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Jacob Rexin speaks softly, but lets his work ethic from growing up on his family's farm near Sykeston shine through in everything he does. Whether it's on the golf course (running cross country or playing golf), the track, the baseball field, the FFA arena or the classroom, Jacob has demonstrated his athletic and academic chops. Rexin, a senior at Carrington High School, was recently named to the Gold Team of the North Dakota Academic All-State Teams, sponsored by the North Dakota Association...
(Editor's Note: This article is the seventh in a series highlighting Carrington, Foster and Wells County-area parents of twins, triplets, or any other multiple births.) Melissa (Munkeby) Speldrich and her husband, Tim, were perfectly happy as a family of five with three kids back in 2013. Then, the first surprise came in the form of their unplanned arrival, Kallen, to make it an even six in their household in Fisher, Minn., just southeast of Grand Forks. "We were sure we were done after he...
Brecken Lura (138 pounds), Michael Clifton (182) and Trace Hoggarth (113) were crowned state champions for the Carrington Cardinals at the State B Individual Wrestling Tournament Friday night, February 18....
This group of young Carrington ladies, circa 1950s, were known as the "Rollercade Review." They performed at the Rainbow Garden Ballroom as well as other venues in the state. The group was under the direction of Wes and Marie Kallberg with costumes and set designs by Claire Ihringer. Due to budget matters, the group performed at only a few sites around the state, but did feature shows in Bismarck, Jamestown and Petersburg, N.D. Members of the revue, some who still remain in the area, include,...
The counties and cities within the state of North Dakota hold many interesting news stories. Here are just a few of the feature stories that others are reading in communities around the state. Kenmare office mines bitcoin A small computer churns away 24 hours a day at a downtown Kenmare office, generating $800 per month for its owner. The computer is mining for bitcoin, a digital currency. Aside from the computer, which doesn’t really resemble a common office computer, the office is empty. It’s...
Carrington High School organizations will hold a food drive for Carrington Daily Bread on Saturday, March 12 from 9:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m., at the Carrington Elementary School. Donors will drive through the elementary parking lot and students will pick up donations. Cash or checks to the Carrington Daily Bread will also be accepted. This food drive is sponsored by the National Honor Society, Student Council, FCCLA, FFA, FBLA, and Sources of Strength. Also, during the week of March 7 -11, a food donation box will be placed in each of the...
12 Years Ago March 6, 1947 A number of churches are now being served by Rev. Sippert Will. It has been revealed that First Lutheran Church in Winsor, a town 20 miles west of Jamestown, has joined with the Grace Lutheran Church in Carrington to form one parish. Miss Dolores Suydam, Bordulac, assumed duties as deputy county superintendent of schools this week. Now in operation at Trinity Lutheran Church is a new oil burner recently installed in the furnace. Automatic in operation, it keeps the...
Dakota Datebook written by Christina Sunwall. Abraham Lincoln became President of the United States during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history. By 1860, the issue of the expansion of slavery into western territories was threatening to tear the country apart in the three months following the 1860 presidential election, seven southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. This was the situation Abraham Lincoln faced upon taking the oath of office, on March 4, 1861. Despite rain that morni...
Amid all this wonderful wintery weather we’ve been experiencing, it may appear that no work is getting done. To the contrary, winter is what I refer to as “planning season.” Whether we gaze out the window from our warm offices or hunker down by the fireplace in our homes, our wheels are turning thinking about the months ahead. What kind of a year will we have? When and where will we travel? How many weddings and graduations are on the calendar? Do we have proper attire for them all? Here at the...
I’m sure you all remember Craig Cobb? He was a self-proclaimed white nationalist who came to the Grant County community of Leith and tried to take over the town by buying up properties and bringing like-minded individuals to Leith. Cobb caused quite a stir that lasted a long time. His actions manufactured a lot of stress for the Leith City Council, the Grant County Commission and Sheriff’s Department and even the state of North Dakota. Sometime after the “siege of Leith” ended, Cobb, in 2015, a...
As discussed in last week’s column, rape is a crime in which victims are traumatized for life and the perpetrator experiences none of the pain and shame. The lives of the victims are shattered; some never recover. The consequences are so serious that even though I believe in the sanctity of life as a Christian principle, I would not want to live in Texas where the government has decided to increase the punishment by putting a bounty on any woman opting for abortion. Is it the proper role for t...
Jason Guthmiller Jason Lee Guthmiller, 46, of Moorhead, Minn., passed away on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, in Rochester, Minn., at the Methodist Hospital after a brief battle with Aplastic anemia. Jason was born on July 16, 1975, to Vernon and Betty (Rath) Guthmiller at Bismarck, N.D. He grew up in Pettibone, N.D., and graduated from Pettibone High School in 1994. He held a degree in IT and plumbing from Moorhead Technical College. Jason was employed at Corporate Technologies just before he got... Full story
I had the opportunity to go to a warmer state south of us, not Florida- or Arizona-warm but warmer than North Dakota. I really didn’t know what to pack. I have three levels of coats for winter and three for fall/spring. I brought my Level 1 winter coat. For all of January, I have been wearing my Level 3 “we’re in the middle of a blizzard” full-length coat with a hood. I look like a brown bear in it. When I arrived in Missouri, people were walking around in light sweatshirts. Others were wearing...
"From now until 2060, we're going to have to produce as much food as we've produced in the last 500 years," says Jerry Hatfield in the 2018 documentary "Living Soil." Hatfield is the retired director of the USDA's National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment. He was also my major professor at Iowa State University. Hatfield continues, "If we want to make sure we can feed the world's population, we're going to have to . . . make sure that our soil has the capability of producing these...
Dear Savvy Senior, How effective is the shingles vaccine and what is the CDC recommendation for getting it? My older brother and sister, both in their fifties, got COVID a few months back followed by shingles. Do you know if there is a connection between these viruses, and would the shingles vaccine have protected them? Scared of Shingles Dear Scared, Great question! Many healthcare professionals across the country have been urging their older patients to get the shingles vaccine (in addition...
They may not have had the biggest team at the State B Individual Wrestling Tournament, but the ones who showed up for Carrington made the longest-lasting impact. Three Cardinal wresters captured state championships, and one other made the finals match in their respective weight classes Thursday and Friday, February 17-18, at the Fargodome. 2022’s tournament marked the end of the legendary careers of seniors Brecken Lura and Michael Clifton with state championships, and another senior, Matthew D...
Carrington, in spite of their open weights, made it a productive Saturday afternoon at the State B Dual Wrestling Tournament. The Cards bounced back from a first-round 46-18 loss to New Salem-Almont, and took the next two matches to claim the consolation championship February 19. On the way, the Cards avenged two losses to the Central Cass Squirrels in the regular season and Region 2 Tournament, 38-33, and got a match-clinching pin to earn a tight 40-36 win over the Honkers of...
The District 5 Tournament in Jamestown was in the sights of the Carrington Cardinals, but they had one last bit of business to tend to before playoff basketball. The Cards took a 71-54 win over the May-Port-CG Patriots at Finley-Sharon High School February 17, in which they shot an efficient 56.9 percent from the field. Lucas Hendrickson again blistered the MPCG interior defense by going 9-for-17 and hitting five of his six shots from the line for 23 points, his sixth game of more than 20...
The HWC boys’ basketball team finished the regular season like every head coach would like - on a win streak. This particular streak for HWC moved to four games this week with double-digit road victories over Washburn and Towner-Granville-Upham. HWC 66, Washburn 56 It took nearly the full 32 minutes to put away the Washburn Cardinals, but in the end, HWC did just that with a seven-point second half advantage, and a 10-point victory in Washburn on Thursday, February 17. Washburn took the advantage in the first quarter, as Aiden Parrill hit t...
The Langdon/Edmore/Munich girls basketball team wasted little time in eliminating the Harvey-Wells County Hornets in the Region 4 Girls Basketball Tournament held Monday, February 21 at the Devils Lake Sports Center. Three-point plays were in abundance in the first quarter for the Cardinals, as Jaya Henderson hit two and Jalynn Swanson connected on another. Morgan Freije tallied an old-fashioned 3-pointer and Swanson just missed a free throw to add another as L/E/M jumped out on the Hornets, 22-5, after one. HWC played much better in the...
There aren’t too many examples of basketball games in which the score is tied at every quarter break in regulation. But that’s the situation that the M-P-B Thunder and Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier Rebels found themselves in their regular season finale in Edgeley Thursday, February 17. Knotted up at 6-6, 20-20, 28-28 and 41-41, one made basket from the Rebels’ Adam Nitschke made all the difference in four minutes of overtime play, and a 43-42 setback for the Thunder. Nitschke led E-K-M with 16 point...
Boys’ Basketball Tuesday, February 15 M-P-B 65, Stras.-Zeeland 31 M-P-B finished up their District 6 slate on February 15, taking a 65-31 victory at the expense of the Clippers in Strasburg. Ten different players scored for the Thunder, led by Josh Moser’s 21 points. M-P-B hit nine three-pointers in the contest, spread among seven different shooters. S-Z (0-17, 0-5 District 6) received a 14-point effort by junior Devin Feist. The Thunder entered the District 6 Tournament in Napoleon as the number one seed with a 14-5 record. They earned a fir...
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