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The Bulldogs played the Panthers on a humid football evening in Park City last Friday. The game was initially scheduled to be a home game at Rowley Field, but due to a ref shortage, it was moved to Park City. The only refs available for the contest were out of Billings. The Bulldogs didn't look good early. After a poor showing in a big loss the prior week in Wibaux, it initially looked like it was going to be more of the same for Blue. The 'Dogs had several false starts on...
We scored a big win for Montanans’ privacy and against invasive surveillance technology during this year’s legislative session. My Senate Bill 397 severely restricts government’s use of facial recognition technology and is now law in the Last Best Place. Legislators conducted a study of facial recognition between the 2021 and 2023 legislative sessions. We learned how state government was beginning to deploy the technology and even discovered that at least one school distr...
September 4, 2023 It has been an unusually hot week for the beginning of September. The kids have already had two weeks of school in this terrible heat. Dick and Erma Albert were so glad to have their daughter, Heather, visiting on Monday. She went to Spearfish with them for their doctor’s appointment. After a week’s visit, Heather and her husband headed home on Tuesday. Erma had a chiropractor’s appointment in Buffalo on Wednesday. Then she went to physical therapy on Thursday. On Friday, they went to Senior Citiz...
8-24-2023 The Board of Carter County Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, August, 24, 2023 in the Carter County Commission Board meeting room of Carter County Courthouse at 214 Park Street in Ekalaka, Montana. Rod Tauck, Chairman, and Pamela J. Castleberry, Member, was present. Mike Watkins, Vice-Chair, was absent. The meeting was called to order at 9 a.m. There was no public comment. Road and Bridge Supervisor Carl Knapp joined the meeting to request permission to hire Road Crew employee. The commission reviewed...
Hello God, it’s me, Mara: You know Lord, looking back to a time in our life, to someone who encouraged and helped us along our way, Lord, You may be calling us to DO the same for someone in our life who might need a bit of help, cheer or even some praise right now. K.A., a former neighbor shared how her special three sisters encouraged each other, no matter that they didn’t live near each other. It’s been a long while ago, but thinking about them, one of them became a teacher, one became a Dr., one was a devoted mother and w...
Social media is changing our lives, and it just might have the power to change the course of history. Everything we do now is chronicled on social media. World leaders are offended by each other’s tweets. Perhaps Twitter and Facebook won’t alter the course of history, but I cannot help but think they would have changed the perception of historic events if they had existed back in the day. Let me hypothesize a few historical examples to prove my point. #1. Christoper Columbus posting on October 12, 1492: “Yo, ho, ho, Isabe...
Walter "Holly" Kortum, 80, of Belt, Montana, passed away peacefully at his home on Friday, August 25, 2023. Holly was the third born child of nine to Bud and Edith Kortum in Ekalaka, Montana on December 7, 1942. After serving in the United States Army from January of 1964 – December of 1965, Holly married Betty Grosskopf on January 13, 1968. Together, they worked on cattle ranches, wheat farms, and guided hunters through the Alaskan and the Bob Marshall Wilderness in M...
Alvin Lloyd Walker was born in Belle Fourche, SD, May 7, 1934, the first born of William K. Walker and Eunice I. Clem Walker. Alvin was taken home to the Finger Buttes Ranch north of Alzada, Montana, where he spent his youth and young adulthood. Alvin passed away in Phoenix, AZ on August 24, 2023 with loved ones by his side. Alvin attended the Finger Buttes grade school in Carter County Montana for all eight grades, riding back and forth most of the time. He attended High...
Gov. Greg Gianforte is asking a Lewis and Clark County district court judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging his veto of Senate Bill 442, major bipartisan legislation from the 2023 session that reallocated marijuana tax revenue to conservation and county road projects. In a recent court filing, attorneys for the governor argued that the question at the heart of the litigation - whether Gianforte vetoed the bill in a way that prevented an override by the Legislature on the...
Ekalaka Public Schools Daycare has limited childcare spots available for the community. To apply for a full-time, part-time or drop care spot, please stop in the main office at the school Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for an application. They are also available on the school’s website. Applications are due no later than September 22. For questions, please call 406-630-1521....
Local Dell Dague celebrated his 90th birthday on August 29th. Left, he is pictured with a cake baked and decorated by Joe Breding. Dague didn't have too much of a chance to celebrate the occasion, but Breding happened to stop by his house in between hauling loads of hay. He's still trucking at 90!...
The veterans memorial at Perso Park in Ekalaka received a boost last week with a $1,000 donation from Summit National Bank. A portion of the project was completed over the summer, but two walls that will bear the names of area veterans who have valiantly served their country have not yet been started as the project still needs more funding. To make a donation towards Carter County Veterans Park, send a check to the Carter County Community Foundation, a 501 3C organization at...
Two local men have changed their pleas in an assault case in Sixteenth Judicial District Court and a sentencing hearing has been scheduled for later this year in the matter. Tucker Tooke and Sylvan Tooke both admitted to multiple charges against them in August. According to court records, Tucker changed his plea on Aug. 8, admitting to one count surreptitious visual observation or recordation in a place of residence, a misdemeanor; one count sexual abuse of children, a...
Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Gillette News Record and has been republished with permission. The young man in the article, Adam Wood, is a descendant of the Hutton family and has ties to the Ekalaka area. Beth Jackson has been driving through Gillette since the 1970s. A resident of Brunswick, Georgia, she and her husband of 54 years, Vernon, have made the drive from Georgia to Ekalaka every year they've been married. Just by passing through each...
