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The Powder River / Carter County Farm Bureau presented the ABC Farm Safety program to Ekalaka Elementary second and fifth graders on April 13th at the school. A wide range of topics were covered including ATV and farm equipment safety, being careful around animals, not playing in grain bins and even using milk jugs as a life-saving device when someone is drowning! Students had the opportunity to see how fast a PTO turns, watch a toy man get buried in grain and got to feel a...
Ekalaka Public Schools will hold a kindergarten registration screening on April 7 from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Ekalaka Elementary gymnasium. Appointments are required. Call 406-630-1523 to make one. Parents are asked to bring their child’s birth certificate and immunization records to the scheduled appointment. Children must be five years of age on or before September 10, 2022 to be able to register....
Born from aspirations to bring the timeless tales of William Shakespeare directly to rural and under-served communities, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks has been enriching the lives of people in Montana and beyond for 50 seasons. Created in 2008, Montana Shakes! is the only Shakespearean elementary school theater program designed for rural communities. Sixty tour stops stretch across Montana and Wyoming, reaching over 11,000 students each spring. Last week, Montana Shakes!...
Ekalaka Elementary students took the court in front of a full house during halftime of recent CCHS varsity basketball contests. Left, Kaden Loudermilk looks to make a pass. Below, Corrik Laughery prepares to make a move on defender Tiernan O'Connor....
Readers of the Eagle may have recently noticed an ad in the paper seeking local ranchers who are willing to donate beef to Ekalaka Public Schools for the lunch program. On December 20th, the first beef donation was dropped off at the school by Abbey Bruski of Beaver Creek Homegrown. Bruski started the program locally with the help of a processing company that does the same thing for several other area schools. She says she did it because she wanted the students in Ekalaka to...
Ekalaka Elementary first graders perform during Ekalaka Public Schools' Christmas Concert. Music students in grades K-12, under the direction of music teacher Whitney Hamblin, performed a number of holiday favorites at the concert held December 16th inside the CCHS gym....
Carter County High School and Ekalaka Elementary music departments will host a Christmas concert on Thursday, December 16th. The concert is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. inside the CCHS gym. Doors will open for the annual event at 6 p.m. The concert will feature both choral and band performances from all music students in grades kindergarten through twelfth. Students are under the direction of Ms. Whitney Hamblin....
Funeral services for Kathy "Kate" Frye, 68, of Ekalaka, will be 1 p.m. Friday, December 3, 2021 at Stevenson Funeral Home, Ekalaka with Tom Stieg officiating. Burial will follow at Beaverlodge Cemetery. Family will receive friends for Kate from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at Stevenson Funeral Home with a time of sharing taking place at 6 p.m. Kate passed away November 21, 2021 in Spearfish, SD with her family by her side. Kathy Faye Talkington Frye was born May 1...
A Veterans Day program took place at Carter County High School on November 11. Several local veterans were in attendance. Six were 'adopted' by different Ekalaka Public Schools classes. Each class made posters for their veterans based off of interviews with them. After the program their was a reception with pies, cookies and punch where students were able to speak more with the veterans....
Funeral service for Marjorie Peterson, 79, of Baker, were held November 15 at Stevenson Funeral Home in Baker, MT. The service was also live streamed at stevensonfuneralhome.com. Marjorie passed away October 24, 2021 at Fallon Medical Complex in Baker. Marjorie Jean was born November 13, 1941 in Sturgis, SD the daughter of Thomas 'Chip' and Regina (Gerber) Blair, one of three children. She returned home to Ekalaka where her family made their home until her late elementary...
Construction in front of Carter County High School and Ekalaka Elementary is completed and the various school offices have moved into their new locations. This week, traffic flow before and after school resumed as normal. In the morning, all students should enter through the doors that used to be the main entrance to the high school. All visitors and late students will need to enter either school through the main offices. After 8:10 a.m., all traffic will need to enter...
Carol (Peabody) Spencer is in her first year teaching in her hometown. The 2009 Carter County High School graduate said that her and her husband, Rusty, made the decision to move back to Ekalaka to be closer to her family ranch and because they wanted to be a part of the community. "Rusty loves Ekalaka too," she told the Eagle on Tuesday. After finishing high school, Spencer headed to Dawson Community College in Glendive to continue her education and compete in rodeo....
Concrete is being poured this week outside the new connecting wing at Ekalaka Public Schools. The project is now in its final stages. Aside from the exterior concrete, the new building still needs glass for one interior window as well as two exterior doors. School officials are hopeful that they can begin moving into the new offices that are a part of the connecting wing sometime in the next few weeks, pending the completion of the last items on the project's checklist. The...
Adam Miller spent a few grades during his elementary school years living in a small town of around 100 people, so he's experienced small town living before. When asked about his experience in Ekalaka so far, the new social studies teacher at Ekalaka Public Schools said that he "really likes the small-town feel of it." Aside from those few years in a small town, Miller spent most of his youth in Canton, South Dakota, a town of around 3,400 people close to the Iowa border....
Wesley Chapman passed away peacefully at home on August 17, 2021 at the age of 82 from complications of PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy). He was a resident of Ashland, Oregon for 51 years and a beloved professor in the art department at Southern Oregon University for 32 years. On May 8, 1939 Wes was born on his family's ranch near Ekalaka, Montana. He was the youngest of nine children born to ranchers Harry and Dora Chapman who homesteaded to Chalk Buttes in 1914 and...
Note: This year's theme for the Days of '85 parade on Sunday, August 15 is 'Hometown Heroes.' Parade organizers chose individuals from five different categories to represent all of the hometown heroes in Ekalaka. The following articles were submitted by the individuals themselves, or their family members. EDUCATION Representative: Lynn Williams I am honored to have been chosen as Carter County's Hometown Hero for Education. My first formal education was at the Tarter School...
Lyle Wallace Babb December 24, 1935 – July 2, 2021 A son, the first male child in the family for two generations, was born on December 24, 1935. He was named Lyle Wallace, born to Harry Babb and Elizabeth (Durm) Babb. Lyle was the only child born in the "house that Harry built" on the Tie Creek. Lyle was raised on the Durm/ Babb family farm/ranch. He attended elementary school on Tie Creek at Plainview, Montana and graduated from Carter County High School in Ekalaka, M...
Last week during a field day at Ekalaka Elementary, local Masonic Lodge 120 donated a Kindle E-reader to four lucky students who enjoy reading. The Kindles for Kids program, sponsored by the Montana Masonic Foundation, is in its fifth year at the local level. Winning names were drawn from a hat. Masons Jeff Venhaus and Pat Strickland were there to present the Kindles....
Kindergarten students were honored with a short graduation ceremony on Tuesday outside of Ekalaka Elementary....
Ekalaka Elementary students competed in various track and field events at the school on Tuesday....
Votes were tallied Tuesday night for the recent school election. Unofficial results show that Lynn Williams and Tye B. Williams have been elected to fill three-year terms as trustees for Ekalaka Elementary District #15 and High School District #3. Lynn Williams received 266 votes and Tye B. Williams received 186 votes. Both defeated incumbents Micheal Ashbrook and Cassidy Jesperson who received 184 votes and 121 votes, respectively. Voter turnout was at 63 percent as 405...
On April 29th, Ekalaka Elementary students celebrated Arbor Day with an afternoon full of presentations and programs. The day's events were put together by fourth grade teacher Johanna Tooke. Students spent time at seven different stations celebrating the holiday, and many of those stations were headed by local volunteers. Phil Cook, Wayne Yost, Lynn Williams, Jenn Hall, Zeb Wright and the Carter County Conservation District all spent time with the students. After the...
Ekalaka Elementary District #15 recently made an offer, which has been accepted, to buy a private property located at 228 Senator Street in Ekalaka. The property consists of Lots 4 & 5, Block 2 of the Cady Addition, next to Rowley Field. The school has not yet taken possession of the property. Discussion over the property began at school board meetings last fall, shortly after the school had a home moved onto land it already owned next to the property at 228 Senator Street....
Dear Editor, I wanted to take a minute and explain why I have decided to run for another term on the Ekalaka Public Schools School Board. Let me start by saying how thankful I am for the support and votes for the last nine years while I have been serving on the school board. To say it has been a learning and educational experience is a true understatement. The three terms I have served have brought about many changes and challenges: • Building the new elementary school building • Learning school finances and how monies are al...
In February of last year, Ekalaka Elementary District #15 was selected for a $750,000 grant. The money, awarded by the Montana Department of Commerce Community Development Division, was granted "for the construction of a connecting wing between the elementary and high school buildings to secure the entrance and playground security," according to a letter from the governor's office that notified the school. The project to connect the two schools officially began last Friday....
