the coronavirus, and it hasn't got any easier. Regardless of individual health or political beliefs, we have learned that living with uncertainty is difficult. Many would even say stressful. Here in Eddy County, residents have experienced very little of the impact of COVID-19 and its potential for community spread. Thus, we have been living our lives with a little more care and caution. Through the state, both testing and positive...
Eddy County Commission met Thursday, July 16 to continue reviewing budgets from county entities and organizations. Todd Weber, Eddy County Road Superintendent, presented the largest of the department budgets, totaling $1,136,500. The budget accommodates the purchase of two new blades at an estimated cost of $330,000 each. Eddy County Extension Agent Chandy Howard presented the budget for the NDSU Extension Eddy County Office, which totals $79,917. This is $5,000 less than was budgeted for 2020, due to recent personnel changes in the position of...
Con artists will go to great lengths to get between you and your money. Sadly, this includes taking advantage of your love for your family. Scammers are putting a new twist on an old scam that targets grandparents’ hearts and wallets. Scammers contact grandparents, claiming to be their grandchild or calling on behalf of their grandchild. With a nod to the pandemic, they will explain your grandchild fell ill and was rushing to the hospital and wrecked his car — and possibly even hurt someone — and is now in jail. They will ask you to send money...
For Carie Moore, a Rocklake, N.D., farm manager and president of North Dakota Agri-Women, the inability to go into fertilizer plants earlier this spring on top of suddenly juggling farming responsibilities with the online education of her children was a lot to handle. Additionally, the social aspect of the farming community felt diminished when 4H events began to be canceled here and across the country, she said. "Those are my getaways where I get away from the farm, from the kids and...
New Rockford-Sheyenne school board met on Monday, July 20 for the first organizational meeting of the 2020-2021 school year. The board is comprised of seven members, each of whom will have added responsibilities in the year ahead. On Tuesday, July 14, Governor Burgum made the announcement that schools are expected to be in operation this fall under a new set of guidelines. Superintendent Jill Louters provided an overview of the guidelines and expectations. The details of this re-entry process are published on this week’s front page. Current b...
Jake, Amanda, Fallyn and Piper Hegland spent the Fourth of July weekend with Amanda’s parents in Gettysburg, S.D. Last Friday, Tom and Pam Schmid took Pam’s brother Dan Hermanson to Grand Forks so he could have surgery on his broken arm. A wish for a speedy recovery to Dan. Jakob and Alison were home for the weekend from Bismarck. Lester Roberts visited Lezlee Thorson at her lake lot on Tuesday. Lester visited Kenny and Eloise Ploium and also Mark Stenberg in Oberon on Wednesday. Lester also visited Janice Ferry at the Home of the Good She...
Martin Koepplin and KC stopped briefly at the Charlotte Koepplin home Friday afternoon. Recent visitors at the Margie Anderson home were her brother Glen Cudworth and niece Cheryl Erhardt. Monday morning, Cory Jorgensen was a coffee guest at the Ervin Longnecker home. Jimmy Indergaard accompanied Andy and Ruth Braaten to New Rockford last Sunday and enjoyed Songs on Central. Jimmy’s nieces, Noelle and Nikki Braaten, were among the singers. Saturday Janet Laube and YipYip were visitors, bringing pizza to share for supper, at the Charlotte K...
Tuesday morning, Janet Laube accompanied Charlotte Koepplin to Devils Lake where Charlotte had an appointment at the eye clinic. The gals enjoyed breakfast at Mr. and Mrs. J’s, did a little shopping and returned to New Rockford. Glen Cudworth and Cheryl Erhardt visited wife and mother, Judy Cudworth one afternoon at Lutheran Home of the Good Shepherd, where she is recuperating from ankle surgery. Brief stopper, Friday, at the Shirley Packard home was Kevin Johnson. Ken and Marvis Holte drove to Jamestown, Wednesday, where they did some s...
Much of the nation is experiencing a prolonged heat wave, so of course your humble columnist counterintuitively conjures up WARM MEMORIES to comfort himself. When I was in college, I sometimes supplemented my income by helping my late father with deliveries for Easy Pay Tire Store (the tires-and-appliances store where he worked for the Ritter family). One delivery should have been routine (installing an air conditioner for a countryfied elderly couple I had known since my high school job at...
Good grief: Apparently, America has yet to move past the anger phase regarding COVID-19. In 1969, you see, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. According to Fast Company, researchers from Singapore, China, Australia and Switzerland analyzed more than 20 million Twitter posts from 7 million users in 170 countries to gauge people’s state of mind regarding the coronavirus. Using keywords such as “Wuhan” and “corona,” they found...
No one wants to return to in-person teaching and learning more than North Dakota’s professional educators. The women and men who have dedicated their lives to educating our future know better than anyone about the physical, intellectual, and psychological benefits that in-person instruction affords our children. But no matter how anxious we are to return to the classroom and meet face to face with our students, we must do so only when we have mitigated the risk to the health of students and staff to the greatest extent possible. In leaving t...
On Sunday, August 2, the "JT Rice North Dakota Chapter of Pilots for Christ" will be hosting a FREE Golf Ball Drop and Celebration fly-in. This is the eighth annual ball drop for the organization and again this year the members would like to give back in appreciation of all that has been given to them through donations of time, talent, resources, and funding. The group formed a prize committee to choose prizes to be given away. The committee chose 1) a gas grill. 2) a one-hour helicopter tour....
Within the Christian life, there are many pillars of truth which are critical to our spiritual development and one of these is discernment. The word may have several meanings, but mostly it's associated with having spiritual sensitivity. Within the Biblical view it is used to identify whether something is good or evil and being able to interpret and understand God's voice. You see, we cannot hear what he is saying if we are not walking close to him or even aware of his presence. It's elementary...
There was a television program some time ago, reruns continue today. “Fraiser” was based on a psychiatrist who had given up private practice and now had a radio program where people would call in with problems of various levels of seriousness, though usually intended to be humorous. On one particular episode, the psychiatrist was told that he had to have a little song to be played as an intro to his program. Eventually, at the program’s ending, what they came up with was if you wanted help, no matter what your problem, if you wanted help,...
During the week of May 24 to 30, 1903, plumbers were piping [underground?] the new acetylene gas lighting plant at Lamborn and Dakota on two corner lots, just west of the Baptist Church; the actual construction of the 25x30 building with a lean-to was set to begin the next week. Anyone wishing to use gas lights should have their piping done while the plumbers were in town to avoid paying more later. The plant would open about August 1. Many businessmen had already placed their buildings and...
Dear Savvy Senior, Can you offer some good stretching tips for seniors who are staying home during the pandemic? I’ve gotten so stiff and achy in recent years that I have a hard time doing basic activities like bending over to tie my shoes. Stiff as a Board Dear Stiff, Of all possible exercises, stretching tends to be the most neglected, yet nothing is more vital to keeping an aging body limber and injury-free. As we age, our muscles naturally lose their elasticity if you’re not active, whi...
The July 6 installment of Archival Anecdotes featured two photos, both representative of a New Rockford parade celebration sometime in the early half of the 20th century. However, the two photos were not from the same event as the article implied. Two readers submitted evidence and offered insight to the clues they had used to draw their conclusions. In college, I had a professor of anthropology who blatantly told me, "You will not make a good archaeologist. You get too caught up in the story...
On Tuesday, July 21 the Pink Sox headed to Devils Lake to avenge their Ponytail League champion status from 2019. They had a bye in the first round, and took on Devils Lake 2 in the semifinal round after recording just three losses in the entire season. At the mound for the Pink Sox was Lora Wobbema. Devils Lake was up to bat first, scoring two runs. The Pink Sox fought back hard, scoring three in inning one. Inning two Devils Lake scored nothing and Pink Sox score three more points. The defense...
Thursday, July 16 the New Rockford Babe Ruth team took on Devils Lake. Both teams appeared to bring their A-game at the offset. In the first inning Devils Lake struck first with one run. The Black Sox came back and scored a run of their own from Connor Knatterud to tie up the game at the end of the first inning. In the second inning, Devils Lake found lots of success as they were able to score four runs and build a lead. Unfortunately the Sox were unable to answer back, as they couldn't match th...
On Friday, July 15, the Cal Ripken Black Sox faced off against Harvey for an afternoon showdown in New Rockford. Both teams seemed to be fired up, but it was the Sox that got off to an amazing start. In the first inning, the Black Sox started the game strong with four runs. The succession of scoring began with Skye Kramlich and Thomas Allmaras followed by Alex Weisenburger and Dashyl Bichler. Harvey managed to score as well, but only once, giving the Sox a three-run lead at the end of the first...
There are few hunters that I envy. Content with the options I have close to home for the limited species I pursue each fall with the time I can muster, I enjoy the success and adventures of my friends and relish hearing their stories from far off places or lucky tag draws when we meet up for a reunion around a summer campfire or when hunched over a set of ice holes in the winter following the season. Even complete strangers who email me out of the blue with their tales light up my screen with te...
