Trump administration funding terminations, freezes and layoffs are keeping some North Dakota farmers and rural nonprofits from continuing USDA and other federally funded projects.

The 2025 ASSA Intercollegiate Club Rifle National Championships were held over March 21 and 22, 2025.

The 79th Annual Ice Show for the Lake Region Figure Skating Club was titled “Broadway on Ice” and it was presented March 15 and 16, 2025, at the Burdick Arena.

Like many growing up hunting, fishing and trapping, my memories of our North Dakota game wardens were my first exposure to natural resource law enforcement. In LaMoure, it was Harold Bellin. In Valley City, Delbert Tibke. Prior to becoming a game warden myself, I rode along with Ken Skuza who took me under his wing and helped mentor me in my first post at Bottineau.

According to the brochure for the Lake Region Community Concert Series for 2024-25 the final concert was “To be announced.”

A new person has joined the Spirit Lake Tribe office. Vicki Alberts, from New Town and raised on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, was hired as a public relations specialist. Her father was a member of the Spirit Lake Tribe and grew up in St. Michael. She currently lives in Bismarck and makes the long commute when she is working at the office in Spirit Lake.

The Spirit Lake Tribe, along with other tribes in the state, are helping in the efforts to find 20-year-old college student Renzo Bullhead. Bullhead has been missing since March 16.

LEEDS, ND - The District 9 Democratic-NPL party will hold a meeting to elect new leaders and set a course for the future.

(The first part of this story ran in the Tuesday, March 11 Devils Lake Journal on page 5. This second part was supposed to run on Tuesday, March 18, but I forgot about it. Please accept my apology that it is a week later than I had planned - Louise Oleson, Editor DLJ)