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By MICHELLE MCLEAN

Hillsboro’s housing boom comes with a down side for taxpayers.

As homebuyers pay higher prices for new and existing homes, owners of similar homes see their taxable values increase as well.

“Sales is what’s steering all assessments,” explained Merrill Meyer, half of the Portland, N.D.-based assessor team contracted by the city.  Keep reading →

By MICHELLE MCLEAN

Hillsboro residents will soon have a chance to count the dollars and cents behind a proposal for a new water treatment plant.

A public informational meeting on the matter has been tenatively set for Thursday, May 29 at 7 p.m.

City commissioners heard from their head engineer Monday night about what customers can expect to pay for water if Hillsboro builds a new treatment plant.  Keep reading →

It’s too bad Mother Nature isn’t a golfer.

Then again, maybe she is. And she isn’t ready to golf just yet.

Regardless, said Mike Crocker, she isn’t cooperating.

Consequently, Hillsboro’s 9-hole grass green golf course, which opened for the season last week, is letting Mother Nature dictate what days the course is open.  Keep reading →

HHS track and field athletes have competed in two recent track meets and one Burro runner has qualified for state.

Senior Kiley Coles ran a state-qualifying time of 5:33.5 in the 1600 meters Tuesday at the Central Cass Invitational. She won that event as well as the 800 meters (2:31.9) and placed 2nd in the 400 meters (1:04.6).

Coles has been a state qualifier every year since she was an 8th grader.

Teammate Rachel Meyer placed 3rd in the 800 and 1600 at Casselton. The freshman’s times were 2:41.7 and 5:59.4. Senior thrower Maggie McLean placed 4th in both the discus and javelin. Her distances were 93’5” and 94’1”. Sophomore Calli Lemm placed 6th in the 3200 meters with a time of 14:24.4. Keep reading →

The Hillsboro School has a new high school principal ready to come on board next fall.

Terry Baesler, currently the high school principal at Northern Cass, will start work in August.

Baesler was one of 15 who applied for the position and one of four interviewed.

Interim principal Ron Stahlecker, who was hired to replace Kevin Coles, is leaving the Hillsboro School at the end of the school year.  Keep reading →

Barry Olson thinks he has a handle on the farmers’ mood: speculative.

Anxious works, too, he said.

Anyway you look at it, he continued, “they’re ready to get rolling.”

The mood of the farmers? Good, bordering on happy.

Happy, bordering on smiling.

“They’re spending money,” he says, smiling.  Keep reading →

Four candidates were scheduled to be interviewed today (Friday) for the Hillsboro High School principal position.

A seven-member committee of administrators, school board members, faculty and staff will aid in the selection process, according to Supt. Mike Bitz.

Chosen from 15 applicants, the candidates are:  Mark Rerick, English teacher and athletic director at Hillsboro High School; Terry Baesler, high school principal at Northern Cass School; Dan Holder, a teacher at West Fargo, N.D., High School; and David Nowatzki, a science teacher at Grand Forks Red River High School.  Keep reading →

Hillsboro Elementary School will continue to accommodate a Headstart preschool program next fall.

School board members decided at their April 10 meeting to convert the elementary computer lab into a regular classroom and purchase a wireless computer lab in order to continue to provide classroom space for the Mayville State University-sponsored program.

The new arrangement will keep  preschool students in their year-old classroom and provide another classroom for grade school students.  Keep reading →

Hillsboro’s traditional school science fair changed faces this year with the introduction of the Science Olympiad Wednesday afternoon. Students in grades 5-12 competed as two-person teams in several STEM events — science, technology, engineering and math. Austin Smith, Payton Kritzberger and Kylie Pastian
took a hands-on approach to working with drinking straws in the scaled-down construction of platforms. The competition continues Monday.

60 YEARS AGO
March 26, 1948 — Hillsboro was chosen as the first in a series of talent shows to be conducted throughout the area by WDAY Radio, announced program manager Ken Kennedy. Gordon Falconer of Hillsboro Dry Cleaners was in charge of local tryouts. The local American Legion Post was sponsor of the Friday night “Talent Parade.”
Traill County agent R.L. Nelson reported “a lively interest” in the rat killing campaign slated for the month of April. Cities and townships were joining together in the eradication effort aimed at preserving food and feed supplies. Orders for poison bait would take two weeks to fill, Nelson said, noting help from state and federal services.  Keep reading →