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By NEIL O. NELSON

Hillsboro School board members are expected to decide next month if there is adequate room in the elementary school to provide preschool classes next year.

The Mayville State University Headstart program, which approached the Hillsboro School last year, asking only for a classroom with “four blank walls,” is expected to make the same request before the start of the 2008-2009 school year. (more…)

Traill County’s economic development agency, long standing and long stagnant, is searching for a new direction.

Its board of directors, complete with some new faces, we understand, is without a director, however. A search is underway for the individual who we hope can see through the maze of smoke stacks promising industry; the incalculable number of call centers looking for a new home; and the sleazy types with their hands out, smiling all the while as municipal funds are given them with no questions asked. (more…)

Yada, yada, yada.

I shoulda been a cowboy

Floris wanted me to be a piano player in a bordello. Or, was that Orlando who wanted that for his son?

I ended up writing newspapers of the weekly variety.

Sure, I’ve worked for dailies before, once with the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, the southwest’s strongest daily.

But that was a lifetime ago.

At my age, everything is a lifetime ago. (more…)

You had to smell it. There’s no denying it.

Spring is just around the corner. It has to be. It’s mid-March. Easter is in a week. The sun doesn’t set until nearly 8 o’clock.

I know, I heard the forecast for the weekend. Some fool says the “biggest snowstorm of the winter” is headed our way and is destined to drop something like 10 inches of snow on us. Don’t try to scare me! It ain’t gonna happen. (more…)

60 YEARS AGO

February 27, 1948 — Continuous winds throughout Traill County and the Red River Valley during the past week kept all county and side roads blocked, marooning travelers at farm houses and reducing business and social activities to a standstill. After a blizzard with 70 mph winds, snow removal crews had just cleared roads when a heavy wet snow fell, followed by freezing rain that turned highways into skating rinks. Ten travelers tried to follow a snowplow from Mayville to Hillsboro Sunday but were stranded at a farm until Tuesday afternoon.

Mile 26 Air Field in Alaska was renamed in memory of Hatton-born pilot-explorer Col. Carl Ben Eielsen. (more…)

L. Orwell Holmberg, 88, Fargo, N.D. died Saturday, March 8, 2008 at Bethany Homes, Fargo.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 2 p.m. at Bethany Homes, Fargo. Burial will be in Mayville Cemetery, Mayville, N.D.
Hanson-Runsvold Funeral Home of Fargo is in charge of arrangements.

Burdell Tollerude, 91, Moorhead, Minn., died Sunday, March 9, 2008 at Eventide Lutheran Home in Moorhead.
A memorial service was held Thursday, March 13, 2008 at Bottolfson Chapel, Eventide Lutheran Home, Moorhead.
Korsmo Funeral Service of Moorhead, Minn. was in charge of arrangements.