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After almost a year of vacancy at the position, CHI St. Alexius Health Carrington Medical Clinic and Urgent Care has a new manager. Shannon Mehring took over in her new post on October 24, and is responsible for overseeing health care provider scheduling and other personnel as the multi-site manager for CHI clinics in Carrington, Devils Lake and New Rockford. "I'm a people person, have good communication skills, and am driven and team-oriented," Mehring says of the positives she brings to the...
Patrons of the Pingree-Buchanan School District are scheduled to go to the polls Monday, November 21, to vote yea or nay to a proposed $4.5 million addition to the elementary school in Buchanan. The vote will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. that day at P-B Elementary. In a press release sent by the district, the PBSD is seeking the community's help to pass a bond referendum that would release funds for the project. The referendum needs a 60 percent supermajority to pass. An initial meeting for...
In the Monday, October 31 edition of the Independent, a photo was published of Headlocks Bar owner Dennis Freeman and his wife, Karmen, playing host to Minnesota Vikings legend Chuck Foreman for autographs and fan conversation Saturday, October 22. But, as the late radio broadcaster Paul Harvey said, you haven't heard "the rest of the story." As it turned out, there was a mechanical issue with Foreman's car after he made his rounds in Carrington, and he was unable to drive back to the Twin...
One remarkable streak of sustained excellence for the Carrington volleyball program went by the wayside at the District 5 Tournament at Barnes County North School in Leal, but a much more important one lives on. For every year since they moved to District 5 from their old home of District 7, the Cards have played in the tournament championship match, a string dating back to 2015. This year, however, CHS had to qualify for the Region 3 Tournament in Napoleon through the back door, following a...
A tough season for the Griggs/Midkota Titans, which came with an emergency coaching change part way through the schedule, came to an end in the qualifying round at the District 5 Tournament at Barnes County North. The Titans dropped their first match to Carrington (see related story) on Thursday, October 27, then kept their season alive with a win in the Friday loser-out match against the host Bison (25-14, 27-25, 25-22). Last Monday, with a Region 3 berth on the line, the Ed...
Seeded third going into the District 6 Tournament in Ashley, the Medina/Pingree-Buchanan Thunder rebounded from a semifinal setback to make their way back to the Region 3 Tourney. The Thunder opened with a three-set win over the #6 seed Kidder County Wolves (26-24, 25-9, 25-20) Friday, October 28, behind 14 kills and 24 digs from junior outside hitter Allison Thomas. Combining for 14 kills as well were Brynn Sorenson and Maddie Gefroh, and Sorenson also had 20 digs for M-P-B. Kidder County...
The latest three-class high school basketball proposal hit its stated threshold of statewide support from school districts on October 26, and is expected to be voted on within days. A focus group represented by Valley City Superintendent Josh Johnson has managed to garner over 75 letters of support for the plan, which would create a middle class (Class A) between the current Class A (AA under the new alignment) and Class B. The North Dakota High School Activities Association (NDHSAA) Board of...
The drives back and forth on Highway 281, along with being a multi-sport fall athlete and full-time student, didn't deter Carrington High School senior Jack Paulson from accomplishing the highest individual honor bestowed by another high school's athletic team. Jack, the son of Matt and Tiffany Paulson, has been named Most Valuable Player for the Jamestown Blue Jays boys' soccer team for the 2022 season. Playing for Head Coach Brandi Harty, Paulson finished his three-season varsity career for...
The Cathay School complex, vacant since the closure of the 1979-80 school year and used sporadically for community functions for a period of time afterwards, has been marked for demolition since last December. Originally, the plan was to tear down the school building and attached gymnasium this past spring, but delays in getting asbestos and insulation removed backed up the process to the present time. The Wells County Board of Commissioners took another step towards razing the structure at...
A piece of the Foster County Fairgrounds will be repurposed for a new life on a cattle farm just outside of Fessenden. The former rabbit/poultry judging building, which was also used as the home of food vendors at the fairgrounds for many years until the new building was built in 2012, was pulled off its concrete foundation last Tuesday morning, October 25, and taken to its future home, where it will be utilized as a calving barn, according to Darwin Solberg of the Foster County Fair Board....
From her home on the shores of Stump Lake just north of Tolna, Tracie Hill has built up a thriving independent business. It All Adds Up provides full and partial payroll services to fit small (and sometimes larger) businesses' needs, through Hill's expertise with Intuit's QuickBooks accounting software program. She and her business partner and significant other, Joe Johnson, operate the business from Joe's house on Tolna Bay. "Joe and I do all the bookkeeping and payroll for our 50-plus clients...
Historically, the final match of the season for the Carrington volleyball team has proved one to be very hard to pencil in as a sure thing. A pair of set victories might have given the Cardinals a false sense of complacency, one that the M-P-B Thunder was all to eager to exploit. When their backs were against the wall, the Thunder never said die, and rallied for a stirring 3-2 (21-25, 19-25, 25-18, 25-20, 15-13) victory to finish up the regular season for both teams ahead of their district tourn...
Two University of Jamestown volleyball players with local ties have made strong contributions to the Jimmies' continued success. Senior outside hitter Kadyn Mehring and junior defensive specialist Megan Moser have seen extensive court time for the U of J, currently ranked second in the NAIA poll and owning a 25-2 overall record, 12-1 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC). Mehring has appeared in eight matches this season and 19 sets. She has 30 kills, a rate of 1.6 per set, and a...
Minnesota State University Moorhead linebacker Kaden Wolsky, son of Kevin and Jennifer Wolsky of Carrington, has made his presence felt for the Dragons football program. Kaden, standing at 6'1" and 235 pounds, has made a total of 12 tackles in eight games, with eight solo and four assisted stops. He has one tackle for loss for three yards, that recorded against Minnesota-Duluth on October 1. His two top performances came in games against Bemidji State (46-7 loss) with three solo tackles, and...
At Parkhurst Recreation Area Friday, October 21, Carrington sophomore Kenadie Pazdernik had another strong finishing kick to conclude a successful season on area courses. Pazdernik, who took 12th among all girls' runners last season, improved that standing to seventh with a final time of 20 minutes, 3.25 seconds at the State Class B Meet held north of Jamestown. The team races at the 2022 meet belonged to the present dynasties. The Rugby Panthers won their fourth consecutive girls' championship...
The "beginner's luck" theory was turned on its metaphorical head when Carrington native Savanna Buskness strapped on the weight belt for her first-ever powerlifting competition on Sunday, October 2. Is setting a state record good enough? Savanna, the daughter of Robert and Karen Buskness, established a new statewide standard of 881.2 pounds for the 90-kilogram (kg) weight class in the United States Powerlifting Association's (USPA) North Dakota Open in Fargo. She lifted in high school as part...
Since she was a nine-year-old girl on the farm in rural Glenfield, Nicole Edland has been at home around horses. "I didn't start riding until I was [that age]," she says. "But I've been hooked since." Being around them, seeing how they work with humans, and building a special bond with each and every equine athlete she's had the pleasure to ride, has served Edland well in the sport of rodeo. This past month, Nicole was honored as the Women's Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) Badlands...
Carrington concluded their District 5 season with four wins in six total matches, and are slated to be the number three seed in the upcoming tournament in Leal starting this Thursday. The Cardinals ended league play with a 3-0 (25-13, 25-20, 25-13) win over Griggs/Midkota last Monday night, October 17, following another three-set sweep four nights earlier over Kidder County by the count of 25-14, 25-15 and 25-20. Intra-regional play against Kidder County saw the return of the annual "Pink...
No matter the language, the Griggs/Midkota Titans faced a few lupine-named opponents in their week's worth of matches on the court. The Titans fell in a District 5 match to the top-seeded LaMoure/Litchville-Marion Loboes, 17-25, 18-25 and 9-25, on Friday night, October 14 in LaMoure, then dropped three sets in a loss to the Wolves of Kidder County, 23-25, 13-25, 10-25, last Tuesday evening in Glenfield. Statistics from the matches were not available, but will be printed in next week's...
In Glenfield Thursday night, October 13, the M-P-B Thunder got their 20th win of the season with a 25-20, 25-5 and 25-14 blanking of the Griggs/Midkota Titans on the volleyball floor. Allison Thomas led the Thunder (20-9 overall) with 12 kills and 26 digs. The M-P-B service line was also effective with 14 total aces in the match, and Maddie Gefroh's left-handed serve was an outsized part of that with six aces on her own. Gefroh also had a good match up front for the Thunder offense with 10...
One shot, and one opportunity for the Carrington Cardinals to break through to the Class 11B playoffs presented itself Friday night, October 14 in Langdon. But their postseason dreams effectively came to a crashing halt almost from the opening kickoff, as Langdon/Edmore/Munich made six takeaways and were brutally efficient with their short fields given to them to end CHS' season at 3-5 with a 42-0 shutout. The loss put an end to a late-season resurgence by Carrington, who started the year 0-4...
Led by a third-place overall effort by sophomore Kenadie Pazdernik, the Carrington girls earned a top 10 team finish at the East Region cross country meet in Cooperstown Saturday, October 15. Pazdernik trailed just east champion Jenna Soine of Hatton-Northwood and Amelia Shepard of Rugby in running 19 minutes, 52.9 seconds. The trio were the only girls runners to surpass the 20-minute mark for the race. The Cards placed 10th with 309 team points, and three-time defending State B champion Rugby's...
Traci Lura's (top) and Mark Pazdernik's (bottom) fifth grade classes at Carrington Elementary School took their annual field trip to the Foster County Museum recently to take in a bit of historical education on their Carrington and surrounding area forefathers. They each had a lesson in the original 1885 schoolhouse, and took in the exhibits at the museum during the morning....
The 2022 football season for Griggs/Midkota started with the carryover of a long losing streak, but has ended with two wins and promise that things could be looking up for the Titans. G-M put all phases of their game together in the season finale Friday night, October 7, in Cooperstown, taking a 34-6 win over the Tri-State Tigers to end at 2-6 overall. "For at least the last six years, our seniors have given everything they've had to the program," first-year Head Coach Ryan Dockter said. "The...
The most tell-tale sign of weekend success for the Carrington Cardinals, specifically when they host their Varsity Tournament, is when they play well enough to stay in the West Gym for all six games. CHS came out on the winning end of all 12 of their sets, earned the top overall seed and took the championship Saturday afternoon, October 8, with a two-set win over the M-P-B Thunder (25-13 in both games). Starting bright and early at 8 a.m., the Cards took Pool A victories against HWC, Velva and...
