New Town News - News
NHS College sees growth in a new year
There are new faces and some old faces in new roles as a new academic year begins at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College in New Town.
MHA moves to boost home healthcare
A stronger Home Health Care program is coming to Fort Berthold people according to Gabriell Petri, Director of the MHA Nation Home Health Care Agency. The movement to implement the service is driven by new and existing needs.
New Town welcomes new teachers
Karen Joyce L. Faburada I am a pure-blooded Filipino. I grew up in a small town called Talamban. It is the hometown of my mother’s side of the family.
City, segment talk about recreation
Plans are slowly moving forward for a combination movie theater and bowling alley to be built on the site of the old Vocational Education building on Main Street.
Interpretive Center begins construction
The idea to have a place where the Nueta, Hidatsa and Sahnish people could tell their own story, their way goes back more than a decade and a half. That dream became real Thursday as ground was broken for MHA Nation Interpretive Center at the Earth Lodge Village west of Four Bears.
More than 1,000 help open water park
It looked like a lot of people were ready for the 4 Bears Water Park to open. Temperatures topping 100 degrees might have had a little to do with that.
Olivia has come home
With drones and search equipment still in the room, the Lone Bear family gathered one last time at the site which became search headquarters for Olivia Lone Bear for more than nine months.
We’re Still Here, the Xo’shga ride again
Two years ago, Benjamin Goodbird III led a group of riders from the Watford City area to the TAT Indian Village in Four Bears to commemorate the forced march of his ancestors, the Xo’shga (pronounced Hushka or Hooshga) to settle them on the Fort Berthold Reservation.
Plaza’s chapel found to be N.D.’s oldest
The old Plaza Congregational Church, a museum since 1975, is the “new” oldest chapel in the state of North Dakota. According to the 1955 “North Dakota History” publication, the chapel was erected in 1880, and elders say it was designed by Architect and Fort Berthold Missionary Rev. Dr. Charles L. Hall.
Coffee and Conversation
It was a quiet morning in New Town when Mike Chausee, Associate State Director of AARP and volunteer Russ McDonald came to town to visit with senior citizens recently.
