Compiled by LAUREN DONOVAN

Bismarck Tribune

Ashley looked like the television show "Cops" for a few hours last week.

A Pollock, S.D., woman gave police officers the slip after a court hearing, setting off a call for backup and a pretty intense search.

Tina Rohrich, 34, was in town for a hearing at the McIntosh County Courthouse. Sheriff Laurie Spitzer gave Rohrich a lift to the local motel so Rohrich could settle up an unpaid bill.

Rohrich ditched Spitzer at about noon from the motel and showed enterprise, knocking on a few doors until she found someone who would give her a lift to Pollock, not too many miles down the road.

Turns out there was an outstanding warrant for her arrest, based on some bad checks she'd written.

Officers responded to Spitzer's call for help in looking for Rohrich.

They told the Ashley schoolkids to dash out and pull the keys from their vehicles, and told the McIntosh County Bank and the Ashley White Drug store to lock up during a search. Roads in and out of Ashley were closed until 3 p.m.

Rohrich was arrested in Pollock later that day and returned to Ashley, where she was re-arrested for escape and for not paying her motel bill.

Her next court date in Ashley is April 23.

- Ashley Tribune

'Barley pop' idea

A local man has a good idea brewing.

Someday, he may bottle it.

Wishek native David Deile was an outmigration statistic when he left North Dakota after college.

"I longed to return," he said. "I wanted to find something to bring me back - manufacturing or distribution - that could connect to my farming roots and agriculture in general."

He did move back, and one of his jobs was trucking barley, giving him a lot of time to consider the cost and work involved in hauling hundreds of thousands of barley bushels to market.

He concluded that a locally grown, high-quality malting barley could be a key ingredient in a line of craft beers, brewed in Wishek and distributed to surrounding markets.

Deile and others have invested in research and in developing a business plan. They have done a local asset inventory and know what they need to move forward.

What Deile says he needs now are people involved in economic development and investors willing at least to hear him out, maybe over a cold beer. Reach him at 452-2274 or djdeile@;bektel.com.

- Wishek Star

They should build

Most everybody in Hebron wants a new community center.

That's the result of a clip-out and mail-in survey published in the Hebron Herald last month.

The city received 66 surveys, and of those, 51 indicated they'd like the city to proceed with construction, after months of kicking the idea around.

They'd like the building to be pretty big - 5,000 square feet - and were about evenly split on whether it also should be used to house the auditor and police offices.

Otherwise, it would be used for community events.

And, not surprisingly for the Brick City, home of the Hebron Brick Co., a majority favored using brick, though the number who favored steel construction wasn't far behind.

Based on the surveys, the preferred location would be where the existing city hall is located in Hebron, meaning a demolition could be part of the project.

The next step will be for a small committee to come up with a building design, using local talent to do it, and bring ideas to the May city council meeting.

It's possible half the money would come from city funds, and the Lewis and Clark Council for Rural Development could be tapped for a low-interest loan for the other half.

- Hebron Herald