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Area educators named top school principals

Dan Kaffar, Central Middle School in Devils Lake, has been named 2025 N.D. Middle Level Principal, according to news releases and Jenell Bear, principal of Edwin Loe Elementary School in New Town, has been named the 2025 North Dakota National Distinguished Principal. The North Dakota ...

HAMC receives grant for ultrasound equipment

The Heart of America Medical Center has been awarded $468,841 for ultrasound equipment from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, the trust announced this week. The grant will fund point of care and diagnostic ultrasound equipment for the hospital as well as point of care ...

Train station is reminder of past

Puzzles, books and waiting-room style children’s model trains sit inside the train station at Rugby, waiting to be used by passengers of trains connecting Rugby with Chicago, Portland and Seattle. Built by the Great Northern Railway in 1907, the Rugby Station, part of what made Rugby grow ...

Northeast District Court

Jan. 28 Christopher John Heilman, 41, Rugby, possession of a controlled substance (Class A misdemeanor), 360 days in the Heart of America Correctional and Treatment Center, 261 days suspended, credit for 99 days served, two years of supervised probation, no contact with victims, concurrent ...

ND students learn about Holocaust in exhibit

Almost 500 students from across North Dakota have visited the Heart of America Library in Rugby this month to see an exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum called “Americans and the Holocaust.” Much of the focus is on what the media was showing the American people ...

Northeast District Court Jan. 21

Jan. 21 Crystal Velvet Grove, 40, Rugby, DUI-.08% or greater-intoxicating liquor-third offense in seven years (Class A misdemeanor), 360 days in the Heart of Correctional and Treatment Center, first serve 90 days, two years of supervised probation, 24/7 sobriety program, $2,325 in court fines ...

Rugby soldier helped liberate Nazi camp

Quentin Jelsing of Rugby had just turned 18 when he decided to enlist to fight in World War II. His son, Terry Jelsing, said “right after graduation, the war was on.” Terry Jelsing is speaking at the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibit in the Rugby Public Library, telling his ...

Pierce County 4-H members win national competition

Individuals from the Pierce County 4-H Hippology senior team took first, second and third places in the individual competition at the Western National Roundup in Denver Jan 9-10. In the team portion, they placed seventh of 13. Each person on the team went station to station, answering a ...

Northeast Central District Court Jan. 7

Pierce County Jan. 7 Aaliyah Cante Howlingwolf, 25, Garrison, failure to appear as witness or to produce information (Class A misdemeanor), 60 days at the Heart of America Correctional and Treatment Center, first serve 18 days, credit for 18 days served, 360 days of unsupervised probation, ...