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Star publisher awarded by college

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Turtle-Mountain Star editor Jason Nordmark, publisher of eight North Dakota newspapers, was honored with an alumni award at Minnesota State University Moorhead during its Homecoming celebration Sept. 18-26.

Receiving Distinguished Alumni Awards: John Richman, president of North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS); Sal Haider, president of Haider Development Corporation; Nordmark, a North Dakota newspaper publisher; and Cynthia and Gary Nolte.

Receiving the Outstanding Young Alumni Award: Kerstin Kealy Esterby, a WDAY television news anchor and producer.

Receiving the Eva Vraspir Excellence in Nursing Award: Larry Dahlen, associate professor at Mount Mary College, Sioux Falls, SD.

The seven were recognized at an awards banquet Friday, Sept. 25 at the Heritage Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead.

Nordmark, a Rolla, native, is a 1993 MSUM mass communications (print journalism) graduate. He received the College of Business and Industry Alumnus of the Year award. Nordmark began his journalism career at the Watertown (S.D.) Public Opinion arid later moved to Mason City, Iowa, to work for the Mason

City Globe-Gazette. He purchased his hometown newspaper in 1997, the Turtle Mountain Star in Rolla.

In 2005, they purchased six additional North Dakota community newspapers in Ellendale, Oakes, Park River, Towner, Medora and Beach, and also started the Lake Metigoshe Mirror, a community newspaper serving Lake Metigoshe and Bottineau County. He and his wife, Audrey, also are partners in the North Central Printing in Rugby, N.D. They have three daughters. Nordmark served as president of the North Dakota Newspaper Association in 2008.



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