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Two former Rugby city council members interviewed for a vacant Ward 1 seat before a four-member panel Monday, Aug. 23, at Rugby City Hall. The panel consisted

Planning and zoning committee denies property variance By Sue Sitter - | Jul 17, 2021 The City of Rugby Planning and Zoning Committee denied a variance request for a residential fence at their regular meeting the evening of July 12 at city hall. Duane Veach presented his request to build an eight-foot high fence around his backyard to the committee. City ordinances place the height limit for residential fencing at six feet. Veach asked the committee for the variance because he contended his ne...

Council talks infrastructure, Ward 1 vacancy By Sue Sitter - | Jul 10, 2021 Sue Sitter/PCT Rugby City Council member Wayne Trottier, left, holds up a map of sections of town slated for infrastructure work at the July 6 regular council meeting. Council members Maurus Brossart, center, and Frank LaRocque look on. Infrastructure and city buildings again took up much of the discussion at the Rugby City Council’s regular meeting July 6 at city hall. Engineer Jim Olson of Grand Forks firm AE2S upd...

Two City of Rugby officials took oaths of office at the Rugby City Council’s regular monthly meeting held at city hall the evening of June 7. Mayor Sue Stei

Hospital board gives nod to Phase 2 of new facility plan By Sue Sitter - | Apr 24, 2021 Submitted Photo An aerial photo of the Heart of America Medical Center campus from a report by accounting firm Wipfli, LLP lists drawbacks to the current facility’s design. The Good Samaritan Hospital Association Board voted unanimously in a special meeting April 14 to move forward with a project to build a new facility for Heart of America Medical Center. Hospital CEO Erik Christenson presented the board...

Council lends support to natural gas study By Sue Sitter - | Apr 10, 2021 Sue Sitter/PCT Cody Chilson of Dakota Natural Gas gives a presentation to the Rugby City Council April 5. The Rugby City Council gave its support at its April meeting to a plan by energy firm Dakota Natural Gas for a feasibility study to bring natural gas to the community. Cody Chilson, the firm’s vice president of operations, and Greg Palmer, president of the firm, presented their proposal to the council at its regula...

The left lost their collective minds over this photo of North Dakota Republican State Representative Wayne Tro...

A Crown Royal bag exposes divide on COVID-19 in North Dakota Democrats and their North Dakota political base keep directing their messaging in a way that is more hopeful of getting a retweet from a New York Times columnist than resonating with North Dakotans. 11:29 am, Feb. 2, 2021 × MINOT, N.D. — Rep. Wayne Trottier, a Republican from Northwood, is a long-time state lawmaker. Hes a grandfather and a veteran and perhaps the quintessential small-town North Dakotan. Pro...

A Crown Royal bag exposes divide on COVID-19 in North Dakota Democrats and their North Dakota political base keep directing their messaging in a way that is more hopeful of getting a retweet from a New York Times columnist than resonating with North Dakotans. 11:29 am, Feb. 2, 2021 × MINOT, N.D. — Rep. Wayne Trottier, a Republican from Northwood, is a long-time state lawmaker. Hes a grandfather and a veteran and perhaps the quintessential small-town North Dakotan. Pro...

Feb 1, 2021 Aside from being an elected official in the great state of North Dakota, he lists as his occupation auctioneer. He’s also a veteran.   But his choice in facemasks is what sets him apart.   North Dakota’s Bismark Tribune newspaper apparently tried to shame his choice in facemask, a Crown Royal bag.    And a Democrat State Rep. tried to pile on but the photo is going viral for its awesomeness.