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Otto Sovig, 89, of Watford City, ND, formerly of Williston, ND passed away peacefully December 14, 2022 with family by his side. Otto was born February 13th, 1933 on the family farm near Arnegard, ND where he was raised. The youngest of ten children, he made his mark with his winsome mischievous smile and curious nature that captured everyone’s heart. He attended school in Arnegard and openly admitted his emphasis was on playing basketball and baseball. He met the love of his life in his f...
Fall of 2022 Sidney Circle Subdivision was finally given some long-needed improvements. The Sidney Subdivision was started in 1978. More people started moving in during the oil boom in 1979 and 1980. In the late 1980s they reached saturation. They put a municipal system in but by 2018 it was reaching capacity. According to Interstate Engineering's website, www.interstateeng.com, "the original drain fields, wells, and adjunct water and sewer mains installed during the subdivisions' inception...
The Inn at Hunters Run in Watford City held a grand opening and ribbon cutting on July 20 to celebrate its newly renovated space. The hotel upgraded its internet services and renovated public spaces, making them more functional for their guests. The renovations took place in Feb. 2021 and wrapped around the end of Feb. 2022. "We needed to upgrade to bring the hotel up to optimal functionality. Reopening the hotel was a vision to bring additional rooms back into Watford City in preparation for...
This year marks 10 years of successful business for Watford City's Outsiders Bar & Grill. In 2012, Watford City natives Cary and Darlene Garmann opened the restaurant in hopes of it serving as a welcoming place for everyone to enjoy a meal. Ten years later, it still serves that same purpose. "During Watford City's oil boom, Outsider's Bar & Grill was excited to meet all the new people coming into our town. Now that things are winding down, we have become a place for locals and visitors to...
On Saturday, July 16, community members gathered to see and use the Watford City Municipal Airport's new extended runway. The event celebrated the two-year project with a ribbon cutting, free airplane rides, BBQ, and aircrafts. The new extended runway measures 6,550-feet long by 75-feet wide and allows the airport the ability to welcome bigger airplanes to the area. The old runway, measuring 4,400-feet long by 60 feet wide, has long awaited renovations. The area has been wanting to extend the...
Randy Ray Klasna, Lake Havasu City, AZ formerly of Fairview, MT, passed away Saturday, June 25, 2022, at his home with his family at his side following a long battle with cancer. Randy was born Sept. 7, 1968, Sidney, MT to Ernest and Carol Klasna. He attended grade school in Sidney, then graduated from high school in Lewistown, MT after the family moved there in 1982. Randy was born to be a truck driver and he spent the majority of his life driving down the road in a semi, where he always said h...
The Richland County Farm Bureau held a candidate forum on at the Sidney Elks Lodge May 26. The following candidates were in attendance for sheriff; John Dynneson and Shane Kyhl; both candidates for county commissioner, Shane Gorder and Brian Holst; county attorney candidates, Charity McLarty and Layne Johnson; county treasurer Candidate Amy Metz, Clerk and Recorder Candidate Stephanie Verhasselt, County superintendent of schools candidate Tim Tharp, and District 35 State Representative Brandon...
As home prices continue to climb to record highs in Missoula, community nonprofits are turning modular homes that were once intended for workers in the Bakken oil fields into permanently affordable housing for two lifelong area residents. Homeword and Habitat for Humanity of Missoula are working together to help two East Missoulians attain homeownership using money from Missoula's new Affordable Housing Trust Fund and a long-term lease that ensures permanent affordability. The modular homes...
Over 40 citizens of Richland County crowded into the Sidney Elks Lodge for the 4th Candidate Roundtable on April 21. Nine candidates running for public office in the Richland County primary election went from table to table, speed dating the people in a way. Stephanie Verhasselt and Amy Metz both came and figured since their offices were close they would make the rounds together. Verhasselt is running for reelection as Richland County Clerk and Recorder and Metz is running for her first term as...
With the local federal primary elections just eight weeks away, the Sidney Young Professionals are offering a fantastic chance for the community to learn more about the candidates they will have a chance to vote for. They all will have the chance to answer the public's questions face to face. Thursday, April 21 from 6-8 p.m. at Sidney Elk's Lodge, the Sidney Young Professionals are offering their 4th Annual Candidate Roundtable. As always, this event is free and open to people of all ages....
The civil judgment, the second-highest ever awarded in Montana, highlights volatility and growing pains in the CBD market. Hemp, a crop that largely flew under the radar in Montana when it was planted under a pilot program three years ago, is now central to one of the largest civil awards in the state's history. A jury in Wolf Point last month awarded 25 eastern Montana farmers $65 million in compensatory and punitive damages, finding that a handful of Canadian and American businessmen had...
Fred Barkley When Fred Barkley and his family arrived in Sidney in 1976, they thought I had found Eden. The town was so clean, with well manicured lawns and parks and the people were so friendly and kind." Barkley said. As the new 4-H agent, Barkley found that the program was well grounded with a strong nucleus of dedicated volunteer leaders. In his 28 years as 4-H Extension Agent Barkley saw a lot of changes and growth in the 4-H program. The first Fair he took part in had no market livestock...
Sidney, Montana's Young Professionals chapter put on a conference to showcase their town. Here's what we learned from showing up. Editor's note: As part of MTFP's Long Streets Project, reporter Eric Dietrich spent a few days in early June on the road in eastern Montana. This is his dispatch. It's a Thursday afternoon in Sidney, the 6,400-resident city on the plains along Montana's border with North Dakota. I'm sheltering from a passing tornado inside a boutique cookware shop, staring at a wall...
Bismarck - North Dakota humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson was featured on CBS Sunday Morning on May 30 in a feature on the search for the geographic center of North America. CBS producer Stephen Dustin asked Jenkinson to appear for an interview after learning of Jenkinson's forthcoming book on North Dakota, 'The Language of Cottonwoods: Essays on the Future of North Dakota'. Jenkinson provided wry commentary on the controversy over the geographic center of North Dakota that now includes three...
Since 2014, Sidney has had a community garden that provides a space for individuals to grow fresh produce, learn more about gardening, and to participate in outdoor activities. The idea for the community garden came from a public input meeting that was organized by the Richland County Communities in Action group. People of Richland County were concerned about the little access to fresh produce by citizens, so they felt that implementing a community garden would help address those needs. "At the...
Recently elected US House Reprehensive Matt Rosendale visited the Sidney area last week. Rosendale was in town from Feb. 15-17 and visited with area Republicans, toured local businesses and held a Q & A session at the Richland County Commissioners office. Rosendale's Q & A session was with community leaders and local citizens. He began the meeting with an overview of his first 45 days since taking office. Rosendale described the stark differences between the atmosphere in Washington compared to...
Frontier Tires & Glass, Sidney, is now open for business. The new owners are Bryce Dinkelman, Brandon Batty and Joseph Knapp. The shop is located south of Sidney on HWY 16, 2650 South Central Ave. Their hours of business are Monday-Friday, 7 am-6 pm, Saturday from 7 am-2 pm. The three men began life each individually in the rural communities of America. They were raised on the principles that all men and women were endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights including the God given...
Funeral services for Donald "Don" Stambaugh, 82, Sidney, MT were held at 10 a.m., Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, Richland County Event Center at the Fairgrounds with Pastor Sione Fungalei, Lonsdale Methodist Church officiating. Interment was in Sidney Cemetery, Sidney, MT under the care of the Fulkerson-Stevenson Funeral Home, Sidney, MT. Visitation was from noon-6 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13 at the funeral home and one hour before service at the Event Center. Remembrances, condolences and pictures may be...
Families, individuals, and businesses are invited to help with the annual upkeep of the Maah Daah Hey Trail during July. The nearly month-long event is the second annual Big Push, though the event was only officially named last summer, according to Lindsey Ybarra, who co-founded Save the Maah Daah Hey with her husband Nick. The event gathers volunteers to upkeep all 100 miles of the Trail. That's 200 miles of mowing, weed whacking, trimming and hand shoveling, work entirely completed by...
My Country No More! • Friday, March 1, 7 p.m. Set in Trenton, North Dakota during the rise and fall of the new American oil boom, My Country No More paints an intimate portrait of a rural American community in crisis, forced to confront the meaning of progress as they fight for a disappearing way of life. The film focuses on plans by oil companies to construct an oil processing plant in the area and follows one family’s opposition to the development, as well as workers and community members in favor of it. My Country No More won Best Fea...
The American Petroleum Institution (API) is a national trade association that represents the oil and gas industry, with local chapters in oilfield regions throughout the United States. The organization includes more than 600 companies in an industry that employs more than 10.3 million people nationwide. As the end of 2018 draws nigh, The Roundup reached out to office holders with the MonDak chapter of API and asked for their insights on the petroleum industry in our current local economy. Terry...
The Roundup spoke to Marcia Hellandsaas, the McKenzie County Extension Agent, about how the local area celebrates the Christmas Season in their own unique way. Hellandsaas explained that McKenzie County residents typically celebrate the holiday with family, food and generosity-filled traditions. Hellandsaas explained, "We're a very generous community that remembers the people who struggle. We do have a pretty large population that struggles in the oil boom. In the Bakken, we always have people...
More than a hundred people gathered at the Rough Rider Center on Monday, October 22, to hear candidates for State Senate and State House of Representatives, McKenzie County Commissioner, and McKenzie County Sheriff. The Watford City event lasted two hours, as each candidate answered a series of questions designed to flesh out their thoughts and opinions about the issues. Beginning with introductory words from Titus Stenberg, who is the sportscaster for Watford City Wolves athletics, the event wa...
McKenzie County has two options on the November ballot for County Recorder. Katie Paulson and Dori Sparby are both competing for the office, and The Roundup was able to speak with both candidates about their bid for McKenzie County Recorder. The Recorder's Office is capable of keeping all permanent land records in the county and indexing them so they can be researched by others. It also is responsible for recording marriage licenses, and it also keeps the discharge papers of those who've served...
Last Thursday, Public Works Director Jeff Hintz and Mayor Rick Norby took a few curious Sidney residents two miles east of town to view the sewage treatment lagoons. A few years ago the DEQ or Department of Environmental Quality visited Sidney and informed officials that Sidney needed to get its sewage system in compliance with federal regulations. At the time, the oil boom was in full swing and the population was well over the 6,000 persons it is today and was expected to grow even more. The...