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Tri-County Fair canceled
George Harrison wrote words about an English winter to which North Dakotan's can relate, “It's been a long, cold, lonely winter.” Temperatures have improved, the landscape is green and teeming with wildlife, but it looks as if it's going to be a lonely summer as well. Add the Tri-County Fair to the growing list of cancellations as the extremely transmissible Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across the country, making large gatherings of people who travel distances a Petri dish for infection.
Posted 5/27/20 (Wed) read more »
Email No Longer in Use
The Wishek Star would like you to know that the wishekstar@gmail.com is no longer in use. Please send all email correspondence for the Wishek Star to redhead@drtel.net
Posted 1/09/19 (Wed) read more »
State taxable sales, Purchases up 10%
Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger has announced that North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases for the second quarter of 2018 had increased by nearly 10 percent. Taxable sales and purchases for April, May and June 2018 were nearly $5.15 billion, a 9.46 percent increase over those months in 2017.
Posted 10/02/18 (Tue) read more »
Dangerous weed
Tom Peters worked to delay what he knew was inevitable: the arrival of Palmer amaranth in North Dakota.
Posted 9/05/18 (Wed) read more »
Open access
District 28 Rep. Jeff Magrum of Hazelton was successful Tues., Aug. 7, in a meeting of the Interim Judiciary Committee in amending a draft bill that would have limited public access to official business of county government.
Posted 8/22/18 (Wed) read more »
New generation
Preston Pfeifle, the fourth generation auto dealer with Pfeifle Chevrolet-Buick, mingled with droves of attendees of the Pfeifle 100th Anniversary on Saturday.
Posted 8/15/18 (Wed) read more »
100 Years
The fourth generation has joined Pfeifle Chevrolet-Buick.
Posted 8/08/18 (Wed) read more »
Ag Leaders
U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., met last week with seven North Dakota FFA state officers to discuss the next generation of agriculture leadership and the work they are doing to better their rural communities.
Posted 8/01/18 (Wed) read more »
Road scholars
McIntosh County commissioners have settled on a contractor for a proposed road shop.
Posted 7/25/18 (Wed) read more »
Talking shop
The long-running saga surrounding a proposed McIntosh County road shop is likely to get a few more chapters.
Posted 7/18/18 (Wed) read more »