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From April through the end of July 2023, Sidney residents should expect construction on Lincoln Ave. and a few other streets to do some much-needed upgrades. On Wednesday, April 5, workmen along with their construction equipment began to tear up Lincoln Ave., one of the main thoroughfares in Sidney. The City of Sidney contracted COP Construction and Interstate Engineering to do the work. Besides tearing up the road and kicking up dust, the workers are replacing and laying down water pipes and ma...
Allcheck Medical Clinic in conjunction with Billings Clinic Laboratory Services will be holding their first health fair of 2023, on Wednesday, June 14, 6 a.m.-1 p.m. Their previous health fair was in December 2022. Allcheck Medical Clinic tries to do two health fairs a year, with one in the spring and the other in the fall. The first one was held in January 2022, and it was very well attended. As before, participants come to Allcheck Medical Clinic on the day of the event and register with Billings Clinic Laboratory Services staff at the front...
After a 1½ years of extensive repairs, the building that once housed ALCO and Sidney's North Shopko will soon house an Ace Hardware store. In 2015, Skip King, an owner of seven different Ace Hardware stores in the state of Montana, set his eyes on Sidney as a place for another store. He has four stores in Billings, one in Columbus, Laurel, and Lockwood. He has owned Ace Hardware stores for 37 years and they are part of a second-generation family business. According to King, he wanted to b...
The Montana Magicians, the Richland Rangers peewee team won the Big Sky State Games held March 24-26 on the Richland Ranger's home ice in Sidney. The State Games are a 3 on 3 team tournament. Each game has 25 minutes of run-time with cross-ice because during if two games were played at the same time. The teams were smaller in number than the usual games and the kids set up the members of the team to play. It was their job to figure out who would be best to play. They were allowed seven skaters...
The Sidney Police Department has been serving the City of Sidney since 1915. 108 years later the officers are still protecting the lives and property of the city's citizens. According to Chief Mark Kraft, "The fundamental duty of all law enforcement in the state is keeping the peace." This gives them many tasks. Besides the usual traffic control, keeping the peace, and apprehension of criminals, Sidney's officers also do welfare checks and patrols near the schools, businesses, and housing areas...
The staff members of the Sidney Health Center Rehab are all settled in and ready to serve the patients that come to them for rehabilitation services and cardiac rehabilitation. Sidney Health Center's Rehabilitation Services currently offer physical, occupational, speech, cardiac, and pulmonary services. The well-trained staff treats patients with various musculoskeletal, neurological, metabolic, systemic, genetic, integumentary, and general medical problems throughout the lifespan from newborns...
Being a small town in eastern Montana, Fairview does not need a large police department but the few officers have worked just as hard as the ones in other departments to protect their town. According to https://resources.workable.com, a police officer "is responsible for law enforcement and public safety. They provide emergency services by responding to calls and investigating crimes." This gives Fairview officers many tasks. Besides the usual fighting crimes, Fairview's officers also do...
In 1964, 25-year-old Wyoming native Larry Garman rolled into Sidney with his wife, Rita, and their young family. Larry was born in the country and grew up outside Casper, WY. He met Rita when he was a kid and they grew up together. They had married and moved to Denver, CO to start their family but the company Larry worked for, F.W. Woolworth, needed him to relocate to manage their store in Sidney. Being in the mountains, Denver can be cold and the Wyoming winds can make Casper's winters brutal,...
MonTECH is a statewide assistive technology program that provides technology, support, and services that improve the quality of life for Montanans with any physical or cognitive challenges, including those associated with aging. They will be holding two events Wednesday, April 19, at the Fairview Senior Center, 217 5th St. W. Liz Kuehn, MonTECH Eastern Clinic coordinator, will be there at 12:30 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. According to their website, www.mt-at.org, MonTECH provides free, confidential information about assistive technology (AT)...
Two individuals were shot, late Wednesday night, March 22, in an apartment on the 700 block of N. Main St., Watford City. Watford City Police were dispatched to the location at around 11:42 p.m. for a report of two people who had received gunshot wounds. Officers arrived on the scene and administered medical aid. Both were transported to the McKenzie County Hospital for medical treatment. One patient, a male, had minor injuries. The other patient, a female, had more serious injuries and was taken to a different facility where she died from her...
After eight years of planning, the Fairview-West project is set to break ground this week. According to the Montana Department of Transportation's website, www.mdt.mt.gov, the Fairview West project is a locally driven effort to reduce crashes by improving a segment of Highway 201 (MT 201) west of Fairview. The project will cost just over $34 million. It will reconstruct six miles of roadway, including two miles of new alignment north of the Fairview Airport, to improve safety while alleviating...
Samantha Berry, Savage Sunrise Manor former administrator, who is being charged with embezzling over $30K from the business, was scheduled for an omnibus hearing Monday, March 13 to update details about the case. Berry’s first day in court was Monday, Jan. 30. She had plead not guilty but did not have representation at the time. She did acquire Shannon Sweeney, a licensed attorney in Montana and Arizona, as representation and they were able to provide the information required before the hearing date and it was canceled. Berry is keeping her p...
The Rough Rider Rec Show will be Friday, March 31-Sunday, April 2, at the Rough Rider Center field house and arena, Watford City. The Rough Rider Center holds the Rec Show every year to provide a space for businesses to promote themselves, sell their product, to promote tourism, active lifestyles, and exploration of western North Dakota to all. Vendors will have boats, campers, side-by-sides, ATVs, fishing gear, and information brochures to display, hand out, and sell. Many local businesses...
For the second year in a row, the District 2C Pepsi All-Star Basketball Game will be hosted, Tuesday, April 4, at Lambert School in their new gym. In 2022, after watching the NBA All-Star game, the members of the Lambert student council sat around discussing ideas for the coming months. A district-wide All-Star basketball game was brought up by Grady Gonsioroski. The students started planning and looking for sponsors. Blue Rock Pepsi decided to lend a hand and the Pepsi All-Star Basketball game was born. The game is mostly student-driven and...
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...
For the first time, Alexander's Public S,chool seniors will bring donkey basketball to Alexander, Tuesday, April 4 at 6 p.m., at Alexander Public School gymnasium. The donkey basketball game will be an way for Alexander Public School seniors to raise funds for their senior trip. A free-will supper starts at 6 p.m. in the school cafeteria. The senior class will be serving a slushburger dinner. The game starts at 7 p.m. in the gymnasium. It consists of four teams of 8-12 people. There will be a...
Since 2021, a business little known outside of MacGrady Construction sits hidden away on the south end of 10th Ave. SE, Sidney. B Home & Design is the darling of Heidy MacGrady. Heidy is the wife of Curtis, the owner of MacGrady Construction. In November 2021, she sold her share in Mimi's Kitchen, a small retail company in Sidney specializing in kitchen goods, and started B Home & Design. She designs house plans and renders them with a program that will put her ideas into 3D. This is very...
The people of eastern Montana and western North Dakota are used to working through the results of harsh weather on the northern plains. McKenzie Electric Coop, Watford City, is trying to make it easier with its app and new outage map. McKenzie Electric Coop has been providing the people of North Dakota with power since 1945. They currently have members in five different North Dakota counties and two different counties in Montana, 4,486 miles of lines, and 4,657 total members. To offer another...
Marvellous Okonne, an Operation Christmas Child Full Circle speaker, is coming to Sidney to share how receiving an Operation Christmas Child box changed his life and continues to remind him of God's love and care for him on Saturday, March 18 at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. According to flyers about the event, Okonne is the youngest of four children. He grew up in a part of Central Africa where Christians are persecuted for their beliefs and his family had to resettle in another area...
6 brought with it the return of a longstanding Williston business. A property company that has bought different hotels in Williston and Watford City bought the Grand Williston Hotel and Conference Center and has renovated it to the point that it would not be recognized upon entering. The Grand Williston Hotel was first opened in the 1980s. It was a major part of the scenery for many years until 2020 rolled around. Like many other businesses across the country, the hotel had to close down....
The Sidney Gymnastics Club is holding its Fourth Annual Designer Purse Bingo at the Sidney Elks Lodge on Friday, March 10. Sidney Gymnastics' Annual Designer Purse Bingo is an annual fundraiser that was dreamed up by the board comprised of parents of the gymnasts in 2020 to aid with expenses like electricity, heating, and insurance for their building as well as travel expenses for the team and wages for the coaches. The event will be for adults 21 and older. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and...
The McKenzie County Planning and Zoning Commission and SRF Consulting will be reviewing the McKenzie County zoning ordinances as part of the Zoning Ordinance Review Project this year during the regular zoning and planning meetings every second Monday at 5 p.m. Zoning ordinances are fairly new to McKenzie County. The county was not officially zoned until 2013. McKenzie County has added some amendments to the ordinance since then, however, nothing has been done to this extent since 2013. All the districts will be reviewed this year on four...
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...
This year, for the first time, both the boys’ and girls’ NDAHA State Hockey Tournaments will be held in Watford City the same year. The tournaments start March 2 at noon and go through March 5 at the Rough Rider Center. Watford City has been the host of NDAHA hockey tournaments before, but always just for the boys or the girls. The NDAHA state planning committees and clubs plan which town will host the tournaments at the beginning of the year. Initially, Grand Forks was to host the tournaments, but due to other NDAHA tournaments and UND Hoc...
To celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Cancer Care Expansion, the Sidney Health Center Cancer Center had a few cancer patients, survivors, physicians, staff, and people from the community including SHC and Foundation board members come and sign their names on beams that were painted with the color "Brave Purple" recognizing all cancers that are treated within the walls of our Cancer Center, on Wednesday, Feb. 22. The beams would later become part of the Cancer Care Expansion. According to do...
