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Carter County Museum is seeking information on the photo shown at left. The ball players are believed to be Carter County residents, but nothing else is known at this time. Any information on the year or individuals in the image can be sent to ccmuseum@midrivers.com, or to Carter County Museum, PO Box 445, Ekalaka, MT 59324....
For the third time in as many seasons, the CCHS Lady Bulldogs are headed to the Montana State Class C Girls Basketball Tournament. Last year, the girls lost to eventual state champion Box Elder in the first round, defeated Charlo in a Friday loser-out contest, and lost on Saturday morning to the Scobey Spartans. The Spartans went on to win the consolation game on Saturday night over Savage. In 2018, CCHS lost to Plentywood and Ennis. This year they will play the number two...
Last weekend, the CCHS Lady Bulldogs defeated Melstone in the Southern C Championship game, 61-58. The win marked a milestone for the program as the Lady Bulldogs have now won the Southern C Basketball Tournament for three straight years. A large crowd of Bulldog fans gathered on Main Street and cheered on the girls as they departed for the state tournament on Tuesday evening. Sheriff Neil Kittelmann led the way for the team's bus as it left town, followed by multiple EMS and...
Joe and Marj Schallenberger Joe continues his Shifting Scenes article with the statement: “in 1933 Mother passed away and with Floyd and Mildred married and Clyde working outside, he, his dad, and Etola stayed on the ranch.” Hard, tough years: “1934 caught us out of feed both in the stack and on the ground and we along with the majority were forced to sell our stock to the Government. Good cows brought $20.00 each and the poorer ones $16.00. They had to be delivered to the railroad at Marmarth, North Dakota — about seventy...
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts." It can be discouraging to see Washington DC sewer-style politics creep into Montana elections. Here we are, still eight months from November, and already there are fake news outlets in eastern Montana spreading outright falsehoods about bills in the 2019 legislative session. Recently, one of these swampy websites accused me of voting for taxpayer funded abortions. That's so outlandish, I at first...
On February 28, a retirement party for Robin Markuson, County Executive Director at the USDA Farm Service Agency, was held at Carter County Events Center. Markuson started with the FSA in 1984 as a temporary employee, then became a full time program technician, spent 17 years as a loan officer and has spent the last five and a half years as the executive director. The party featured a sit down dinner served by Carter County High School FCCLA members, cake and refreshments. It...
Late last year, Gary "Tyke" Harkins, far right, attended an Honor Flight in Washington D.C. with other veterans from the Bakersfield, California area. Mr. Harkins was an E-6 in the Army during the Vietnam War. He entered his service in Ekalaka and served from October 1967 to September 1973. Harkins took basic training at Ft. Ord. He served as a forward observer for artillery targets with the 41st Artillery, which was attached to the 173rd Airborne. He was stationed in Vietnam...
Hello God, it’s me, Mara: A while back we had the privilege to read a grade school kid’s speech on STAYING ACTIVE/FIT. That brought back some childhood memories. As a farm/ranch kid, whoever thought about anorexia or obesity? We didn’t have time for that and we certainly never heard of all the electronics that folks have at their fingertips today. Most of those items weren’t even invented, way back then. We had chores to do outside in the fresh air – all four seasons: winter COLD, summer HEAT and delightful days of spring an...
When our son was in junior high, his English teacher asked the students to write about someone they admired. Any mother would be flattered to think her adolescent son admired her. She might not be so flattered by the title of his essay. In bold print it read, “She Just Sits on Her Butt.” In a humorous way he was telling people about his mother who used a wheelchair. The reason I have spent over half a year now in a hospital is trying to heal those pressure sores that resulted from a bony bottom in a wheelchair. Instead of...
A little over a year ago, a brilliant lawyer helped secure the future of our family ranch. Raphael Graybill, in his role as chief legal counsel for the governor, went to battle for private property rights and public access in front of the Montana Supreme Court when he challenged the Attorney General’s interpretation of the law regarding Habitat Montana easements. If he had lost against the AG’s flawed legal opinion, we could have lost our ranch. Raph utilized his incredible intellect and deep understanding of the law to show...
My County School Superintendent's office is in the Sweet Grass County Annex, which used to be the old county hospital and medical clinic. Many of my colleagues are sure the Annex is haunted, but in all my years there, I have never seen a ghost. However, recently I did have two disconcerting experiences with my garbage can that have me wondering about the possibility of paranormal activity. My garbage can sits right beside my desk, but one day a few weeks back, I returned from the copy room to find my garbage can sitting right...
Editor's note: Following is the fourth and final article in our series about the top ten greatest Carter County athletes of all time, as voted on by our readers. 1) Robert "Bob" Lasater 2) B.J. Padden 3) Ivan Teigen 4) Karen (Markuson) Kreitel 5) TIE - John Ward 5) TIE - Pat Hansen 7) Jesse Barnes 8) Christian "Chris" Bentz 9) Helen (Frye) Blutt: Helen Blutt graduated from Carter County High School in 1939. During her time at CCHS, she was a member of 'C' Club for two years...
Carter County Museum (CCM) was recently awarded a $38,000 grant from the Montana Department of Commerce through the Eastern Montana Tourism Initiative Grant Program. The funding will be used to construct a planetarium dome on museum grounds in hopes of attracting more visitors. In the spring and summer of 2019, the Carter County Museum brought a portable planetarium to eleven communities and over 2,500 students throughout the state of Montana. Part of the StarLab Rural Outreach Program by Carter County Museum and Museum of...
The Montana Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI) is accepting applications for mini-grants and demonstration projects. Demonstration project applications are due April 15, 2020. The mini-grants will provide funding for educational events throughout the year and support partners and organizations with an interest in the conservation, education, and awareness of grazing lands and natural resources in Montana. Mini-grant funding requests are limited to a minimum of $50 and a maximum of $1,000. There is no application dea...
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 7 honored its dedicated corps of volunteer instructors during its annual Spring Hunter/Bowhunter Education Workshop in Miles City on Feb. 22. About 50 instructors and FWP staff gathered at Miles Community College for a day of program updates, socializing and service awards. There are about 100 instructors in communities throughout Region 7, and roughly half of the instructors attended the workshop. These volunteers donate many hours of...
Last week, U.S. Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) introduced legislation to extend the Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) until August 2024, a program in ten facilities across Montana, Nevada and North Dakota that develops and tests health care delivery and reimbursement models for Critical Access Hospitals in hyper-rural counties. The project began in August 2016, and expired in July 2019. Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association in Ekalaka, McCone County Health Center in Circle and...
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 7 took the opportunity in February to recognize the important contribution that area landowners make through their participation in the Block Management Program. FWP hosted appreciation dinners in Miles City on Feb. 25 and in Glendive Feb. 27. Invitations were extended to more than 300 landowners and their families. In Miles City, 178 people attended, and 101 came in Glendive. “We had two more nice evenings of getting folks together, having great meals and enjoying conversation,” sai...
Funeral Service for Jessie Fost, 94, of Willard, MT, were held March 9 at Stevenson Funeral Home, Baker, Mont. Burial will take place at a later date at the Willard Cemetery. Jessie passed away Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at her home near Willard. Jessie Mae Bucklin was born December 2nd, 1925 in Baker, MT, the daughter of Calvin and Adah (Jones) Bucklin. She was raised in the Calumet-Lame Jones area, attending Milk Creek Country School and graduating from Plevna High School in 194...
Last week, the Montana Department of Commerce announced that five Montana communities were recently accepted to become affiliate members of the Montana Main Street Program. According to the department, the program helps Montana communities strengthen and preserve historic downtown commercial districts by supporting economic development, urban revitalization and historic preservation through long-range planning, organization, design and promotion. “The Department of Commerce is dedicated to supporting communities in their e...
Through generous donations and awards of various grants, Dahl Memorial has been able to secure funding to cover some of the expenses for updated hospital equipment and construction costs for the new healthcare facility being built in Carter County. ONEOK and the USDA have donated considerable amounts to help update equipment at Dahl Memorial. ONEOK contributed $80,000 to purchase twelve new hospital beds while the USDA gave $65,000 to help fund the upgrade of a new electronic health records system. Dahl staff have also...
Ekalaka residents welcomed balmy weather on Saturday, March 7. Temperatures were warm enough, in fact, to break an all-time record for Ekalaka. The 68 degree high on March 7 turned out to be a record for that day, overtaking a 65 degree high in 1987. The average high for the same day is 37 degrees, according to National Weather Service records....
