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Eye on the ball
The Hillsboro Burros, a post-season playoff team last year, held their first practice of the new season Tuesday night at midnight, a tradition with the Mark Rerick-coached HHS squad. Their second practice was later Wednesday morning, the start of two-a-days. The Burros’ first game is Tuesday, Aug. 26 at Thompson. The first home game is [...]
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Dream job found in Hillsboro School
By NEIL O. NELSON
Opportunities, all around.
When he was a lineman in Ohio, Terry Baesler dreamed he might have chosen the wrong profession.
He could have been a teacher; many in his family were, including his mother.
Glen Campbell gave linemen a license to dream, right?
After seven years as a lineman with the Dayton, Ohio, Power and Light [...]
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Rahr at Taft keep trucks rolling
The barley harvest this time of the year has trucks jockeying for position on a daily basis at the Rahr Malting Co. at Taft.
The semi-frenzied routine ? customary at harvest ? returns after the valley?s corn and bean leave the fields.
Kevin Grothmann, independent trucker out of Hillsboro, hauls on a regular basis from the Taft [...]
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Barley first crop to come off fields in 2008 harvest
By NEIL O. NELSON
Mark Steenson combined his first field of barley Sunday.
Rain Monday stopped the harvest.
Tuesday?s early rain didn?t help matters; barley sprouting in the swaths was suddenly problematic.
Still, Steenson is guessing there?s a ?pretty fair crop out there.?
But it?s a long ways from being in the grain bin, he suggests.
All reports suggest the barley [...]
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HTC offers community grant program
Halstad Telephone Company recently introduced its Community Co-operation Grant Fund to assist with projects in HTC?s service area.
Projects eligible for the grant program ?sustain and enhance life, safety and growth of a community,? according to HTC.
Grants through the program are available to bona fide community organizations for projects of more than $500 for 2008. Projects [...]
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Forced family fun.
In a house with three teenagers, it seems we don?t take the time for all-day family outings like we used to. The kids have all got summer jobs and boyfriends or girlfriends to keep them busy. Outings with old Mom and Dad fall farther down the list of ?things to do? than a decade ago [...]
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Energy challenge locks us in ?fail-safe?
If the earth holds its breath until the United States takes the lead in tackling the energy crisis, it will die of asphyxiation. As the biggest glutton in the world energy market, the United States will never find it to its economic interest to curb energy consumption.
First, there are political problems. When the pipeline was [...]
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Over the Years
60 YEARS AGO
August 13, 1948 ? Hillsboro city supt. I.E. Lane reported that there was little difference in the quality of water between the city’s old wells and new ones. Tests conducted by UND labs showed a slighter degree of hardness and more sodium, which creates a greater laxative effect. The water sources will be [...]
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Borghild Aanderud
Borghild Aanderud, 83, Hillsboro, N.D. died Friday, August 7, 2008 at Hillsboro Medical Center.
Funeral services were Tuesday, August 12 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Hillsboro. Burial was at Viking Cemetery near Maddock, N.D.
Wildeman Funeral Home of Hillsboro was in charge of arrangements.
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Halfway home
Shifting gears.
The Hwy. 200 reconstruction project shifted south Monday morning ? and shut down Caledonia Avenue, arguably the busiest intersection in the city.
The $2.9 million project now technically past the halfway point. Work on the north end of the city?s primary north-south thoroughfare is in ?tidy up? mode.
Residents can expect that their mailboxes will [...]
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