Foster County Independent - The Official Newspaper for Foster County

Even if just for the first half, the big stage didn't affect the M-P-B Thunder one single bit. After 16 minutes had elapsed, Coach Bob Young's club was right there with the third-seeded Beulah...

Warwick came tantalizingly close to pulling off one of the largest upsets in the history of Class B basketball in the first round in Bismarck, even though the score didn't show it. A 58-43 loss to...

Amy Becker's extensive background in agriculture, and her sense of empathy and an everlasting love for animals, has inspired her to get into massage therapy for our four-legged companions. Coppertop...

Jozey Retzlaff, a junior at Carrington High School, has spent her life on the farm immersed in the Western way of life. Get up early, do your chores, feed your horse and maintain a trusting...

The closing line of 1980 Team USA Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks' fabled speech in "Miracle" to his team before they took on the Soviets rang true for the Medina/Pingree-Buchanan Thunder. "This. ....

As a police officer by profession, Chris Ormiston spends one night weekly at Central City Lanes to unwind from a job that provides its own special level of stress and anxiety. On the evening of...

Back in the early 1980s, Al Trader and his wife, Sandy, didn't quite have a defined idea where life would take them. After Al worked for an eastern North Dakota dealership for a time, the couple's...

Military metaphors are often overused in our sporting-obsessed culture, but M-P-B Coach Bob Young got straight to the point about what Thunder games with the Linton-HMB Lions have resembled this...

Trinity Bible College women's basketball player Brenna Anderson's role on the court for the Lions has blossomed into being one of the team's go-to-players with the recent conclusion of her sophomore s...

For the first few minutes of the Region 3 quarterfinal round, the Carrington Cardinals were doing what they needed to do against District 6 winner Medina/Pingree-Buchanan, according to Coach Tim Ranum...

The years of struggles on the floor as a young budding squad learning to win, have come to fruition for the M-P-B Thunder. After several tournament disappointments, the Thunder finally hit one of...

On early Sunday morning, February 12, the farm house of Rudy and Alexis Theis, located four miles north and four miles east of Carrington in Estabrook Township, went up in flames. With it, many...

Adding a new recreational option for area children to expend their joyous energy is already paying off for the Carrington Youth Center. The indoor play area on the premises was completed this past...

In both of Carrington's games with E-K-M in the girls' Region 3 and boys' District 5 tournaments, the halftime score was 30-20. This time around, the Rebels were the frontrunners, and if the mirror...

Despite the best shooting efforts of Oakes’ Noah Sundby in the first half, the Griggs/Midkota Titans were undeterred in their pursuit of one more game. Sundby hit all five of his three-point shot...

Carrington will be playing in the Region 3 Tournament today (March 6) after defeating the Barnes County North Bison, 77-54, in the qualifying game Tuesday afternoon, February 28, at the District 5...

The Independent-area District 5 teams had their first round of play at the opening postseason tournament Saturday, February 25, at the Jamestown Civic Center. Postponements related to the previous...

In the first quarter of their Region 3 semifinal, it seemed that when the Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier Rebels gave Carrington an inch, the Cards would take a mile. The Rebs were half a step slow in...

The final game in Class B (in its current form) for the Carrington Cardinal girls went in the books as a triumph. It wasn't the storybook ending they pictured for the program in 2022-23, with that...

M-P-B took care of business in the first two rounds at the District 6 Tournament in Hazelton, and made it to the top rung of the ladder to play for the tournament crown. The third-seeded Thunder got...

Two programs fated to be part of the to-be-minted Region 2 of Division A next season got an early start on a new league rivalry Thursday night, February 16, in Thompson. Carrington's final regular...

M-P-B enters the District 6 Tournament in Hazelton on the heels of one confidence-building victory, and a 26-point defeat at the hands of the 10th-ranked Class B team in the state. Gage Magstadt's...

Carrington's planned Monday night, February 20 finale with Napoleon/Gackle-Streeter in the first round of the Region 3 Girls' Basketball Tournament in Jamestown didn't materialize. Instead, the...

It was enough of a chore for M-P-B to just get off uncontested shots in their 56-23 loss to the Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier Rebels in the Region 3 opening round. Following a semi-competitive first quarter...