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Member of drag racing family wins at world event

Hadley Yoder is fast moving, quick thinking and buckles up with one foot on the gas pedal. At the age of 13, Hadley has three years of driving experience under her belt with her own race car. Her elapsed time for the 1/8th was 8.13 seconds going 79 mph at the Magic City International Dragway ...

Project Joy: Little Flower class helps bring joy to others

Project Joy is a longtime program in the community in which Christmas trees are displayed at businesses with wish list tags. The fulfilled wishes go to community residents in need. The fourth-grade class taught by Maria Rice at Little Flower School in Rugby participated in this year’s ...

Family makes special recipe with love

Family members of the late Theodore “Ted” Mitzel came together at the Living Center Heart of America Medical Center in Rugby to celebrate Mitzel and make his “Kuchen Bar” recipe for the center’s residents and staff Monday, Dec. 15. Mitzel’s sisters, Betty Summers and Dorothy ...

Chalmers addition at crossroads

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 ...

Donation from area couple gives fire department new truck

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, ...

Centenarian using computers for many years

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 ...

Former Army nurse recalls time spent in military service

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 ...

Developer pulls out of row home project

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 ...

Swine farm fails to get planning board support

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’ cheerful dilemma: Rugby sisters cheer for rivalry teams

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 ...