ND Veterans Home receives Community Service Award

North Dakota Veterans Home is being recognized for 115 years of excellent service. They have been awarded the 2008 Community Service Award by the North Dakota Long Term Care Association (NDLTCA). North Dakota Veterans Home has provided quality service and enhanced the lives of residents in long term care.
This year, North Dakota Veterans [...]

Law enforcement concerns brought to City Council

The main item on the agenda at the Lisbon Council meeting on Tuesday evening, May 6, was concerns brought by a group of ten business people and other citizens. Debbie Jensen, who owns several businesses in the Lisbon area, opened the group’s presentation by explaining that she had asked to be placed on the agenda [...]

Farm bill cost still too high

 
 
The White House told members of Congress on Tuesday that the cost of the five-year farm bill is still too high, saying negotiators are using budget gimmicks to hide the real expense.
The cost of the almost $300 billion bill and the amount of subsidies directed toward wealthy farmers remain the major sticking points between [...]

Council hears first reading of proposed ordinance raising city sales tax by a half percent

 
 
by Janet Hansen
The Lisbon City Council, meeting on Monday evening, May 5, heard the first reading of a proposed ordinance which would add an additional one-half percent to the city’s sales tax. 
The council had earlier discussed adding the extra half-percent sales tax in order to help pay for the water, sewer, and street [...]

County commissioners answer questions on “Vote by Mail” process

 
by Janet Hansen
Commissioner Steve Dick commented that he had been hearing from quite a few people who had not received their cards to return for a ballot for the upcoming primary election’s Vote by Mail process. The board discussed the fact that state-wide forms were mailed only to those who voted in the 2004 [...]

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 [...]

Board accepts construction contracts… LHS remodeling project to begin

by Jan Hansen
The Lisbon School Board met in special session on Tuesday, April 22, to award contracts for a ceiling, diffuser, and lighting replacement project to be done in the high school building this summer. The project is the first phase of an extensive remodeling project planned for the high school building, which was [...]

LHS Student Council participates in The Battle of the Belts

 
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