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A funeral service for Donnie Harpster, 75, of Ekalaka, MT was held June 11, at Stevenson Funeral Home in Ekalaka with Pastor Scott Kiehn officiating. Visitation took place one hour prior to the service. Burial followed in Beaver Lodge Cemetery. Donnie passed away Sunday, June 3, 2018. Don Harpster was born July 3, 1942 in Ekalaka, at the Trabert birthing house, to Roscoe and Christina (Martens) Harpster. He joined an older brother Gary. He grew up on Beaver Flat on the Harpste...
Hello, I suppose you are getting tired of me writing about branding. You should be, because I seem to write about brandings fairly often. I guess it’s because they really show how a neighborhood comes together to work or play. The season is pretty well wrapped up now. A few of us have some late calves to brand, but most people are pretty well done. I should rephrase that. I don’t have late calves. To me, a calf is a calf. When we preg check cows, when the person checking asks what the cutoff date is to mark for late cal...
According to a MSU Extension Ag Alert, damaging numbers of black grass bugs were reported in range and pasture locations in Teton and Big Horn Counties. Black grass bugs were also reported in Fallon, Powder River and Prairie Counties. Black grass bugs are plant sap feeders that target many introduced range grasses, including crested wheatgrass, intermediate wheatgrass and orchardgrass. Black grass bugs are dark insects, often with buff-colored markings on the head and the body margin. They are less than a quarter inch long....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture encourages America’s farmers and ranchers to nominate candidates to lead, serve and represent their community on their local county committees. According to the USDA’s Farm Service Agency, Carter County Executive Director, Robin Markuson, FSA 1, will accept nominations for county committee members beginning Friday, June 15. Producers across the country are already serving on committees, playing a critical role in the day-to-day operations of FSA. They are making important decisions reg...
Carter County 4-H youth showcased their talents at the 2018 4-H All Events Day held June 4 at the Carter County Event Center. There were 10 4-H youth in the market lamb project this year, and the day began at 10 a.m. with Market Sheep weigh-in. There were eight lambs weighed and tagged in Ekalaka and eight lambs and one goat weighed in Alzada on May 31. After all the sheep were weighed in, a Market Quality workshop was held that encouraged creativity in determining the food...
New playground equipment will soon be arriving to Town Park. Joining the current equipment will be a dome covered, 5-foot high turret platform complete with rock climbing wall, slide and rainbow style ladder. Hanging from its green crossbar will be a regular and a baby swing as well as a spider swing, a suspended net that holds multiple kids. In addition, an airplane frame teeter-totter, painted blue, red and yellow, will pivot kids up and down. The $1,900 in equipment came in $600 below the town’s budget and will be ready f...
Southeast Electric Cooperative held an annual meeting last Friday at Carter County High School. One hundred and forty-seven members registered and members of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church served 231 people. Attendees ate a free roast beef dinner and received a pack of LED light bulbs. Several who attended were lucky enough to win a door prize, and two even received $500 cash grand prizes. Albert Paul gave the president’s report, Karen Kreitel gave the treasurer’s report and Jack Hamblin gave the manager’s report. As of De...
The Carter County Museum has so many fossils, they would spill out of the museum's back room like a cartoon character's stuffed closet if they were all stored on site. Approximately 80 percent of the museum's collection is held at its warehouse. When Nathan Carroll took over as curator of the museum, he found the warehouse full of bones laying on the ground. Since then, he has organized and built shelves to keep them off the floor. The Denver Museum recently donated archival...
Main Street was closed off in Ekalaka Saturday night as Carter County flashed its green, corned some holes and danced until closing time, all while raising $8,600 during the Nies benefit. Auctioneer Les Kreitel enthusiastically took bids with the help of Josh Rokke and Ches Meyer while Abbey Bruski displayed items that included a $250 gift certificate to Long Pines Vet, a railroad-spike cross and carved emu eggs. Children took advantage of the street closure and rode scooters...
The traffic-cone orange fire suit has room for two and the helmet makes my head a goldfish in a fishbowl. Five separate straps join in my lap, holding my upper body against the back of the seat while my legs are free to straddle the car's battery. "How fast do you want to go?" Casey Schladweiler asks. "I wanna go fast." The yellow stock car merges onto the dirt track, Schladweiler hits the gas and swings the car around the first turn, its rear-end proclaiming "LONG LIVE...
