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There's no better way to see the sights than on horseback or in a horse-drawn wagon. A nearby wagon and trail ride is taking place September 12-18. The South Dakota and Montana ride will start in the Camp Crook area along the Little Missouri. Some of the sights scheduled on the daily rides are Capitol Rock, the Short Pines area and the historic cabin hideout of outlaw Jack Kennedy. Breakfast and evening meals will be catered and evening entertainment is planned. It should be...
Approximately sixty-five concerned locals attended the Carter County Commissioner's meeting after the commission broke for lunch on Monday in Ekalaka. The individuals had questions for the commission regarding the recent notice of facility lease for the new Carter County Healthcare Facility and turned out in support of Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association. Scheduled on the commission's agenda at 1 p.m. was "RFP and operation of the new hospital facility by Dahl Memorial Health...
Schools across Montana are testing their drinking water for lead ahead of the Dec. 31, 2021 deadline outlined in the DPHHS Administrative Rules of Montana regarding matters of public health in schools. Dozens of school districts have already received their results and are in the process of remediating plumbing fixtures after testing in some locations showed elevated levels of lead. To ensure the water in Montana public schools is safe to drink, DPHHS requires all accredited K-12 schools to periodically sample all sinks and...
MontanaFair will be featuring something new this year-"Dig It Days!" "Dig It Days!" is an opportunity for kids to explore, climb on, "drive", take pictures and fantasize about every kind of dirt-moving heavy equipment imaginable. This year, the event will feature a truly monster truck used in mining that has nine-foot high tires! Some 20 backhoes and excavators will be available for kids (of any age) to operate under supervision of experienced operators. In the midst of it...
by Ryan Zinke, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior (2017-2019) and Montana’s Congressman (2015-2017) As I write this article, wildfires have once again covered much of Montana in a thick layer of unhealthy smoke. There are 25 active fires burning 250,000 acres from Hardin to Troy. Even if you don’t see the flames, the smoke and poor visibility is hard to ignore. Yet, ignoring the issue and letting politics get in the way of action is exactly the problem in Washington, DC. Last year, fires across the west burned a rec...
The chokecherries did pretty well this year despite the heat, drought, and smoke, so around our place that means the bears are coming down out of the Deer Creeks for a berry eating frenzy. I am always torn about mentioning bear visitors to our cabin guests, because I am afraid they will pack up and head out. I grew up on Sun Canyon Lodge, a guest ranch out of Augusta, Montana, where bears in the yard were almost daily events. Then a book and a movie entitled "Night of the Grizzlies" came out and effectively struck fear in...
Hello God, it’s me, Mara: You know, Lord, a while back, a friend shared about bearing a grudge against one of your children who was one of their friends, adding that hanging onto bitterness and keeping grudges alive is truly consuming work. She was exhausted and really didn’t know what to do, as bearing a grudge was/is hard work as it left little energy for blessing others, praising God, or even enjoying life. Then she read that the only way to get over a bitter heart toward others is to actively love and serve them in ways t...
My Grandma and Grandpa Coons had two other places with houses on them besides the home place. Grandpa was a hard working guy but he never got excited or hurried about anything. Grandma was just the opposite. She was shorter than five feet and less than one hundred pounds but she was made of high tensile steel. She was the one who finagled and was able to buy other places that made their original homestead into a creditable ranch. The Briggs’ place was one of these places. They bought it from someone named Briggs. The Briggs p...
A memorial service for Lois Lambert will take place on Friday, August 20, 10 a.m. at Stevenson Funeral Home in Ekalaka....
Graveside service for Beverly (Gundlach) Heckman at Beaver Lodge Cemetery will be August 14, 2021 at 11 a.m. Dane Castleberry will be giving the memorial. Following the graveside service, will be a luncheon and slideshow at St. Joan of Arc Parish Hall. All family, friends, and community members are welcome to attend the service and luncheon to share memories with our family....
The schoolhouse in Alzada is one of only a few one-room schoolhouses left in the country. Montana has more one-room schoolhouses than any other state in the U.S. During the 2013-2014 academic year, there were 200 operating throughout the country; 67 of those were in Montana. By comparison, there were about 212,000 across the country in 1913. The school was built in 1921 with the first classes being held in January of 1922. Originally there were two large classrooms. Sometime d...
Kitty Schmid, Clerk-Treasurer for the Town of Ekalaka, was recently appointed to the Montana League of Cities and Towns by the association's president, Rick Norby of Sidney. The Montana League of Cities and Towns is an incorporated, nonpartisan, nonprofit association of 127 Montana municipalities. Organized under a constitution originally adopted in 1931, the League has as its sole purpose the cooperative improvement of municipal government in Montana. It acts as a...
After spending nine months at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, local Dennis Bishop returned home last Thursday. Bishop, pictured above with his wife Trish, developed Guillain-Barré syndrome after contracting COVID-19 last October. He had been in Minneapolis since November 5th. Guillain-Barré syndrome is a serious autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks healthy nerve cells in the peripheral nervous system. Guillain-Barré is extremely rare, affecting only about...
