McClusky Gazette News
Among COVID closures, weather, and personal schedule challenges this fall, the annual McClusky Merchants Association Thanksgiving Turkey giveaway deadline, drawing date, and pick-up turkey framework underwent a last-minute alteration.
Déjà vu all over again
McClusky School students are back in school; COVID count is down, and Halloween is past.

Halloween brings friendly invaders and ghosts
The wind was making it more difficult for the taller decorations, but the walk around town was fruitful for the Halloween invaders.
COVID uptick results in Halloween cancellations
No pancakes, no sausage, no hayride, no Merchant’s meeting, no Pumpkin Festival, no Friday night dance. Sadness hangs over school and community.

The Governor, in consultation with the North Dakota Department of Health (NDDOH), will make the determination to change COVID state level colors.

Sheridan County 4-H Awards recognize achievements
Sheridan County 4-H Council held its annual Awards Banquet on October 10 at the McClusky Elementary School.
JDA addresses business and community’s future
With much information on hand, at the meeting on October 4, with several reports presented, the McClusky JDA was concise and thorough in the jobs before it.
Reach out for that life line
Imagine yourself in a blizzard so thick and cold and blinding that you could not see your hands right in front of you. Such blizzards were common 150 years ago on the upper great plains.

Little Free Library to serve community
An idea developed over a year, then drew to reality when Jerry Reiswig built the Little Free Library. Sponsor of the idea and the library’s continuing completion, Diane Holen.
New place to call home
With the usual sidewalk superintendents and interested residents, the former home of Eugene and Freida Wahl moved from the farm residence east along ND Highway 200 to town.