{"id":122253,"date":"2026-03-26T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/03\/26\/oelkers-selected-ceo-for-tongue-river-electric\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:05:49","modified_gmt":"2028-09-11T05:05:49","slug":"oelkers-selected-ceo-for-tongue-river-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/03\/26\/oelkers-selected-ceo-for-tongue-river-electric\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Oelkers Selected CEO For Tongue River Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tongue River Electric Cooperative  introduces Nick Oelkers as chief executive officer and general manager effective April 22.<br \/>\n\t  Oelkers assumes the position  following the retirement of the cooperative\u2019s long-time CEO Tary Hanson.<br \/>\n\t  After an intense and competitive  hiring process, the TRECO board of directors selected Oelkers at its February  meeting. The Culbertson native brings a bachelor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122439,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122253\/revisions\/122439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122253"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=122253"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=122253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}