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The good feelings that accompanied the first week-and-change of the 2023 volleyball season for the M-P-B Thunder took a few temporary setbacks Thursday evening, August 31, in Edgeley, and last Tuesday night in New Rockford. In a 3-1 (25-23, 21-25, 17-25, 23-25) loss to the Edgeley-Kulm/Montpelier Rebels, the Thunder battled point-by-point, but couldn't get the crucial points late in sets to hold off an athletic home squad. Junior Maddie Gefroh's 14 kills were a team-best, trailed closely behind...
John Raymond O'Hara American Legion Post 25 of Carrington took a giant step towards securing its future viability as a veterans' service organization. At a community meeting held on Tuesday, August 22, at the Carrington City Library, the post elected Tom Sauby as the new Commander of Post 25 and Ryan Zink the new Adjutant. The ascension of Sauby and Zink ensures that "younger blood" will oversee the leadership of the post for the foreseeable years to come, and that recruitment of younger local...
In one of the track-and-field capitals of Class B, Logan Weninger showed that football pads were no impediment to chunks of yardage with his legs. The senior running back and long sprint ace for the Cardinals in the spring busted out for 190 yards on the ground, and 81 more on a kickoff return, and scored five touchdowns to help CHS zoom to a 48-14 win over the Rugby Panthers at Johnsen Field in Rugby. Weninger averaged just under 16 yards a carry with his 12 attempts, and even gave a subtle...
Wyndmere/Lidgerwood made sure that the Griggs/Midkota Titans had an uphill climb ahead of them, with 22 points in the first quarter. The Titans didn't answer until the Warbirds had their fourth touchdown on the board, and the longtime southeast nine-man power cruised to another win, 48-14, in Wyndmere Friday night, August 25. "We got off to a rough start, but the offense was able to get in sync and made some good drives towards the end of the 2nd quarter," said G-M Coach Ryan Dockter. "In the...
M-P-B rolled out the welcome mats for the Griggs/Midkota Titans in both teams' first regulation-length matches of the season. The Thunder came straight off a very-strong performance at the Northern Cass Tournament (see story below), while the Titans stepped to the nets for their opener. Behind 12 kills from junior Maddie Gefroh and nine more by Allison Thomas, the Thunder improved to 5-1 with a three-set sweep (25-13, 25-14 and 25-19). Brynn Sorenson added five kills, and led the M-P-B servers...
Just one calendar year ago, the Medina/Pingree-Buchanan Thunder took a 1-4 match record against all comers in their first action of the season, the Northern Cass Tournament in Hunter. One year later, and the Thunder have certainly turned some heads with their 2023 performance at the same event. M-P-B took down several Class B blue-bloods in surging to a mirror image 4-1 record this time around, and have served notice that they could be a possible contender in the Region 3 race. Playing in Pool...
Local schools Carrington and Medina/Pingree-Buchanan, along with a host of eastern Class A schools and a few others in the Class B ranks, took to Parkhurst Recreation Area north of Jamestown for the first meet of the cross country season. The 'Orr'iginals Invitational was held Saturday morning, August 26, in the wooded area just off Pipestem Reservoir. CHS had two runners earn top 20 status in their respective divisions, both on the girls' side. Junior and returning Class B All-Stater Kenadie...
The summer vacation for kids in western Foster County came to its end Tuesday, August 22, with the first day of school at Carrington Public Schools....
For the 2023-24 school year, Carrington Public School District #49 will will be welcoming several new teachers to serve the educational needs of area children. The elementary staff will largely remain unchanged, but there are five new instructors who will be teaching at the junior high to high school levels. Shania Gilliss The bond of family took precedence over all else in the previous school year, as Shania Gilliss stepped in admirably as a substitute for her sister, Jessica Skadberg, in the...
He stands 6'4", a solidly-built young adult of 19 years old, who has, so far, held his own against all that life has had to throw at him. Whether it be football, wrestling or the rodeo arena, Kaulder Kvamme, son of Jeff and Jona Kvamme of Carrington, has projected the image of quiet confidence, with a touch of cockiness and hint of a sassy attitude that his mom would argue he inherited from his dad. In the course of the last few months, however, that sense of youthful invulnerability has been...
Carrington stepped onto the turf for the first game of 2023, with a team short on depth, but high on potential playmaking ability. And according to the stat sheet, they accomplished the second part of that equation. However, the Bottineau Braves had just enough game-changers of their own to take a narrow 36-34 win in Carrington Friday night, August 18. In spite of 330 yards passing by Cardinal quarterback Josh Bickett, including four touchdowns, the Braves came out on top in the entertaining...
The Hatton/Northwood Thunder scored touchdowns in all four quarters to outdistance the Griggs/Midkota Titans, 28-8, in the opening week of football Friday night, August 18, in Northwood. Six-foot-three, 175-pound senior receiver Ander Thorsgard recorded three of those scores, beginning with a 14-yard run in the first quarter, and later crossing the pylons via both a run and pass completion, each covering 40 yards. Thunder quarterback Derek Carpenter threw two touchdown passes, one to Thorsgard...
The Gate City Bank branch in Carrington marked the financial institution's 100th year of service to customers in North Dakota and Minnesota with a celebratory Open House at the bank's location at 720 Main St. on Tuesday, August 15, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tasty treats, including cupcakes, cookies and chips and salsa, along with offerings from Basil by Travis Wong, were available to customers and prospective customers. Carrington branch personnel present to help celebrate the milestone occasion...
Football got their season going this past Friday night, and the girls' golf team hit the course for their first meet of the season last Monday. That leaves the volleyball and cross country seasons to make their debut for the 2023-24 school year, one which promises to be an exciting one for area athletes. Carrington The Cardinal football team started Coach Kyle Smith's eighth year at the helm this past Friday night with a home game against Bottineau, and travel on the road this upcoming week to...
Kacie Rexin placed third overall, as did her Cardinal golf teammates, at the season-opening tournament at Fargo Country Club Monday, August 14. Rexin, a senior and returning All-State golfer after finishing fourth at the State B Tournament in Minot last fall, shot an 18-hole score of 87 to finish 16 strokes off the winning medalist performance by Kindred's Avery Bartels. Oak Grove's Sylvie Brantner was second, shooting 82. Also carding a top-10 performance was Molly Hansen, as she finished with...
Following her tenure as a summer intern at the Foster County Independent and New Rockford Transcript, Isabella Garr is on to her next journey. Garr, a 2022 CHS graduate who just completed her freshman year at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, will be serving an 18-month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is the daughter of Dr. Benjamin and Sonali Garr of Carrington, and has been called to serve mission work in Pocatello, Idaho. Her mission will be...
With the COVID-19 pandemic keeping students in varying degrees of lockdown measures in 2020, two young girls from different states but with common roots decided to share their lives' details with each other. Rowan Jess, daughter of Kirk and Karla Jess and an incoming sophomore at Carrington High School, became pen pals with Haley Theis, a freshman from Medina, Minn., and the daughter of Karri Theis, formerly of Carrington. "It's been very inspiring watching their relationship grow," Rowan's mom...
The opening schedule for the fall of 2022 didn't leave the Carrington Cardinal football team a lot of wiggle room. Three of their first four games in 11B - Region 2 came against eventual playoff teams, and all four ended in losses. An exciting back-and-forth win in Grafton got them on the board, and they then won three straight contests to give them a chance for a win-and-in game with Langdon/Edmore/Munich on the last game of the season for a playoff spot. One 42-0 loss later, and the Cards' sea...
The Carrington Redbirds 12-and-under baseball team traveled to the state Cal Ripken Tournament for that age group Thursday-Saturday, July 27-29, in Grafton. The eight-team tournament featured the Redbirds, along with host Grafton, Kidder County, Hazen-Beulah, Park River, Drayton, Thompson, and Star City (Velva). Participating clubs were placed in two round-robin pods, the American and National. Carrington was part of the National pod along with Thompson, Star City and Drayton. On Thursday, the...
There has been a flurry of activity surrounding Arrowwood Prairie Co-op, both in front of the convenience store in Carrington and at its corporate offices. An underground tank replacement project at the Cenex C-Store is nearing completion, and Arrowwood has also relocated their office to a new space at the former High Plains Equipment dealership building on the southeast corner of the Highways 52-281/200 intersection. General Manager Paul Klosterman says the construction activity at the store...
Carrington's annual National Night Out, an event highlighting local coordination and outreach with law enforcement, fire department, emergency medical services and other community programs, was held Tuesday night, August 1, at City Park....
Carrington Post 25 endured all the highs and lows of the postseason experience, packaged into three days of action at the State 'B' American Legion Baseball Tournament from the friendly confines of City Park July 26-28. The Redbirds, hoping to deliver one last championship for Head Coach Tim Ranum in his final games leading the program, instead finished in fourth place at the season-ending event. Play began Wednesday, July 26, with a 10-5 loss to three-time defending state titleist LaMoure Post...
Along with the State American Legion Baseball Tournament and various CHS class reunion activities, the Central City Bash hit Carrington July 26-30 for several days worth of downtown and community-wide events....
