On Sunday, Oct. 17, 1999, at 1 p.m., a dedication ceremony was held for the newly constructed Henry A. Niewoehner Memorial Bell Tower in Rugby, and now 25 years later, the tower still proudly rings its bells for the Rugby community. The story of the Niewoehner Bell Tower actually begins back ...
Hospital employees, movers, engineers, technicians and administration staff fought the ferocious North Dakota winds on Monday to move equipment and supplies from the old hospital into the new Heart of America Medical Center in Rugby. The old hospital was placed where and when it was needed, ...
Rugby’s First Lutheran Church is coming up on its 125th anniversary and celebrations are set for next weekend Oct. 5-6. On Saturday, Oct. 5, there will be an open house from 2-4:30 p.m., with coffee, cookies, bars and historic memorabilia including photographs, quilts and old ...
A month ago, Renae Dockter of Rugby received a positive test result for West Nile Virus (WNV) and is the only one with a confirmed case of WNV in Pierce County at this time. “Mosquitoes are just a way of life where we live,” said Dockter. “I really didn’t worry about it a lot and I ...
The fourth annual Knights and Princesses Dance, sponsored by the Daryl Kuhnhenn Memorial Ride, is set to dazzle tonight from 6-9 p.m at the Rugby High School. “It started out as a father-daughter dance,” said Mandy Kuhnhenn, one of the organizers of the Knights and Princesses Dance. ...
Maintaining Rugby’s flowers is a community effort involving many but one resident has gone a cut above the rest in his dedication to making Rugby bloom. “It makes the city look so much nicer when you can have color downtown like that,” said Steve Dockter, the primary caretaker ...
Sen. John Hoeven, R-ND, and other dignitaries visited Rugby to celebrate the grand opening of the new Heart of America Medical Center on Tuesday, Aug. 27. Amid wind and sunshine, visitors from out of state joined those from down the street to celebrate with a ribbon cutting, some remarks and ...
Heart of America Medical Center will celebrate its grand opening Tuesday, Aug. 27, with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Construction of the 77,000-square-foot critical access hospital broke ground in mid-2022, with JLG Architects and contractor JE Dunn. JLG’s architectural planning was led by ...
Harper Seykora, sixth grader at Ely Elementary, earned the title of national champion earlier this month at the God, Flag & Country oratorical competition. She pulled on the heartstrings of judges and audience members alike with her touching speech about her mother’s terminal stage four ...
A Rugby veteran who died at the age of 51 was among more than 650 Vietnam veterans honored June 15 at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s (VVMF) In Memory ceremony in Washington, D.C. Roger Christ Schell died from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma due to exposure to agent orange during his ...
