The Official Newspaper for Foster County
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The North Dakota Game and Fish Department completed its annual spring mule deer survey in May, and results indicate western North Dakota's mule deer population is 13% higher than last year and 34% above the long-term average. Biologists counted 2,923 mule deer in 298.8 square miles during this year's survey. The overall mule deer density in the badlands was 9.8 deer per square mile. Big game management supervisor Bruce Stillings said he is encouraged with current mule deer densities across the b...
It isn't a district game when Carrington's and New Rockford's Babe Ruth baseball programs meet up with each other, but the competitive juices don't flow any less. The home-standing Black Sox overcame an early 4-2 hole with three runs in the bottom of the fourth, and held the Redbirds off the scoreboard for the final four innings in a 5-4 victory early Tuesday afternoon, June 21. New Rockford's mid-game rally made a winner out of Skye Kramlich. The Sox righty allowed five Redbird hits in a...
Riders with the Fuller Center for Housing's Bike Adventure, a cross-country tour from Oregon to Maine, finished their 53-mile stage from Harvey to Carrington Thursday afternoon, June 16, and stopped to rest at Trinity Lutheran Church. The tour aims to raise awareness for the plight of people who currently live in housing at near-or-below poverty levels, and to raise money for new home construction for such persons....
Workers spent time last week dismantling Stadium '76 at the CHS track and football field to make room for a new structure. Built in the summer of 1976 (thus the name), the general contractor then was Jim Bronaugh, assisted by volunteers of the Carrington Quarterback Club. The original stadium was made possible by a generous donation from Foster County State Bank. The new stadium is expected to be in place by the opening of the fall football season. Other contractors on the 1976 project were...
Nineteen members of the Fessenden-Bowdon FFA Chapter recently participated in the 93rd North Dakota State FFA Convention. The Convention was held on the NDSU campus June 6-9. Highlighting the week's action for the Fessenden-Bowdon FFA was the election of Regan Jones as the State FFA Treasurer. Jones went through two days of intensive Screening Committee meetings before being nominated and finally elected as the next treasurer of the North Dakota FFA Association. Other major highlights were the...
Jacob Rexin, a 2022 graduate and valedictorian of Carrington High School, is the 2022 recipient of the LeRoy Hart Memorial Scholarship. LeRoy Hart was born and raised in Carrington and was well-known and respected. He was dedicated to his family, committed to being a positive part of our community, and took great pride in farming and ranching. LeRoy passed away on January 31, 2020, and this scholarship was established the same year in his honor. The $1000 scholarship was sponsored by the Hart...
Carrington Medical Center is planning an open house for staff and all auxiliary members on Thursday, June 30 from 2 to 4 p.m. The event will be in the CMC West Conference Room through door No. 5 on the north side. In other auxiliary news, the Happy Heart Hutch will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays. The Hutch is receiving new merchandise and everything in the shop will be 20 percent off for the summer. Also, the Carrington Medical Center is hosting a Blood Drive at Trinity Lutheran Church on Monday, August 8 from...
The North Dakota 9-1-1 Association in cooperation with local Public Safety Answering Points, is requesting that any person using or contracting for the use of in home or mobile medical alert devices, please keep your vendor updated whenever you change your address. In communications throughout the state, we have found that all vendors we were able to contact have put the updating of your place of residence as the responsibility of the owner/lessee of the devices. In cases happening in North Dakota, when Medical Assistance Devices were used,...
Carrington Garden Club honors Steven and Judy Volk's yard at 65 First St. N. as Yard of the Week. Thanks to Runnings and the Garden Club for sponsoring this promotion. Nominations are welcome. Contact Laurie at the Chamber EDC office: 652-2524 or email: chambergal@daktel.com....
Outdoor notes: *Fireworks prohibited on U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Nat’l. Wildlife Refuges and N.D. Game & Fish Wildlife Mgmt. Areas (WMA). *July 1: Deadline for electronic “no trespass” posting. Go to the N.D. Game & Fish Dept. for information. Tournaments: *July 9: Devils Lake, Creel Bay. *July 9 & 10: Devils Lake, AIM Tournament. Fishing: *Devils Lake elevation, June 20: 1,450.82 feet above mean sea level (MSL). *Stump Lake elevation: 1,450.69 MSL. *Lake Sakakawea elevation: 1,832.92MSL; 20,100 cubic feet per second average (CFS) Garri...
