Linton, ND

June 10th was the day for the primary election. There is a city election as well as a county and a district election. This year was a change of scenery for voters if they applied for the vote by mail option. Total voters in Emmons County were 841 citizens. Of those 841, 200 voted in person at the Linton which is the county seat for Emmons County. 640 people used the vote by mail option. Each voter had to apply in late April. Applications were processed and ballots were sent out on May 6th. Vote by mail is essentially voting by absentee. Results of the cities of Hazelton, Strasburg, Linton , Emmons County Commissioner and national elections for Emmons County can be found at www.EmmonsCountyRecord.com.

Katherine Svanes of Linton is our consumer choice guru! She is completing her 3rd year in 4H consumer choices. Her brother Alexander is also taking part this year. Alexander is in the beginner group and will be participating only in the county level. Katherine will be participating in the pre-teen level at state fair in July.

Update to geocaching placement; There has been 10 visitors to Linton’s geocache since October 2007. Exciting to hear that there were visitors to Linton’s geocache. Most people were just passing through or stopping in to visit someone that they knew and geocached this traditional cache.