New Rockford Transcript - Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

“She ripped off the school district and you were an accomplice to it.”

Those pointed words from District Court Judge, Donovan Foughty, were directed at Carolyn Nelson during a sentencing hearing in Devils Lake on Friday, Jan. 27.

Nelson, a former elected member of the Oberon School Board, had been found guilty of conspiring with Laura Schnieber-Bruns (LSB) to steal over $150,000 from the Ob...