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Commissioner
details oil tax
trigger status
State Tax Commissioner Ryan
Rauschenberger provided a detailed
summary of the current status of the
North Dakota oil tax and oil tax in-
centives, better known as triggers, at
a June 1 news conference.
"Our office has been watching the
price of oil very closely," said
Rauschenberger. "It needed to be
under $55.09 for the month of May
in order for the large trigger to acti-
vate on June 1 ."
The average price per barrel of oil
(as reported for West Texas Interme-
diate crude) for the past five months
is as follows:
• January $47.98
February $50.86
• March $47.76
• April $54.12
May $59.47
"Since the average price per bar-
rel of oil in May was higher than the
$55.09 trigger price, the large trigger
will not take effect," Rauschenberger
added. "However, the small trigger is
still in place through the month of
June."
The small trigger took effect on
Feb. 1, 2015. It lowered the oil ex-
traction tax rate from 6.5 percent to 2
percent on the first 75,000 barrels
produced or the first $4.5 million of
gross value during the first 18
months after completion of a well.
New law via House Bill 1476 will
impose a 5 percent oil extraction tax
beginning on Jan. 1, 2016. A new
high price trigger will increase the oil
extraction tax rate to 6 percent if the
price per barrel of oil is greater than
$90 for three months. House Bill
1476 also repeals the current small
and large triggers.
Mary Cook checks out her birthday cake and pictures on May
23. (Photo by Jane M. Cook)
Family celebrates
90 years of love
SENTINEL BUTTE - The family
of Mary Cook hosted an open house
birthday party Saturday, May 23, at
the Sentinel Butte Community Hall
in celebration of her 90th birthday.
Many guests came from out-of-
state, such as Marlyn Langerud from
Hawley, Minn., and her daughters,
Rita and Roxanne, Edna Meidinger
from Miles City, Mont., who came
with Iva Rae and Dora Meidinger
from Terry, Mont., and Butch and Pat
O'Dean from Vancleave, Miss.
Many local residents also stopped
in to visit and wish Mary a happy
90th birthday. After the open house,
the family finished off the celebra-
tion and met at La Playa Restaurant
in Beach for supper.
Golden Graduates
Class of 1965 alumni honored as Golden Graduates at the Beach High School graduation on May 24, are from left: Linda
(Wosepka) Filcowski, Golva High School; Linda (Metcalf) Ridenhower; Marvin Abraham, Beach High School; Bill Lowman, Sen-
tinel Butte High School; and Janice Schmeling, Beach High School. (Courtesy Photo)
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Performing 50 years ago
Singers perform with the first Medora Musical in 1965. More about the musical's anniver-
sary will appear in a future edition. (Courtesy Photo from Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foun-
dation's 50th Anniversary Commemorative Book)
Residents can
sign up
emergency calls
Area residents can opt to re-
ceive a phone call regarding evac-
uation notices, missing children
reports and other community
alerts.
Signing up for the service is
relatively simple through Golden
Valley County's web page: gold-
envalleycounty.org. The signup is
through a company known as
Emergency Communications Net-
work L.L.C.
To sign up, a resident is asked
to provide his or her name, and
whether the address he or she i
providing is for a residence or a
business.
Residents have the options of
signing up for text messages, e-
mails, or for a tone delivery device
if they are hearing impaired.
Election set
The election for the Beach
School District will be held Tues-
day, June 9, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at
the Beach High School.
Those running are incumbent
Kim Nunberg and newcomer Terry
Week, city position; and Robert
Sperry, rural position.
Senators request study to impro00/e postal delivery
As the U.S. Postal Service in
some areas continues to face prob-
lems providing timely mail deliv-
ery and service, U.S. Sens. Jon
Tester, D-Mont., and Heidi
Heitkamp, D-N.D., want better
postal data so policymakers can
make informed decisions on how to
improve service.
Tester and Heitkamp recently
wrote Postal Regulatory Commis-
sion (PRC) Chairman Robert Taub
to urge his agency to conduct an in-
depth study of rural mail delivery.
Since 2011, two-thirds of Mon-
tana's mail processing facilities and
one-third in North Dakota have
been closed, increasing delivery
times for first-class mail and virtu-
ally eliminating overnight mail de-
livery in much of the region.
"Recent changes to USPS deliv-
ery standards coupled with pro-
cessing plant closures and
consolidations have had a devastat-
ing impact on the quality of service
in rural America," the senators
wrote. "We firmly believe that the
"Recent changes to USPS delivery standards coupled with pro-
cessing plant closures and consolidations have had a devastating
impact on the quality of service in rural America,"
Senators Tester and Heitkamp
continued closure and consolida-
tion of mail processing plants
across the country hinders letter
carriers' ability to ensure timely de-
livery and diminishes the Postal
Serviee's competitiveness and rel-
evancy in a twenty-first century
business environment."
The senators want the study to
focus on mail service between rural
communities and between urban
and-rra-I c0mmuriities. They re-
quested that PRC's findings be
made public semi-annually.
Tester and Heitkamp recently
hosted a roundtable with stake-
holders to discuss the Postal Ser-
vice's sizeable-impact in rural
America. Last month, Heitkamp
broughttog'ther the first bipartisan
meeting of solely senators from
rural states, including Tester, to
speak with the U.S. postmaster
general about the impact that mail
processing facility closures and
service standard reductions have
had on families and communities
throughout rural America. Both
senators were critical of recent
Postal Service decisions that they
say degraded delivery standards in
their home states.
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