Mayor Frank LaRocque presented a letter at the Nov. 19 Rugby City Council meeting from Affordable Housing Developers of Dickinson informing the City the developer had pulled out of a proposed affordable row housing development in the Chalmers Addition. Council member Jay Reinke proposed ...
After receiving a $100,000 donation from Jim and Gerd Tuchscherer of Balta last year, the Rugby Volunteer Fire Department searched and found the right vehicle to purchase. “We used it to purchase a new grass rig, replacing a 1978 Suburban. The donation is greatly appreciated,” Joel Berg, ...
Ask Delores Jaeger about a time in history after she was born and she will smile and tell you about the year and what was happening. If she has a photo saved in her electronic tablet, she will scroll until she finds it. Jaeger, a resident of Haaland Estates in Rugby who celebrated her 100th ...
Patricia “Pat” Ley, who served with the U.S. Army Reserve as a nurse, recalled a conversation with her dentist in 1956 when her dentist told her and some of her friends the Army was looking for nurses. Ley and her friends took the conversation seriously. Ley enlisted as a nurse and ...
A proposed row home project in the Chalmers Addition is back at square one after the developer informed the City of Rugby it would no longer be pursuing the project in light of recent resistance from other property owners in the addition at a Monday, Nov. 3, city council meeting. In a letter ...
After more than two hours of testimony that largely went against a proposed commercial swine operation, the Pierce County Planning and Zoning Board voted 6-0 Wednesday, Nov. 5, to recommend the county commission deny the application of Dakota SAO. The additional testimony came on top of two ...
Grandparents Gary and Donna Mayer of Rugby are torn with cheerful rivalry. Next weekend, Saturday, Nov. 8, their granddaughters, Haley and Taylor Mayer, will be on the field cheerleading for their college football team at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks. North Dakota State University and ...
Concerns about a proposed swine operation’s odor and impact on water supplies led to protests against its permit request at the Pierce County Planning and Zoning hearing Thursday, Oct. 16, in Rugby. Not all residents who attended the hearing opposed the plan of Dakota SAO II, LLP, which ...
She has toured five continents: Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America (South America) including North America and she has visited more than 100 countries. The Our Lady of Fatima statue made her way to St. Therese Little Flower Church in Rugby Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 4-5. Our Lady of Fatima ...
Natalie Wibe is the new Pierce County Extension agent. She started work Wednesday, Sept. 3. Wibe fills the position formerly held by Brenden Klebe. Wibe grew up in New Mexico. She received her degree in agriculture, business and economics with a minor in marketing and financing from New ...
