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The first sod was turned for construction of the new Dahl Memorial Healthcare facility last Friday. Carter County Commissioner Steve Rosencranz, Dahl CEO Ryan Tooke and Dahl provider Dale Diede spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony. A $15.1 million dollar bond to build the new facility on the old Ekalaka Elementary School site passed during the General Election last November. The new hospital will include long-term care, patient rooms, a main nurses' station, a laboratory,...
Kathryn Wright officially assumed her superintendent duties at Ekalaka Public Schools on July 9. The Rapid, City South Dakota native first visited the area eleven years ago and “fell in love” with Ekalaka’s skies. Wright completed undergraduate studies in elementary education at Black Hills State University. She then attended the University of South Dakota and obtained a graduate degree in educational leadership to be a K-12 principal. After three years teaching sixth grade on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Wright spent four...
The Southeast Electric Essay Scholarship is a $1,000.00 scholarship sponsored by Southeast Electric Cooperative, Inc. This year's recipient is Coven Kautzman. Kautzman was asked if she had unlimited funding what community service project would she start? She would love to start a summer school program for elementary students. She has done her research and is more than ready. She has a list of supplies needed, why the program is needed and the benefits that it holds for...
The Carter County Conservation District along with NRCS, FSA and the county weed department hosted a fun and educational day at Ekalaka Elementary on May 20. Topics ranged from soil heath to trees, pollinators, water, wildlife, noxious weeds and farming. The district sent each child home with a Colorado Blue Spruce....
Third and fourth quarter Positive Upstanding Polite Students (PUPS) awards were given to deserving students on Tuesday at Ekalaka Elementary. In addition to PUPS awards, students received honors for reading, music, physical education and perfect attendance. Kindergartners and sixth graders were also honored at the ceremony....
Carter County residents are reminded to support the local community by purchasing and spending Carter County Chamber of Commerce chamber bucks. Chamber bucks are a great way to support buying locally and supporting local businesses here in Ekalaka and Carter County. Each dollar spent stays in the local community. Chamber Bucks are purchased in $10 increments and can be used at any participating Carter County Chamber of Commerce business (participating businesses are located...
Preschool teacher Ami Nies (left) spent some time with her students at Ekalaka Public Schools last week to help them prepare for their upcoming kindergarten year. Marissa Frye (right) was recently hired and will be the children's teacher next year as they enter Ekalaka Elementary....
The CCHS FCCLA program held their annual Easter Egg Hunt last Sunday at Cayden's Park in Ekalaka. Youngsters had a chance to get there picture taken with the Easter Bunny before searching for not-so-easy-to-find colored eggs scattered throughout the fairgrounds. Although the day was overcast, it seemed most of the kids who attended had a great time and left with a bountiful basket of candy. After the hunt, families gathered at Ekalaka Elementary for a family style carnival...
Shirley Laureen (Rene) Frye LaBree passed away on March 8, 2019 at Holy Rosary Hospital in Miles City, Montana, after a hard-fought battle with cancer. Rene was born in Baker, MT, on January 12, 1947, the second child of Glen Edward Frye and Ethel Marie Arnold Frye. She joined an older brother Richard Alan born June 14, 1945. At an early age the family moved to Canby, California. Glen and his brother Bert went to work in the logging industry to earn money, so that Glen could...
Fifth and sixth grade music students from Ekalaka Elementary took part in a pre-festival on Tuesday night in front of a large, local audience. The students will travel to Plevna on Monday, March 18 to perform selected solo, small ensemble and large ensemble works at a middle school music festival....
Montana State FCCLA is quickly approaching. It will be held in Bozeman on March 21 and 22. Multiple local FCCLA members are working hard to complete their STAR events. Wyatt Kittelmann and Tori Tooke are competing in a chapter service project about the Winter Wonderland Carnival that was held at Ekalaka Elementary in December. Kari Kittelmann, Whitney Kittelmann and Tylee Loading are competing with an illustrated talk about breast cancer awareness. Lucy Branson and Emily O’Connell are competing in Promoting and Publicizing F...
A Montana Rotary goal is to place a dictionary in the hand of every third grade student in Montana. Recently, they got closer to accomplishing that goal by giving one to each third grader at Ekalaka Elementary. This is the ninth consecutive year that District 5390 has sponsored this project. The members of the Rotary Clubs of Glendive, Malta and Miles City are participating again this year in the distribution of dictionaries, by giving a dictionary to every third grade student...
This article is about another neighbor, Bonnie Peabody, who also lived across the street and up the hill from us. I would like to share some information about Bonnie, but first I need to go back a generation on the Peabody family. Charles and Mary Peabody Charles was born in Vermont and moved to Iowa where he met his future wife, Mary Hite. They were married on July 4, 1879. In the summer of 1884 they moved to Rapid City, South Dakota coming overland in a covered wagon, drawn by four horses, trailing their cows and milking...
First and second quarter Positive Upstanding Polite Students (PUPS) awards were given to deserving students on January 25 at Ekalaka Elementary. Winners of the awards for grades K-6 are pictured above. In addition to PUPS awards, students received honors for reading, music, honor rolls and perfect attendance....
The spelling bee for Carter County students in grades 5-8 will take place inside the Ekalaka Elementary gymnasium on Monday, February 11 at 1:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend....
Area residents might recognize Ekalaka Elementary third grader Cordelia Cofer because there is a good chance she has sold them delicious Girl Scout cookies, probably more than once. Cordelia is a Juliette Girl Scout. Juliette scouts are registered girl members in grades K-12 who are not affiliated with a troop and complete Girl Scout activities with the guidance of an adult mentor. Since there is not a Girl Scout troop in the area, this fits her needs and interests very well....
Cloverbuds is a 4-H program for youth between the ages of five and seven that allows them to explore 4-H prior to being eligible to become a full-fledged 4-H member. This year in Cloverbuds, kids will focus on a different country every month. They will learn about the country's culture, create snacks that are unique to the country, keep records in a passport book, make crafts and most importantly, have fun. Carter County Cloverbuds will be held on the first and third Tuesday o...
On Tuesday, December 18 at 6 p.m., local students will perform at a Christmas concert in the grade school gymnasium. Community members are invited to attend the free hour-long event that will showcase all CCHS and Ekalaka Elementary music ensembles. Ekalaka Public Schools students are under the direction of Mr. Andrew Del Raso....
Demolition started this week on the old Ekalaka Elementary. Above, the 1952 addition is torn down while the original 1942 structure still stands. Current plans are for bids to go out in April of 2019 for the new hospital that will be built on the site....
In the Fall of 2017, the superintendent of Ekalaka Public Schools asked for an energy audit of the new elementary building and the high school. Chad Reisenauer from Basin Electric traveled to Ekalaka and was glad to see LED lighting in the new building. While at the school, he noticed that the gym lights had been changed to LED. Reisenauer had suggested this during a previous audit and was happy to see that it had been done. Reisenauer also suggested the school research...
Over 75 members attended the Dahl Memorial Healthcare Annual Member Meeting last Thursday at Carter County Events Center. Around 90 attended in 2017 while only 45 turned out in 2016. The meeting began with members voting on and approving changes to multiple association bylaws. After the vote, CEO Ryan Tooke discussed the most up-to-date plan for the building project. This will be presented to the public in the form of a bond election and will be on the General Election ballot...
In January, the Eagle reported that the most recent plan for a new hospital was to build on the old Elementary school site. Recently, county commissioners passed bond language. It will be presented to the public in the form of a bond election in the General Election held this November. The bond amount has been set at $15,110,000.00, and would be used for "the purpose of paying the costs of designing, constructing, equipping, and furnishing on property located at the corner of...
The Ekalaka Public Schools Board of Trustees approved the FY 2019 Budgets for both the Carter County High School and the Ekalaka Elementary School. Mills went from 22.75 in the FY 2018 Elementary District budget to 21.59 in FY 2019 budget. In the High School District mills dropped from 12.80 for FY 2018 to 12.17 in FY 2019. Mill values are based upon taxable valuation. We are blessed in every sense of the word in Carter County in having a high taxable evaluation; more so in the CCHS District at $52,244,099, compared to that...
The Bald Mountain Rounders will be performing on Friday, August 10 at Ekalaka Elementary, beginning at 7:30 p.m. This free Days of '85 concert is put on by the Carter County Fair Board and is open to the public. The Bald Mountain Rounders are a Bluegrass band offering audiences many pleasant surprises. From the up-tempo contemporary arrangements of bassist Kassy Brooks to the down home humor of Robin Smith playing mandolin, with Wallace Selby on the fiddle, the traditional...
After a year long battle with cancer, Jona was called home by her Heavenly Father on Friday, July 20, 2018, surrounded by friends and family. She was born on June 6, 1967 to Harold LaBree and Linda (Hanley-LaBree) Newman in Ekalaka, MT. On December 28, 1968, her father, Harold passed away. In December, 1971, Linda married Dean Newman of Ingomar, MT and Jona gained a stepfather. Jona (4 ½) stood watch over the blessed event...she can be observed smiling from ear to ear,...
