Ryder News

Gov. John Hoeven is asking North Dakotans to fly all U.S. and state flags at half-staff today for Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

DOUGLAS The fire chief for the Douglas Fire Department fought the flames in street clothes and slippers until help arrived, but it wasn't enough to save his rural residence from a Thanksgiving Day fire.

William "Bill" A. Dokken, 60, rural Max, and formerly of Minot, died Monday, Nov.

The FBI is investigating a death threat against U.S. Rep. Brian Baird. U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt.

For almost half-a-century, old time farming has been showcased in the Makoti Threshing Show each year.

WASHBURN Funding amounting to $400,000 for the City of Washburn to upgrade its 30-year-old water treatment plant is included in an appropriations bill for the U.S. Department of Interior that the Senate approved Friday.

A small-town school will be closing its doors after a vote by the school board this week.

RYDER North Shore Elementary School is to be closed after this school year and the elementary students sent to school in Plaza, Lewis and Clark school district board members decided Monday night.

Elizabeth Swenningson, 95, Garrison, died Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, in a Garrison hospital.

Adeline I. Anderson, 81, died Thursday, Aug. 20, in the Garrison Hospital from heart failure.

The Environmental Protection Agency's drinking water standard for arsenic used to be 50 parts per billion and at that time all the public water systems in North Dakota were meeting the standard.

Donald Magandy, 81, Ryder, died Thursday, July 30, 2009, in a Bismarck hospital.

Ordean Delmar Sherven, 75, Minot, formerly of Ryder, died Saturday, July 25, 2009, in his home surrounded by his family, from brain cancer that was diagnosed May 30, 2009.

Many communities in Ward County have projects that need to be completed but money is standing in the way.

RYDER The annual bullriding event, annual mud run and pickup pull, and a school reunion, along with other activities are being planned for this year's annual mid-July celebration in the Ryder community.