Archive - Jan 18, 2013
Note: The Barnes County girls basketball tournament will resume Saturday at noon. For live scoring, follow Scott Schlaufman on Twitter (@ScottySchlauf) and check out Facebook.com/VCTimesRecord. We'll also be updating scores here at Times-Online.com as the games continue. Brackets and box scores follow the story.
The 2013 Barnes County Girls Tournament championship game will have a familiar feel to it.
For the second straight year, Maple Valley and Valley City High Schools will meet Saturday afternoon to determine the Barnes County Tournament championship.
I’m not a Catholic nor am I a criminal. Yet here I stand in an invisible confessional bearing my soul. In this life I wish to teach as much as I learn. I learned, for instance, sometime during the flood of 2009 never to set my keys on the shelf in a porta-pottie because it’s really not a shelf at all. If you look closely at the shelves in porta-potties they have a single hole in them. I learned it is not a shelf but rather a urinal. The hole has a purpose. The keys have since been washed. Trust me. I confessed that to you because I appreciate humor.
Barnes County officials held an informative meeting with representatives from Stutsman and Richland Counties and Independent Emergency Services, a provider of 9-1-1 networks and equipment, on Wednesday to discuss options and costs for replacing the county’s aged 9-1-1 equipment.
The assessment on the City Auditorium came back lower than city officials had hoped, putting plans on hold for selling the building, City Administrator David Schelkoph said Thursday.
Vanguard assessed the building at $178,500, an amount that will delay plans for the city to sell the Audi.
The Valley City City Commission decided in September to sell the Audi to an interested buyer who met the criteria. City commissioners approved one of two plans presented to them in November. Berkel Properties had presented the city with a plan to repurpose the Audi and make it apartment buildings.
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Dakota Rose Floral will open in their new location at 1125 West Main Street Monday, employee Kathy Jacobson said.
The new location is a bigger facility with more parking space that will allow the business to accommodate their recent staff expansion and consolidation with another flower show.
“We’re busing at the seams at this smaller place,” Jacobson said.
In September Deb White, owner of Dakota Rose Floral, bought all inventory from Bloom N Crafts Floral, owned by Kathy Jacobson.
The cost for First-Class mail will increase by 1 cent Jan. 27, when the price goes from 45 cents to 46 cents, Valley City Postmaster Sherry Johnson confirmed Wednesday.
Along with the increase in cost for First-Class mail, the U.S. Postal Service will introduce a First-Class mail global forever stamp. The new stamp will allow customers to mail letters anywhere in the world at a set price of $1.10. Johnson said this is the first time a global forever stamp is being sold.
Weekend Sports
Friday
BCN, MV, VC, LLM girls basketball
at Barnes County Tournament
See bracket below
VCHS Wrestling @ Storhaug Invitational
5 p.m. in Lisbon
Bluejay girls hockey @ Bismarck
7 p.m. at Schaumberg Arena
Saturday
BCN, MV, VC, LLM girls basketball
at Barnes County Tournament
See bracket below
VCHS wrestling @ Storhaug Invitational
9:30 a.m. in Lisbon
VCHS boys vs. Lisbon
3 p.m. at the HAC
Bluejay boys hockey @ Williston
5:30 p.m. at Agri Sports Complex
VCSU Track and Field @ Bemidji State
All Day in Bemidji, Minn.
When the Valley City High School gymnastics teams had its first home meet of the week Tuesday, Taylor Johnson and Rebekah Fisher kept their scores close.
Thursday, as the Hi-Liners hosted their final home meet of the regular season, a triangular with Fargo and Davies, it wasn't much different.
Johnson got the better score in the floor, Fisher narrowly had the better score on the beam and vault. The two even finished the day with a tie on the bars, scoring 8.2 each.
