Valley City News

Valley City Public Works will spray for mosquitos on Wednesday, June 19 beginning at about 8 p.m. and Thursday if needed, weather permitting.

Organizers of Barnes County's 2013 Relay for Life will be selling ballon-carried floating lanterns to be released the night of the annual event set for Friday.

Rally in the Valley community days weekend will have no shortage of wheels. A car show and vehicle events are set for Saturday, and a hill climb is planned for Sunday.

A new group calling itself Friends of the Bandshell has organized in an attempt to raise an estimated $150,000 needed to repair and build a foundation for the bandshell in Valley City's City Park.

Ron Tolstad, left, and Tom Nix, Korean War veterans and members of Valley City's Veterans of Foreign Wars club, are the reason Main Street is lined with American flags this summer.

In her first time competing at a Soap Box Derby event, seven-year-old Marie-Mai Langevin of Fort Frances turned in a strong performance at Valley City, N.D. on Saturday.

Opatz, Hart Take First In Soap Box Derby Valley City's Central Avenue North was lined with hundreds of people Saturday for the Sheyenne Valley Soap Box Derby.

The United States flag flies high at the Veterans Memorial Park in Valley City Friday afternoon.

Renovations for a new 9-1-1 dispatch center in the Barnes County Courthouse basement have already begun in spite of the county's failure to obtain a building permit for the project.

Local cosmetologist Terry Moritz hosts a Look Good Feel Better class every month for local women who are faced with appearance-related side effects of cancer treatments.

The interviewing committee for the elementary building principal position plans to recommend Chad Lueck to the Valley City Public Schools school board to receive a contract to be the new principal at Washington Elementary School.

Thomas Jefferson will be coming to North Dakota Oct. 15 in the body of North Dakota historian Clay Jenkinson, who portrays the famous third U.S. president each week on Prairie Public Radio.

Valley City officials and George Gaukler said Tuesday they are pleased with a Sheyenne River bank stabilization project on Main Street adjacent to the Marketplace and the Old Elks Apartments.

HJ Norman stands between his two trucks built for mudding, a Mazda on the left and a 1985 Chevy, right, which he calls "Bi Polar."

An upstairs apartment in this Valley City rental house on Central Avenue South was heavy damaged in a fire early Sunday morning.

For the first time Valley City's Sheyenne Valley Soap Box Derby planned for Saturday will be run by the new Sheyenne Valley Soap Box Derby Club.

Greg Hanson reads the Times-Record while on vacation at Mt. Rushmore. Readers who send vacation photos of themselves reading the Times-Record while on vacation will have their photos published and be entered in a drawing for a free subscription to the T-R. This summer's vacation packing should include more than swimsuits and sunscreen.

The Valley City Park District is planning another summer of Music at the Courthouse on Wednesday evenings at 7:15 p.m. starting June 5. Local musicians are featured each week showcasing their talents for the community and surrounding area.

Bridges Bar and Grill attached to the AmericInn is the newest bar in Valley City, making the bars-per-people in Valley City a little higher than it was just a week ago.

A crane moves a concrete box culvert on Ninth Avenue NW in Valley City in phase II of a two-year total reconstruction project.