New Town News - News
Decline continues for third quarter taxable sales and purchases
Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger today released the 2016 third quarter taxable sales and purchases report.
Winter driving still an adventure
North Dakota’s winter roads can be treacherous. Anyone who has grown up here can tell you that. A year like this, where five storms have swept across the region since Thanksgiving makes venturing out even more adventurous.
School board has quiet meeting
There was little controversy on the latest agenda of the New Town School Board. Most of the discussion centered on activities in the various schools and the impacts of legislation being consdiered in Bismarck.
Continued storms complicate cleanup
It is still early in the winter of 2016-17, but it is turning into a memorable one.
Residents cope with near record snow
When Mother Nature whooped her blizzard on North Dakota this Christmas, area people were ready for it.
Christmas blizzard dumps on region
It has been named formally or informally the Christmas Blizzard of 2016.
City work nearly complete
The New Town City Council reviewed its construction projects for 2016 and found that all of them were very nearly complete.
Eagles elves prepare holiday feasts
If you are looking for Santa’s elves, you would not need to look any further than New Town High School. The Family And Consumer Science class at New Town was very busy recently.
Schools grow as revenue drops
The New Town School Board took another step to cope with an influx of students that continues to grow in spite of a drop in oilfield activity.
Edwin Benson, last fluent Nu’eta speaker, dies at 85
The death of Edwin Benson, of Twin Buttes on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, who was the last living fluent speaker of Mandan could bring the possible extinction of a language that expressed the unique experiences and perceptions of a once-thriving tribe of Plains Indians.
