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MOSER READY FOR FIRST YEAR AS HETTINGER PRINCIPAL By Cole Benz
lic School Superintendent Larry Sebastian said the offer and acceptance happened very fast. “It was a very quick turnaround time,” Sebastian said. Moser comes to Hettinger with 15 years of experience in education. Born in Baker, Mont., Moser went on to attend college at Dickinson State University. Upon graduating he accepted a position teaching in Bowman. He would be in Bow-
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Hettinger opens the new school year with a new face in the administrative offices, Ryan Moser. Moser will start this year as the new Principal at Hettinger School. He was offered the contract before the school year was finished last spring, and a few days later accepted the position. Hettinger Pub-
man for five years before moving on to the next endeavor. Moser took a job in Scranton following his stay in Bowman, a position he would keep for the next nine years before switching career gears all together. While taking a break from education, Moser worked in the oil fields before coming back into the schooling environment last year. Moser was employed at
South Heart School during the 2014-2015 school year as a science teacher. When he first went into the education field he never intended on moving into the administrative side because he enjoyed teaching, but the Hettinger position seemed to be the right fit at the right time. “The opportunity came up and it seemed like a good fit, so I thought this was a perfect opportunity,” Moser said. When asked what about
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the position encouraged him to apply, he said it was his familiarity with the area, some people on staff and some of the students. “I am very familiar with the area, I know some of the kids and some of the staff and it just seemed like a good fit,” Moser said. Sebastian said that Moser’s recommendations were excellent and that he knew some of the adminis-
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HETTINGER AIRPORT Record El Niño A YEAR IN REVIEW forecast to give CELEBRATES 85 YEARS North Dakota WEATHER
a warm, dry winter By Bryce Martin
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Nighthawk basketball teams both down Harding County
This year’s El Niño could be the strongest recorded since 1950, according to officials with the National Oceanic and By SHELDON CHRISTENSON of that, their 6’4” center Mason 26 but the Ranchers fell just Nighthawks. County girls wh AtmosphericHarding Administration. If current For the Pioneer Teigen left the game late in the short by two points. Sadowsky scored 34forecasts for HSarecame in with a 1-3 record. accurate, North Dakota will T 3-point- Hettinger/Scranton first quarter with three fouls They had a chance to tie the which included five consequently girls al experience a warmer, drier Harding County came to and would not return until the game with less than a minute ers and Brandon Pierce added jumped out to an early lead winter. ranton on Dec. 18 and 19 to 2nd half. The Nighthawks built to go but, Sam Kludt blocked 21. I had Clayton KochBecause the large lead- ofthey wereeffects headsuggested 16-1 after t ke on the Nighthawk boys a 13-point lead at the end of the a close in shot by Teigen which ing Harding Co. with 23bypoints. the El Niño forecast, the 25-15 National first stop, and at ha d girls’ basketball teams, and first half which was highlighted more than likely saved the The Nighthawk JV team Oceanic Atmospheric AdministraalsoandThey held on in the second ha t going 0-2 for their efforts. (NOAA)although has issuedbeing an El Niño adremains undefeated tion as they by a buzzer-beating long range game from being tied. outscored 2 visory. Hettinger-Scranton’s boy’s 3-point shot by Haden SadThe Ranchers got the ball downing Harding Co. 63-53. 21 to pull off their second w The term El Niño refers to the largesketball team faced the owsky, which made the score back with 10 seconds left but Harding Co. came into the of the seasonclimate to go along scale ocean-atmosphere phe- wi nchers first and pulled out 38-25. and re- linked could not get off a good shot. game with a 2-0 recordnomenon five losses. to a periodic warming 64-62 win. The Nighthawk’s in With the return of Teigen in Kludt was having a problem ceiving votes in the top Casey Joppa across talliedthe19 an in five sea-surface temperatures l court pressure initially gave the second half, better shoot- finding his shooting touch but South Dakota Class B ranks. central and east-central Pacific. added 11 f Kinsey Jahner e Ranchers trouble as they ing and rebounding, they out- his blocked shot was definitely current El Nighthawks. Niño arrived inBoth March, The following nightThethe the had tw ickly fell behind 12-0. On top scored Hettinger/Scranton 37- one of the key moments for the Nighthawk girls downed as predicted by forecasters. Since then, the 3-pointers. above normal sea-surface temperatures across the equatorial Pacific have continued to increase. According to Mike Halpert, deputy diTOP: Hettinger residents stand around a plane while the pilot, named Mamer, refuels. The photo was dated June 1930 and refers to the building rector of the NOAA Climate Prediction as the ‘new airport.’ According to records the airport was opened in 1930. BOTTOM: The same airplane hangar as it looks today. Center, a temperature increase of 3.6 degrees or greater is likely to be observed and going. pany Northwest Airlines. purchased by Cecil Melby. in a portion of the Pacific Ocean, an By Cole Benz A gentleman by the name At the time, the Hettinger Under Melby’s ownership event that has only been recorded three Record Editor of William Odu was instru- airport was one of the only fa- the hangar served as a night times over the last 65 years—recorded cbenz@gmail.com mental in getting the airport cilities in the area. There was club and was operated by during the 1972-73, 1982-83, 1997-98 El established. Odu, a veteri- an airport near the Mobridge, the Legion Club. The hangar, Niño episodes. The airport in Hettinger narian and aviation enthusi- SD area and there was a facil- which was the only privately That small temperature change leads started with one hangar and ast, was a Hettinger resident ity in Miles City, Mont. owned building on the airport to impacts already seen on the east coast a grass runway, somewhat who previously operated drug According to Jay B. grounds, was eventually sold of the United States, specifically a rather humble beginnings to one of stores outside the area before Lindquist—Chairman of the to Lindquist who kept ownerinactive hurricane season, and enhanced the oldest running airports in becoming a vet. Adams County Airport Au- ship of it until the early 1970s, activity in the east and central Pacific the region. A picture dated June 1930 thority—the airport was very when the Federal Aviation Ocean. That activity is anticipated to last Since its inception in 1930, of a pilot stopped for refueling active up until the start of Administration (FAA) apfor the next few months. Further impacts the airport has expanded to a is one of the earliest displays World War II, by this time proached the airport with a won’t be visible until winter. campus that includes multi- of the airport. According to the grass runway was fully proposal. “Although we know what the typical ple hangars, storage facilities, records, that pilot formed a formed and used often. a fueling station and a hospi- company that was the early As the traffic subsided durAIRPORT| PAGE 2 EL NIÑO| PAGE 3 tality space for pilots coming beginnings of the large com- ing the war, the hangar was
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