The Sargent County Teller – May 28, 2021

Ransom County Gazette – May 31, 2021

A new end-of-the-year tradition

May 25 marks the last day of classes for schools in the May-Port CG District, but that morning began a new tradition. May-Port CG principal La Lynda Blotsky suggested seniors from the Class of 2021 join Peter Boe Jr. Elementary School youngsters in their traditional parade on the last day of school. The first-time event was as organized as you […]

TCEDC awards Beautification, Child Care Grants

By James R. Johnson • news@tctribune.net The Traill County Economic Development Commission had no fewer than 24 applications for its Beautification and Child Care Grants. Marketing Committee chairman Dr. Brian Van Horn told his fellow TCEDC directors that the grants will generate $248,124 in total investment in Traill County. He recommended the board approve the applications. Directors did so, adding […]

Barn dances to return at Lindaas farm

By James R. Johnson • news@tctribune.net The threat of COVID-19 kept 2020 summer months quiet on the Elroy Lindaas farm east of Mayville. For the first time in 30 summers, there were no barn dances. It didn’t feel like summer without the music of the Hay Shakers echoing from the loft on warm Saturday nights and people, young to elderly, […]

Everybody back into the pool!

By James R. Johnson • news@tctribune.net A welcome attraction returns this summer along East Main Avenue in Mayville. The city’s swimming pool closed last summer for two reasons, the first being the threat of COVID-19, but the primary factor was a leak. “We have narrowed the leak down to a few areas,” David Torgeson of the Mayville Park Board told […]

Weekly COVID vaccination clinics set

Traill District Health will administer a COVID vaccination clinic from 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 2 in the COVID trailer outside the Traill County Courthouse. This will be a clinic to offer a second COVID shot for students who received their first vaccination May 7 or May 10. Other students age 12 years and older who have not had […]

School Board elections to be held June 8

School Board elections will be held Tuesday, June 8 at four school polling sites in Traill County. Three seats at May-Port CG are running unopposed: Andy Neset, rural Mayville; Jeremy Strand, rural Portland; and James Aarsvold, Clifford-Galesburg. In Hatton, Dennis Heskin and Brad Enger are not seeking reelection to the Hatton Eielson School Board. Three people are running for the […]

Hillsboro School District hires three

The Hillsboro School Board moved May 25 to finalize and sign a collective bargaining agreement between the board and the Hillsboro Education Association. The total adjustment over two years is a 4.34 percent increase. In Fiscal Year 2021-22, the base salary is adjusted $1,050 with an experience step of $625 and a $500 longevity step for teachers who are 34 […]

Holman among Rural and Public Health award recipients

Rick Holman, former District 20 Representative to the North Dakota Legislature, will receive the Rural Health Legislator of the Year Award during the 36th annual Dakota Conference on Rural and Public Health, taking place June 2-4.The virtual program will present awards to 12 outstanding rural health advocates, including Holman and Brian Twete, a family nurse practitioner at Northwood Deaconness Health […]