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Prayer on Wheels
On Sunday March 19, over 60 vehicles lined up at St. Patrick’s church to pray for the families of Wishek. Currently, there is one positive confirmation of the Corona Virus.
Posted 4/01/20 (Wed) read more »
Wishek Council makes emergency declaration
by Janet Wolff On Friday the 13th of March, Governor Burgum declared a State of Emergency for the State of North Dakota due to the Corona-19 Virus. This declaration was made to contain and mitigate the coronavirus through a “whole-of-government and whole-of-community approach.” The declaration opens up the state to more access to federal resources, including testing capabilities. To continue this approach and make sure Wishek has access to funds that may be needed, the Wishek City Council ratified this declaration of Emergency in a special meeting which took place over the Internet on Zoom on Tuesday, March 24.
Posted 4/01/20 (Wed) read more »
First Coronavirus case reported in McIntosh County
2 P.M. MARCH 26, WISHEK, ND (Updated March 28, 8:10 a.m.) by Tony Bender McIntosh County health officials today (March 26) confirmed the county's first Coronavirus case, a boy under the age of two, who was hospitalized but is now recovering at home. The child's daycare provider, Jamie Vetter, said her Wishek daycare is officially closed for at least 14 days as of Thursday.
Posted 3/26/20 (Thu) read more »
Email No Longer in Use
The Wishek Star would like you to know that the wishekstar@gmail.com is no longer in use. Please send all email correspondence for the Wishek Star to redhead@drtel.net
Posted 1/09/19 (Wed) read more »
State taxable sales, Purchases up 10%
Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger has announced that North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases for the second quarter of 2018 had increased by nearly 10 percent. Taxable sales and purchases for April, May and June 2018 were nearly $5.15 billion, a 9.46 percent increase over those months in 2017.
Posted 10/02/18 (Tue) read more »
Dangerous weed
Tom Peters worked to delay what he knew was inevitable: the arrival of Palmer amaranth in North Dakota.
Posted 9/05/18 (Wed) read more »
Open access
District 28 Rep. Jeff Magrum of Hazelton was successful Tues., Aug. 7, in a meeting of the Interim Judiciary Committee in amending a draft bill that would have limited public access to official business of county government.
Posted 8/22/18 (Wed) read more »
New generation
Preston Pfeifle, the fourth generation auto dealer with Pfeifle Chevrolet-Buick, mingled with droves of attendees of the Pfeifle 100th Anniversary on Saturday.
Posted 8/15/18 (Wed) read more »
100 Years
The fourth generation has joined Pfeifle Chevrolet-Buick.
Posted 8/08/18 (Wed) read more »
Ag Leaders
U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., met last week with seven North Dakota FFA state officers to discuss the next generation of agriculture leadership and the work they are doing to better their rural communities.
Posted 8/01/18 (Wed) read more »