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  • The daily grind

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 25, 2024

    Jesse Schroeder has been in the arena when things get hairy, and experienced the excitement and tension that comes with those scenarios. The 2002 CHS graduate and veteran of the United States Navy has been a world traveler as part of the Special Warfare Command, and used those skills to combat wildfires in Montana when his service ended. Now, as an arborist, he owns and operates Schroeder Sawyer Service, LLC, a tree removal and stump grinding business out of his home at 305 Main St. in...

  • Cards, area teams hit track, course, diamonds for spring

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 25, 2024

    A drier-than-normal winter has largely kept snow melt drainage to the bare minimum, meaning that if the forecasts remain favorable, the spring sports season can get going in a timely manner. The Carrington track and field team will be the first Cardinal program to christen the 2024 spring with an indoor meet at NDSU's Shelly Ellig Track Complex this past Saturday, March 23. This will be CHS Coach Greg Hoeckle's swan song after a legendary 35-year stint as the leader of the program, which has...

  • Nodak Drones: Ready for takeoff

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 18, 2024

    Drones: They aren't just for photography anymore. Or military applications. Or weather. Or even delivery purposes. The next wave of airborne crop spraying technology has now hit central North Dakota, and Mason Wede of rural Carrington has jumped in on the burgeoning niche business. Wede opened Nodak Drones in an announcement on a Facebook post Monday, March 11, which will operate from his farm just outside Melville and 10 miles south of Carrington at 645 Highway 281 S.E. "I first heard of...

  • Reeling in a big catch

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 18, 2024

    Mike Koenig of Carrington started his taxidermy career as a hobby, and said of the intervening years since, "[It's] grown into much more than that." Twenty-three years into that first plunge into the art of trophy wildlife presentation, one outstanding entry of Koenig's work has been honored as the top of its kind in the state. At the North Dakota Taxidermists Association's (NDTA) 39th annual competition held March 7-10 in Bismarck, his reproduction perch took home the state championship...

  • Pitcrew wins Lisbon dual tourney

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 18, 2024

    The Carrington Pitcrew youth wrestling program met all their opponents head on in the Sheyenne River Valley Friday, March 8, and emerged from the fray with a tall, shiny trophy for their efforts. The Pitcrew cracked the 40-point mark in all three of their duals to take three victories and win the championship at the Lisbon 'Lil' Bronco Dual Tournament. In the first round, Carrington defeated Kindred, 48-12, and defeated host Lisbon by a 43-18 margin before romping to a 47-12 win over Casselton...

  • Everybody talk about... pop music!

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 18, 2024

    The Carrington junior high and high school Music Department performed in their Spring Concert Friday, March 8, in an event rescheduled from February 27 due to winter weather complications. The groups' theme for this concert was 1970's and 80's pop music standards. (Editor's Note: In the print version of this picture story, Renae Raines' last name was misspelled. The Independent regrets the error.)...

  • Region V Large Group Music Festival held

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 18, 2024

    Band and choral ensembles representing Carrington, Griggs County Central, Midkota, Nelson County (Dakota Prairie/Lakota), NR-S and Pingree-Buchanan performed in pursuit of high ratings at the Region V Large Group Music Festival at Carrington Public School Tuesday, March 12....

  • Third P-B elementary bond referendum fails

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 18, 2024

    For the third time, an attempt to pass a bond referendum which would allow a new addition and other building upgrades to Pingree-Buchanan Elementary School in Buchanan has been voted down at the ballot box. Unofficial results posted to the P-B school website at www.pingree-buchanan.k12.nd.us showed 132 votes in favor (52.4% yes), and 120 against (47.6% no), the $5.165 million bond issue from voting conducted Wednesday, March 13, at the elementary school. To pass, the referendum would have had to...

  • $5.1 million question on ballot for third time

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 11, 2024

    Supporters of a facilities improvement project at Pingree-Buchanan Elementary School hope that the phrase "the third time's the charm" will come to pass and help ensure the future viability of the facility for P-B students. For the third time, residents within the district will go to the polls to make their voices heard on a proposed $5.165 million bond referendum to mainly benefit the elementary school complex in Buchanan. The election will be held Wednesday, March 13, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at...

  • 'Shaping' up to Boston

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 11, 2024

    For Trish (Omoth) Kutz of New Rockford, now living in Williston, running for her health, and later for competition, has served as a type of mental therapy. The 2004 NRHS graduate has withstood personal tragedy on her way to becoming a marathoner, and this past September 28, staked her claim to compete in one of the biggest races in the world. Via e-mail message, Kutz learned that she qualified for the Boston Marathon, to be held on Monday, April 15, known as Patriots' Day to the locals on the...

  • A humbling end

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 11, 2024

    Every time the Devils Lake Firebirds took the ball down the floor, it seemed like they'd convert on their possessions in 10 seconds or less. And the Carrington Cardinals were largely powerless to stop it, meaning their season came to a painful conclusion at the Region 2 Tournament at the Lewy Lee Fieldhouse at Mayville State University Monday night, March 4. The Firebirds shot a blistering 25-for-35 in the first half for 71 percent, and kept the pressure on into the third quarter to hit the...

  • CHS girls season BB leaders released

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 11, 2024

    The final statistics for the Carrington girls basketball team for the 2023-24 season have been revealed. This year's iteration of the Cardinals finished with a 17-8 record in their first season in the new Division A, finishing third place in both the Region 2 regular season and tournament, and advancing to the state qualifying game. There, they fell to Region 1 runner-up Valley City, 62-56. Senior Madison Johnson was the top scorer at 11.2 points per game, followed by junior Edyn Hoornaert...

  • It's go thyme!

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 4, 2024

    From his home kitchen, Alfred Eggermont has developed a special talent for culinary excellence that is uncommon for a boy of eleven years old. And the world will get the chance to see the Griggs County Central Elementary student's abilities under the pressure of time constraints, teamwork, and the withering criticism and commentary of four judges. Oh, and there's that $100,000 top prize, too. Eggermont is one of a dozen finalists competing for the nation's top young chef on "MasterChef Junior",...

  • Outside looking in

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 4, 2024

    One year ago, the Valley City Hi-Liners were languishing in the second division of the former Class A's Eastern Dakota Conference (EDC), finishing as the ninth seed with a 6-16 record and losing in the play-in round. What a difference a new classification, and a talented freshman in the mix, makes. The Hi-Liners maximized their size advantage and physicality inside and on the wings to quash Carrington's bid for a state tournament with a 62-56 win Saturday, February 24, in the newly-created...

  • Cards defeat Lady Indians, take 3rd place

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 4, 2024

    By virtue of a second-quarter surge, the Carrington girls ensured themselves of one shot to snag a state Division A Tournament spot Thursday night, February 22. Like the previous two matchups with Four Winds-Minnewaukan, their Region 2 third place game transpired with no team gaining a clear advantage, at least until the second eight minutes rolled around. Two three-pointers by Isabel Wendel and one more from Madison Johnson provided CHS with the breathing room sorely needed, and they largely...

  • Titans win in District 4 opener, upended in semis

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 4, 2024

    The Griggs/Midkota Titans had grand designs for a Region 2 tournament berth, but an upstart semifinal opponent sprang the upset for a Cinderella run to the finals in District 4 Boys Basketball Tournament action from Larimore February 23, 26 and 28. G-M took a 62-53 win over the Hatton/Northwood Thunder as part of first round play, with senior Latrell Rainey's 19 points sparking the Titan offense. Kyle Johnson (13 points) and Isaac Stadler (11) contributed good supporting efforts, and Will...

  • Thunder's season ends at District 2 in qualifying round

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 4, 2024

    M-P-B's aim of getting back to the state tournament came to a premature end at the District 2 Tournament in Jamestown. The Thunder boys took losses of 55-46 to LaMoure/Litchville-Marion on Friday, February 23, and Linton-HMB, 60-44 last Tuesday, to finish their 2023-24 season with a 12-10 record. In between, Coach Bob Young's boys stayed afloat with a 61-37 win over Kidder County in loser-out play Monday, February 26. Terek Kinzell was the only double-figure scorer in the opening loss to the...

  • Running the gauntlet

    Erik Gjovik|Mar 4, 2024

    At long last, the journey of the regular season for the Carrington Cardinals has come to a conclusion. Two more Region 2 games were on the docket before the start of tournaments beginning today (March 4) in Mayville, as the Cards were in action for two road tilts in Grafton and Devils Lake. The first night, February 23, witnessed the second-ranked Spoilers rev up the gas for 67 points in the first three quarters, before putting it in neutral and cruising to a 79-44 win over visiting CHS. One...

  • Greatness across generations

    Erik Gjovik|Feb 26, 2024

    When Jamestown Blue Jay 152-pound senior Grady Anderson stepped into the circle at the Fargodome for the Class A individual boys wrestling championship match Friday night, February 16, he was continuing a family tradition. The grandson of Gary and Bernardine Anderson of Carrington represented the final scion of a familial run of success that may never be duplicated, at least around this area. With his 5-4 victory over Sawyer Carr of West Fargo Sheyenne, Grady completed a dominant 39-1 season,...

  • Clifton captures crown; Cards finish 5th overall

    Erik Gjovik|Feb 26, 2024

    The Carrington Cardinals performed about as well as they could have done in the State Class B Individual Boys Wrestling Tournament. Behind a state championship performance from 152-pound junior Corbin Clifton, and six total wrestlers earning placement, the Cards scored 85.5 points to earn fifth place behind a very-loaded top four in the team standings. South Border scored 185 points to win their first individual Class B title in a 10-year span, and their fifth in the Ashley/Wishek co-op...

  • Garcia, Lindberg runners-up

    Erik Gjovik|Feb 26, 2024

    Khendra Garcia and Ashley Lindberg got on the doorstep of greatness in their second year of varsity wrestling for the Carrington Cardinal girls. Garcia, at 130 pounds, and Lindberg, at 250, reached the state championship match in their weight classes at the one-class State Individual Girls Wrestling Tournament Thursday-Friday, February 16-17, at the Fargodome. As a team, the Cards tied for 11th place with Valley City, scoring 58 points. Bismarck won their second championship in girls...

  • A second chance

    Erik Gjovik|Feb 26, 2024

    With a novel three-tiered divisional alignment system comes a whole new way of approaching the postseason. A loss in the regional tournament, provided it's after the quarterfinal round, does not necessarily mean the end of the road if state competition is in the cards. The Carrington girls basketball team got past the opening round of play with a 59-39 victory last Monday night, February 19, over the Hillsboro/Central Valley Burros at the Region 2 Tournament from Mayville State University's Lewy...

  • Cardinal boys get second win, edge Thunder

    Erik Gjovik|Feb 26, 2024

    The long slog of Division A competition, featuring a top three in Region 2 taking turns running roughshod over the bottom three, meant that victories have been hard to come by for the Carrington boys this season. So, they met up with an old Class B, Region 3 rival from just down Highway 281, and renewed pleasantries with the M-P-B Thunder. The Cards owned the odd-numbered quarters, but the Thunder "evened" things up with their performances in the second and final periods. And, despite not...

  • Titans get past Midway/Minto

    Erik Gjovik|Feb 26, 2024

    A game of runs ended up in the win column for the Griggs/Midkota Titan boys basketball team, as they left Midway High School with a hard-fought 63-62 win over the Midway/Minto Mustangs in action featuring teams who could possibly meet in the Region 2 tournament. Four players hit for double figures for the Titans, now 10-9, in the regular season finale. G-M's three senior leaders, James Woodstead (18 points), Latrell Rainey (15) and Kyle Johnson (13) led the way, while junior Isaac Stadler had...

  • Spell-binding

    Erik Gjovik|Feb 19, 2024

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