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A water service main deep within the Richland County Fairgrounds compound gave in to the extreme cold and ruptured on Monday, Jan. 15.The torrent went undiscovered until the following day. It was a federal holiday so there was no one in the fairgrounds office to notice the drop in water pressure or water gathering on the midway. The fairgrounds were not completely deserted. Staff were in the event center, one of the buildings located on the south side of the property, cleaning up after an event...
Fourteen members of the Sidney High School speech, drama, and debate team traveled to Columbia Falls MT Jan. 26-27 to compete in the state meet, a MHSA sanctioned competition, at Columbia Falls High School. They did very well, taking fourth as a team, but a few members excelled beyond the success of their team. Cedar Hovde, a junior, competed and won 1st in humorous solo against 18 other orators. She will be going to the Regionals in Billings on Feb. 8-9. There she will be doing a humorous oral...
The Bakken Area Skills Center, a facility built to increase the availability of career and technical education and training for high school students and incumbent workers throughout the Bakken region, was completed in 2023 and began holding classes on Jan. 15. The Bakken Area Skills Center is owned and primarily operated by McKenzie County School District #1. According to the Watford City School district website, www.watford-city.k12.nd.us, that vision was to provide in-demand training...
Sunrise Pregnancy Resources and Family, Sidney, will be holding their first ever Puzzle Palooza Event at Limitless Church, 414 E. Main St. (formally Assembly of God Church), Feb. 17, at 10 a.m. The event is a fundraiser for Sunrise Clinic as well as a medical benefit for Anakin Milligan, a one-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with Menkes disease. The Puzzle Palooza Event will be held in the Fireside Room at Limitless Church. Each team will be given identical 1,000-piece puzzles to put togethe...
The third week of January 2024 was a little scary for parents, school staff, and students of eastern Montana and western North Dakota. Threats were emailed and called into many different schools on more than one day, but they all seemed to be pranks, but law enforcement still responded. According to a post on their Facebook page, at about 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 17, Savage School, along with several other school districts across Montana, received an email stating that bombs had been placed in school locations throughout the state. The...
February 2024 marks Sidney Tendokan Taekwondo’s 40th Anniversary. Back in 1984, some instructors came from Williston to Sidney to teach the martial arts and the school has been here ever since. Over its 40 years of existence, Sidney Tendokan Taekwondo has been blessed to have various attentive instructors. Paul Speck and Patsy Harlan were the first two. They came to bring the martial art to eastern Montana. Mike Berg, Sidney Tendokan Taekwondo’s current owner, joined the school in 1984. He had started to learn Taekwondo in 1977 under Moo Yun...
Ric Holden, 2024 congressional candidate, visited Sidney, Monday, Jan 15, to speak with area leaders and news outlets. He was eager to engage in friendly conversation to discover the issues area voters have with events that have happened around the nation. Holden is no stranger to service. The Glendive rancher and insurance adjuster served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps for 2 1/2 years, the Montana Senate, representing eastern Montana, for eight years, and in several...
Through the months of February and March, thanks to the generosity of Northern Lights Honey, North Dakota Mills, and LaSaffre Corporation, and the producer of Red Star Platinum Yeast, the 41st Annual Wheat Show Bread Fair committee will be going into middle schools across the MonDak region to enter 5th graders who want to learn to make bread from scratch. Until 2020, the Annual Bread Fair was part of the National Hard Spring Wheat Show. Since then the National Hard Spring Wheat Show Board continues to be integral in the decision making process...
After six months in their new Sidney location on Central Avenue, Awakened Wellness is still going strong. Tanya Candee, owner, has kept all the services she had, added a few items, and is considering expanding the business. Awakened Wellness still offers, ionic foot bath, red light, and PEMF sessions, bio energetic testing, functional testing, and IV IM vitamin therapy as well as several different medical grade supplements, raw herbs, and homeopathic remedies and products. Awakened Wellness...
Valerie Valentino had an idea to start a cold-pressed juice business in 2023, which quickly exploded into the healthy and delicious addition to Williston in eight months. Valentino came to Williston from Minot with her husband just before 2020. Valentino loved helping people with their health and wanted to do something that supported her passion. With her home kitchen and a $5,000 credit card, Valentino decided to cold-press some fresh and healthy juices and try to sell them. She expected to...
Through the months of February and March, thanks to the generosity of Northern Lights Honey, North Dakota Mills, and LaSaffre Corporation, and the producer of Red Star Platinum Yeast, the 41st Annual Wheat Show Bread Fair committee will be going into middle schools across the MonDak region to enter 5th graders who want to learn to make bread from scratch. Until 2020, the Annual Bread Fair was part of the National Hard Spring Wheat Show. Since then the National Hard Spring Wheat Show Board contin...
The Fairview Police Department was able to purchase two radios with the help of the Mason Moore Grant on Dec. 11. Because of the grant they were able to replace 22-year-old equipment The Fairview Police Department is a rather small department with only two officers, but the town they service is quite small as well, with a population of 898 at the last census in 2020 over .8 sq. miles. At times they have had to call the Richland County Sheriff Department or law enforcement from nearby towns....
The Badlands Fraternal Order of Police will be holding a spaghetti feed and silent auction at the Carl E. Rogan Post 29, Saturday, Jan. 20, from noon-3 p.m. to help the daughter of one of their own receive lifesaving healthcare. Katherine Beebe is only six years old and is the daughter of one of the members of the FOP as well as a deputy sheriff with the McKenzie County Sheriff’s Office. In November 2023, her parents noticed that there was something wrong. They got her to a doctor and found she has a rare heart condition that is, of yet, u...
7 was a potentially profitable year for McKenzie County, North Dakota. Several things happened that might serve to benefit the county’s economy over the following years. February KUMV The North Dakota Department of Transportation has approved a contract to begin construction work to expand Highway 85. They started work to create a four-lane highway between Watford City and the Long X Bridge in March according to a Roundup article and, “The expansion of the highway will safely accommodate more industrial, agricultural, and passenger tra...
In late August/early September the owners of Elite Cabinets and Building Supply in Killdeer were able to fulfill a longtime request of their loyal customers. They opened Elite Cabinets and Building Supply in Watford City. Josh and Becki Andersen had been supplying the people of Killdeer and the surrounding region with high quality building materials since 2018. They also do construction and were often frustrated with the fact that there was no lumberyard in Watford City and the Andersens were...
The Watford City Oiler’s Girls 12 & Under team won the North Dakota state hockey tournament March 9-11 in Devils Lake. The 13 Watford City girls that make up the team have been playing hockey at their best since Nov. 11, 2022. Months of travel, playing on the weekends, and after school from the Rough Rider Center to rinks as far as Devils Lake came to a culmination in February. They did not have to win any certain number of games as every team in the league qualifies for the state championships. They did, however, go on an 11-game winning s...
The building that was formerly Rod Iron Bar & Grill is now the home of Saloon 27 Casino, Steak, and Seafood, Sidney. Shadd and Amanda Cullinan, long time owners of the Ranger Lounge and Casino in Sidney had just recently started another Ranger Bar and Casino in Glendive. They had had their eyes on the Rod Iron for a while. After some careful consideration, the couple approached the owners of the Rod Iron. "It is a beautiful building and an asset to Sidney." Shadd said. They kept the rustic...
In the early morning of Friday, Dec. 22, two individuals were seen outside a business in Sidney attempting to steal some copper wire. They pulled up behind the business in a white four-door car. The wire they attempted to take was heavy gauge, and the potential thieves were unsuccessful in cutting any away. They did, however, cause significant damage to the wire and, as a result, could be facing charges of attempted theft and criminal mischief. Police Chief Mark Kraft said, "The Sidney Police...
Sunday, Dec. 24, at 4:11 a.m., a company-owned work truck was reported stolen from the Holiday gas station on 8th Ave., Watford City. It has since been recovered. Before the vehicle was stolen, just before 4:10 a.m., the suspect's image and face were captured by cameras taking images both inside and outside the building. The Watford City Police Department released the image of the suspect on Facebook, requesting information from the community, and the truck was recovered at 4:53 a.m., less than...
With the holidays getting closer, the Sidney Chamber of Commerce decided to hold a Holiday Gala Saturday, Nov. 25, in an effort to up the festivities around town for the holidays. Dueling Pianos, Denver, CO, played on the street-level floor of the Sidney Yellowstone Mercantile Saturday, Nov. 25. Serena Kringen, the owner of the building and Yellowstone Perc, had a vision for this event in her new venue space. It turned out so elegant that the chamber was motivated to make it happen sooner than later. Besides the show and drinks, there was a...
At the end of 2023, the construction that was scheduled in Sidney to go from April through the end of July 2023 is still not done. According to Jeffrey Hintz, public works director, City of Sidney, the water mains are done but there is street work yet to be completed and more projects still needing to be done. Lincoln Avenue will need to be overlaid from 4th St. S. to Central Avenue as well as 6th St. SW from Lincoln Avenue to Central Avenue. Work on the water tower has already started with a...
On Wednesday, Aug. 30, a brand-new mural was completed on the north exterior wall of Pizza House, Sidney. Local artist, Sam Rush, Multiple Impressions, began painting the mural Monday, Aug. 21. She was assigned the mural back in July. Rush often offers painting classes in Williston and is known for painting windows for businesses. This was the third new mural that Sidney's Tourism and Business Improvement District commissioned in town. The TBID is a part of the Sidney Chamber and supports...
Sidney’s own Ace Hardware opened on May 22. It was a soft opening, but means the store was open in time for the start of the growing season. Manager Reece Gairrett, Owner Skip King, and all of the local Ace Hardware employees worked hard through the month of May to get everything ready for opening day. Gairrett said, “We are very close to fully staffed, close enough to open the doors.” The store is not yet fully stocked either. There are a few shelves that are still waiting for vendors’ deliveries and they are not going to have a Garden...
The Taphouse Bar & Grill, located behind the Lone Tree Motor Inn, 900 S. Central Ave., Sidney, had an open house.Saturday, June 17. On Feb. 1, Ron Sorenson, his wife Sherry, their son Brent, and his wife Heather, Sidney, joined together and bought the Taphouse Bar & Grill. The family-owned business had a crawfish and shrimp boil with corn on the cob, boiled potatoes, and assorted salads. There will also burgers and brats for those not up for shellfish. Along with the limited menu, the Taphouse had all their regular drinks. The crawfish, shrimp,...
McDonald’s fans in Sidney got a scare in 2022. The longstanding business closed its doors for renovations and when the projected reopening date came around the restaurant remained closed. They did reopen and held an open house to celebrate on March 1, 2023. On Aug. 22, 2022, Emmanuel Leon closed his Sidney McDonald’s location for much-needed renovations. He has been the franchise owner of five McDonald’s locations including Sidney’s since 2021, but the Sidney location was the only one that needed to be modernized. His Sidney staff were offered...
