Committee reaches Farm Bill agreement as Gazette goes to press

 
Editor’s Note: Just as the Gazette was going to press on Thursday, May 1, an agreement was reached in conference committee on a new farm bill. Since the details would not be available until after we published, we went to the USDA Web site and picked up some highlights of the bill. This is not [...]

“Viva Las Relay”

by Terri A. Barta
“Viva Las Relay” is the theme for the 10th Anniversary of Ransom County Relay For Life. This event will be held from 7:00 p.m. on Friday, June 13 through to 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 14 at the Lisbon Track Complex.
The goal this year is to raise $50,000 to present [...]

Melodrama at Opera House on Mother’s Day weekend

The melodrama “Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder or…You Are What You Eat” is being presented at the Lisbon Opera House beginning onThursday, May 8 through Sunday, May 11. Thursday through Saturday performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and the Sunday (Mother’s Day) performance begins at 2:30 p.m.
This rollicking melodrama takes place during [...]

Dathe joins Sunrise Spraying Service

Corey Dathe has joined the Sunrise Spraying Service as agronomist.
Dathe brings over three years experience to the job. He graduated from NDSU in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in Crop and Wheat Science. His minor was in ag business.
He is originally from LaMoure, but currently resides in Fargo. He hopes to move [...]

Local tracksters do well at meets

 
by Joe Howell
The Lisbon track and field teams were busy trying to make up for lost time and track meets as the Broncos competed on back to back days on April 27 and 28 in Moorhead and Wahpeton.
The Broncos were to compete in Wahpeton for the Owen Jensen meet on the 28th, but [...]

Bronco Track & Field Athletes of the Week

 
Anthony Finstad, Erik Heitkamp, and Veronica Munkeby were selected by their teammates as the Broncos track and field athletes of the week for their performances during the weeks of April 20 – 28.
Finstad qualified for state in the 3200 run with his personal best of 10:18.  Anthony was a state placewinner a season ago [...]

Paula Jacobson

Name:  Paula Jacobson
Age:  42
Residence:  Valley City, N.D.
Funeral -
Date:  May 3, 2008
Location:  Gustaf Adolf Lutheran Church, Gwinner, N.D. 
Date of Death:  April 27, 2008
Birthplace:  Minneapolis, Minn.

Dorothy Thoreson

The funeral service for Dorothy Thoreson, 80, Valley City, N.D., formerly of Nome, N.D., was held Saturday, May 3, 2008, in Waldheim Lutheran Church, rural Kathryn, N.D.  Burial was in Memory Gardens near Valley City.  She died Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at her home in Bridgeview Estates under the care of her family and Hospice [...]

Clayton Faller

Name:  Clayton Faller
Age:  90
Residence:  Lewiston, Idaho
Funeral -
Date:  May 1, 2008
Location:  Grace Lutheran Church, Lewiston, Idaho
Date of Death:  April 23, 2008
Birthplace:  Swanville, Minn.

Marilyn Hein

Name:  Marilyn Hein
Age:  59
Residence:  Fargo, N.D.
Funeral -
Date:  April 28, 2008 
Location:  Nora Lutheran Church, Gardner, N.D.
Date of Death:  April 23, 2008
Birthplace:  Gardner, N.D.