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It was soooo nice this week that at times kids could not only move water where ice was standing a week ago, but they could do it with their jackets unzipped.

It was that nice as seasonal temperatures returned to Hillsboro and the Red River Valley this week. The good news weather gave Hillsboro daytime highs Wednesday and Thursday of around 40 degrees.

Temps are expected to moderate slightly this weekend.

Meanwhile, the backyard snow levels are slowly dropping, which by all measuring sticks is more good news.

It’s been a long winter.

It’s time for some spring-like weather.

Larry Aasen was born in a log cabin on the North Dakota prairie — really, he was. In fact the pioneer home is featured on the cover of his latest book.

A city slicker for 60 years, Aasen can’t shake his North Dakota roots.

His wife Martha accuses him of living in the past and Aasen won’t deny it. After all, the past is inspiration for this author of seven books about North Dakota and its rich history.

Aasen was born December 5, 1922 on a farm east of Gardner, N.D.  (more…)

By MICHELLE MCLEAN

In a North Dakota state of mind.

Larry Aasen hasn’t lived in North Dakota for more than 45 years — but his heart just won’t leave.

The public relations man-turned-author has written another book about his beloved homestate. North Dakota 100 Years Ago is a tribute, Aasen says, “to honor the pioneers.”

“They did an impossible thing,” noted Aasen, 85, himself the grandson of immigrant homesteaders who “broke the sod and stayed.”  (more…)

Jamie Horne, a junior forward with the Hillsboro Burros, was named to the Red River Valley All-Conference District 3 team for the second year in a row.

Jake Olsen and Aaron Meyer received honorable mention recognition on the all conference and all-district team named this week.

Horne was one of four juniors named to the 10-player team.  (more…)

For the second time in a year, a Reynolds, N.D. man has been charged with making and selling meth.

Patrick Dale Miller, 49, was arrested March 5 after a search of his rural home west of Reynolds. According to Traill County sheriff Mike Crocker the search was conducted by the state’s parole and probation service and the N.D. Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

Miller was placed on two years of supervised probation in December 2007 when he pled guilty to a felony drug possession charge.  (more…)

Hillsboro Business Association members, already planning on their April 5 free pancake breakfast, are planning months ahead for their Mother’s and Father’s Day promotions.

Meanwhile, HBA president Teran Brown hopes to have at least 30 of the “Welcome to Hillsboro” banners hanging once more from the city light poles on Caledonia Ave. and Main Street.  (more…)

District 20 Democrats endorsed three candidates for the state Legislature at their district convention Sunday in Mayville.

Two incumbents — Senator Elroy Lindaas and Representative Lee Kaldor, both of Mayville — were endorsed for re-election. Rick Holman, Mayville, was endorsed for the House. He hopes to fill the seat  soon vacated by Rep. Ole Aarsvold , Blanchard, who will not seek re-election after 20 years in the Legislature.  (more…)

If there’s a city in North Dakota truly deserving of a skate park, it’s Hillsboro, said by skateboarders to be the flattest city in the state.

With only two sloped paved roads in town, one being a state highway, the other traversing over the Goose River, Hillsboro’s skateboarders are left wanting.

Skateboarders, desperate for a proving ground, explored the possibility of establishing a skate facility on the vacant property at Caledonia and 1st St. NW, downtown Hillsboro, a hard-surfaced lot that once supported four bowling lanes. (more…)

By NEIL O. NELSON

A year ago math and science classroom ActivBoards were education tools Hillsboro teachers heard talked about.

Far from the rage in education, the interactive whiteboards were surfacing in classrooms across the state.

But not in Hillsboro.

Or, in many schools in the neighborhood, for that matter.

Still, the more Hillsboro teachers heard of ActivBoards, they more they were convinced the latest technology introduced to improve learning was worth exploring. (more…)

The Hillsboro School next year will need a high school principal, English teacher, FACS instructor and a librarian.

Gayle King, Elaine Laxdal and Kay Rotvold have announced their plans to retire at the end of the school year.

High school principal Ron Stahlecker, who was hired last summer to replace the departing Kevin Coles, will also be leaving at the end of the school year. (more…)