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The 43rd Annual Juried Exhibit Traveling Collection will be at Ekalaka Public Library over the Carter County Days of ‘85 Fair and Rodeo. The traveling exhibition this year features a wide variety of mediums photography, digital painting, oil, acrylic, watercolor, soft pastel, porcelain and mixed media. The artists worked on portraying dreams. Some dream in color, some in black and white. The artists displayed exceptional diversity of style, characteristics and perspectives in this year’s exhibition. The artists in this yea...
Ekalaka Public Library is once again offering a summer reading program. All children ages three and up are invited to attend. Two different age groups will meet each day beginning Tuesday, July 26th, and ending Friday, July 29th. Potty trained children ages three to six will meet from 11 a.m. to noon and children 7 and up will meet from 1 to 2 p.m. The program will conclude with a pizza party at the end of the final day. Parents who are interested in having their child attend should contact Pat Kalstrom at the library,...
5-31-2022 The Board of Carter County Commissioners met in regular session on, May 31, 2022, in the Carter County Commission Board Meeting Room of the Carter County Courthouse at 214 Park Street in Ekalaka, Montana. Present were Steve Rosencranz, Chairman; and Rod Tauck, Vice Chair. Mike Watkins, Member was absent. There was no public comment. The commission approved payroll in the amount of $237,266.46 and claims in the amount of $246,790.00. Clerk and Recorder Pam Castleberry joined the meeting where she updated the...
Countywide voter turnout for the primary election on Tuesday was nearly sixty-three percent, down from 73 percent in 2020. In total, 579 ballots were cast from the county's 922 registered voters. Precinct 14 (Rural Ekalaka) had the best voter turnout at 67 percent, Precinct 3 (Hammond) had a 66 percent turnout, Precinct 13 (Ekalaka) had a 59 percent turnout and Precinct 1 (Alzada) had the lowest turnout at 55 percent. Carter County residents voted in favor of the Dahl...
Some days are long and for some reason I have been thinking of past businesses, their location and owners. Let’s begin with the old post office building where I started to work on April 1, 1950 under Postmaster E.E. Sykes. The north side of the building was occupied as a Western store and operated by Albert and Roberta Phelps, later by Claire Whitney. The post office was transferred to the north side later and a grocery store owned by Clarence and Ina Crystal was located in the old post office side. Today, the senior c...
A couple from Gillette is trying to collect 25,000 used pairs of shoes by the end of August. Once that goal is met, Shoes With Heart, a Florida-based organization, will pick them up in exchange for $10,000 to go toward adopting the couple’s first child. Mikelle and Josh Schmit have tried just short of everything when it comes to fundraising for their upcoming adoption, which could cost in the neighborhood of $50,000. The Schmits’ garage has became a shoe warehouse in the process. So far, they have around 17,000 pairs of sho...
Ever dreamt of flying? Or played the game of picking a superpower? Invisibility or flight? What if one could have both? That's the unexpected discovery of the main character in the "Divisible Man" novels. A pilot awakes after a midair collision and crash to discover he can vanish and when he does, he is immune to gravity. Last Tuesday evening Howard Seaborne, the author of the "Divisible Man" novels, visited the Ekalaka Public Library and gave a talk about the books, about pub...
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books, free of charge, to children from birth to age five, through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Republic of Ireland. Dolly's goal is to put books into the hands and hearts of children across the world. Inspired by her father's inability to read and write, Dolly started her Imagination Library in...
Following is just a few of the new books Ekalaka Public Library has recently received. “American Princess” by Stephanie Thornton: Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to stand out in Washington is to make waves—oceans of them. With the canny sophistication of the savviest politician on the Hill, Alice uses her celebrity to her advantage, testi...
The 2020 Traveling Collection of Juried Art, a collection of juried art from Montana and around the USA, will be at Ekalaka Public Library from July 29 until August 14. The Waterworks Art Museum of Miles City is sharing this collection throughout Southeastern Montana. The gallery is free to the public and open from 12 p.m. until 6 p.m. ,Tuesday through Friday, and again on Saturday, August 8 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. All ages are welcome....
Due to the unforeseen circumstances of COVID-19, Ekalaka Public Library will not be hosting a regular summer reading program. The library is still encouraging children to read and challenge themselves over the summer by offering rewards for students who read a certain amount of minutes each week. Top reader awards for different age groups will also be given. The program will start on June 22 and end on July 31. All interested parents and children should stop at the library, or call 775-6336 or 975-6557 for more...
Countywide voter turnout for the primary election was much higher than it was in 2018 as seventy-three percent of the county’s 885 registered voters returned mail ballots by 8 p.m. on Tuesday. Precinct 13 (Ekalaka) and Precinct 14 (Rural Ekalaka) each had 73 percent voter turnout while Precinct 1 (Alzada) and Precinct 3 (Hammond) had 71 percent. In total, 650 ballots were returned. In the 2018 primaries, the county had only a 53 percent turnout. Carter County residents voted in favor of the Dahl Memorial Special Mill Levy w...
Carter County Election Administrator Pam Castleberry said this week that ballots for Montana's primary election will be mailed to Carter County voters on Friday, May 8. Locally, there are only two filings for the primaries. Republican incumbent Tracey D. Walker filed for Clerk of District Court/Superintendent of Schools and Republican incumbent Rod Tauck has filed for reelection to the county commission. Registered voters within the county will also be voting on the Dahl...
This spring, Carter County Museum will host a series of Earth and space activities for local children. First, a story hour at Ekalaka Public Library featuring age appropriate activities for kids will take place on two different Thursdays between March and May. The museum will also have board game based activities during International Dark Sky Week, April 20-24, during regular hours and a full lineup of pop up experiments during the Junior Scientist Summer Program (dates...
Cecile Smith-Kuehn opened Broken Arrow Boutique, offering casual, casual business and athletic wear to women of all ages in a quaint setting on Main Street in Ekalaka back in October of 2018. The 2007 CCHS graduate said that one main reason she opened the boutique was to help breath some life back into Main Street. "It's sad to see the empty buildings," she said. "I want this to be good for the community." Though her shop might be small, it has made a positive impact in its...
HELENA – The Montana Historical Society's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is announcing $350,000 in Revitalizing Montana's Rural Heritage (RMRH) grant program funding to support the preservation of historic buildings in rural communities across the state. This brick-and-mortar grant comes from the National Park Service's (NPS) Historic Revitalization Subgrant Program (HRSP), funded by that agency's Historic Preservation Fund. SHPO is among nine entities nationwide t...
Mid-Rivers Communications is proud announce the recipients of the 2019 Fund for Education Grants. These grants are awarded to accredited educational facilities and non-profit entities with an educational mission from the Mid-Rivers service area. Montana law requires that the cooperative’s Fund for Education be used for educational purposes. Grants were awarded to 14 applicants totaling $50,000: • $5,000 to the Miles Community College Adult Learn Center to purchase laptops with webcams for virtual tutoring and classroom lea...
The Carter County Community Foundation (CCCF) recently announced this year's grant recipients. The ambulance fund at Dahl Memorial Healthcare received $3,800 to help purchase a basket stretcher for rough country rescues. The grant will also partially fund a power load for aiding EMTs getting patients into and out of the ambulances. Carter County Geological Society received $2,900 for summer youth programming. The 2020 Junior Scientists Program will focus on earth sciences,...
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...
Ekalaka Public Library is once again offering a summer reading program. All children ages three and up are invited to attend. This year’s theme is all about space. Two different age groups will meet on Tuesdays, starting June 18, and continuing on June 25, July 2 and July 9. Children ages three through seven will meet from 2 to 3 p.m. and children 8 and up will meet from 3 to 4 p.m. All preschool age children must be potty trained. Stories will be read, crafts will be made and snacks will be eaten. Parents who are i...
Ekalaka Public Library has received several new books recently. Some of these are: "The Cornwalls Are Gone" by James Patterson, "That Churchill Woman" by Stephanie Barron, "The Forest Lover" by Susan Vreeland, "House of Thieves" by Charles Belfoure, and "The 18th Abduction" by James Patterson. The library is receiving lots of books from community members and Mr. Ed Solace. Solace lives near Kalispell. Last week he brought the library several boxes of books. Along with the new...
Attorney Jennifer Williams has volunteered her time to present three talks, that are free and open to the public, at Ekalaka Public Library on legal issues. Each of these talks will start with roughly a half hour of Williams presenting through a camera and will be followed by a question and answer session. The first talk focusing on health directives will take place on Tuesday, May 21 at 6:30 p.m. The second talk is all about wills and will take place on Tuesday, June 18 at 6:30 p.m. The final talk on Tuesday, July 16 at 6:30...
Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service released the draft revised land management plan and draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Custer Gallatin National Forest for public review and comment. The revised plan has the potential to add as many as 400 new jobs to the region and as much as $20 million in additional labor income. The plan will also support work with state partners, Tribes, communities and stakeholders in setting priorities for...
Mrs. Amy Walker’s CCHS Child Development Class will be starting Story Hour on September 6. Story Hour will be held every Thursday at Ekalaka Public Library, beginning at 10:15 a.m. Children ages 3-5 who are potty trained are welcome to attend!...
During the Thursday, June 21 Reading Rocks summer session, kids entered as readers and left as marchers. Valerie O'Connell read "Little Pig Joins the Band" to the six young musicians. "Little Pig Joins the Band" is about Jacob, a pig trying to join a marching band. He attempts drums, tubas, trumpets and trombones but cannot play any because he is too small. The kids thought about times when they were to small to do things like watch PG-13 movies, sort cows, drive a car and dri...
