Objectionable odor reaches Bismarck

By MICHELLE MCLEAN

Neighbors in Eldorado Township raised a stink Monday night about what they call a “smelly experiment” by American Crystal Sugar Co. and local sugarbeet farmers.

More than a dozen rural residents turned out in force at a public hearing in Hillsboro to protest a solid waste land treatment permit application submitted to the N.D. state health department by American Crystal Sugar. 

Good investment

Vets Club directors this week disbursed more than $1,900 in the Hillsboro community.

Recipients from the most recent disbursement by the Hillsboro Vets Club are Hillsboro school-age wrestlers, the school’s football field, a marketing plan designed to promote Hillsboro, the city’s park board and nine students planning to study and travel in Spain and France this summer.

The money given locally is revenue generated by the club’s gaming operation. 

HBA endorses campaign promoting Hillsboro

Hillsboro Business Association members meeting this week endorsed the latest campaign to promote Hillsboro.

With the final details being worked out, the campaign titled “Hillsboro Hospitality” includes a new website, new I-29 billboard, printed materials and a direct mailing scheme, tradeshow exposure and a special event this spring that promises to bring potential homebuyers to Hillsboro. 

Tourney’s No. 1 seed survives upset bid by Burros

    

After playing a near flawless first half, the Hillsboro Burros saw their upset bid evaporate Tuesday in the time it takes to play an ill-fated two quarters of basketball.

Snake-bit from the start of the third quarter, the Burros, after leading 21-14 at the half and having Dakota Prairie on the run, couldn’t score, rebound or execute in the final 16 minutes of Tuesday’s title game in the District 2 girls basketball tournament played at Mayville State University. 

Season winding down for Burros

Hillsboro scared Dakota Prairie and beat Hatton-Northwood in high school boys basketball last week.

The Burros, who played at Larimore last night, host Norman County West Monday night in the last game on the regular season schedule.

The District 3 boys basketball tournament opens Monday, Feb. 18 at Mayville. 

Burros 2nd, taking 10 to state meet

With a 2nd place team finish in the Region 2 meet Saturday at Walhalla, Hillsboro qualified 10 wrestlers for the state individual tournament.

Action started yesterday (Thursday) in Bismarck where the Burros were also entered in the team dual meet.

Their goals — a top 5 team finish in the individual contest, a “fun, competitive” showing in the dual contest and “more than one” state champion. 

Shutter bug.

Writer, editor, ad designer, photographer.

It’s not the first title on my name plate but it’s the one that gets me closest to the action.

As a sports photographer, I’ve come to see competition through a long lens. 

A fellow in New York City is on to something.

He’s making people stop, look, wonder, smile and laugh.

Not easy today.

But, it might be easier in New York, than North Dakota.

Called by some as the Merry Prankster, the man behind the camera has his troop of everyday people staging the weirdest events all around the Big Apple.

They might be playing bingo on the subway, riding the subway without pants on or he’ll have them frozen (standing rock-solid still) in NYC’s Grand Central Station. 

Don’t wait on the rebate check

Word on the street is that the federal government is going to rush us a big tax rebate so we can spend it quickly to save many bottom lines and, probably, many bottoms. But the check may not be in the mail very soon since the Senate has decided to add its fingerprints to the House bill. That being the situation, the rebate is in my estate plan.

Until the President, the Senate and the House agree, it would be advisable for everyone short of cash to get a job “for the duration.” That’s an old World War II expression for “you will never know when.” Some folks say that unemployment is rising but there seems to be quite a few jobs in the newspapers – something for every skill or lack thereof. I’ve been looking. 

Over the Years – February 15, 2008

60 YEARS AGO

January 30, 1948 — Hillsboro Civic and Commerce’s liquor store netted $6,392 in profit in 1947. The store had $72,849 in sales. Salaries cost $1,762. License fees ran $2,077 and rent cost $600. Federal and state taxes amounted to $2,220. The group also donated $2,000 to the Community Hospital.

Eight nights of sub-zero temperatures came to an end when the mercury finally stopped its nightly drop at zero. The lowest of the recorded lows was 39 below.