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A wet, heavy snowstorm that started on Tuesday brought some much needed moisture to the area but also created hazardous travel conditions. School in Ekalaka was canceled on Wednesday as a winter storm warning was scheduled to remain in effect until midnight and several inches of snow had already accumulated. Multiple power outages were reported as of Wednesday morning too, including areas around Capitol, Alzada, Ridge and north of Ekalaka. Update** According to the National...
Ellen Guyer of Ekalaka was recently awarded a Love of Learning Award worth $500 from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Guyer is one of 200 recipients to receive the award. Love of Learning Awards are designed to help fund post-baccalaureate professional development for active Phi Kappa Phi members including graduate or professional studies, doctoral dissertations, continuing education, travel related to teaching and research,...
A few things for our Carter County residents: FLU vaccine | If you interested in getting your annual Influenza vaccine, please call us to schedule your appointment. We have both adult and pediatric doses available. COVID vaccine | We still have vaccine available if you are interested in receiving. We welcome you to call with questions you may have. COVID testing | If you are experiencing any respiratory type symptoms and those more specific to COVID-19 such as loss of taste/smell, we encourage you to get tested. Testing for...
9-20-2021 The Board of Carter County Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, September 20, 2021, in the Carter County Commission Board Meeting Room of the Carter County Courthouse at 214 Park Street in Ekalaka, Montana. Steve Rosencranz, Chairman; and Mike Watkins, member was present; Rod Tauck, Vice Chairman was absent. Guest: Jeff Venhaus Commissioner Rosencranz called the meeting to order at 9 a.m. Commissioner Rosencranz requested public comment. Jeff commented that he would like to see the commission...
On September 22nd, Mike and Cheryl Schuldt came to Ekalaka to assist local Butch Nies in hosting a sheep shearing demonstration. Mike Schuldt has been shearing for 33 years and has traveled all over the world doing so, including trips to New Zealand and Australia. A timed event in Fredricksburg, Texas is also on the list of places where he has shorn. At the event, he sheared a sheep of around 100 pounds in 37 seconds, two seconds slower than the winning time. Butch and Carole...
The general municipal election for the Town of Ekalaka will be a mail ballot election this year. On Wednesday, October 15 the Carter County Clerk and Recorder’s Office will mail ballots to all registered active voters who reside within the boundaries of Ekalaka. Active electors will be able to vote in the privacy of their own homes. Each registered elector in the town will receive an individual ballot packet. Electors will vote their individual ballots, seal them in the secrecy envelope provided in the packet, place the s...
Ekalaka Public Schools is hosting a Child Find Developmental Screening on Tuesday, October 19th from 12:30 to 4 p.m. in the grade school gym. This free developmental screening is designed for children ages 0 - 5. Children aged 3 - 5 years will be screened in the following areas: Concepts/Thinking, Motor Skills, Speech/Language Development and Hearing. Children under 3 years will be screened by DEAP (Developmental Educational Assistance Program) staff. Call Mrs. Brittani Brence at 406-630-1823 to schedule an...
Last Wednesday Senator Steve Daines had the chance to talk to juniors and seniors from Carter County High School. Daines met with the students virtually during one of Mr. Miller's social studies classes. Daines and the students spoke about legislation being debated in the U.S. Senate like the Democrats' $3.5 trillion tax and spending bill and the importance of bipartisanship. As always, Daines was glad to chat with some of Montana's youngest and brightest....
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...
9-07-2021 The Board of Carter County Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, September 07, 2021, in the Carter County Commission Board Meeting Room of the Carter County Courthouse at 214 Park Street in Ekalaka, Montana. Steve Rosencranz, Chairman; Rod Tauck, Vice Chairman; and Mike Watkins, member was present. Commissioner Rosencranz called for public comment. There was none. Carter County Attorney Corbit Harrington joined the meeting. The commission reviewed the CDBG close outs (Dahl Memorial/ Hospital funds)....
Work continues on the East Short Pines Restoration and Resiliency project. The project, located in the East Short Pines Land Unit, one of eight land units managed by the Sioux Ranger District, is in western South Dakota and part of the Custer Gallatin National Forest. Work started in 2019 on the timber sale project and Nieman Lumber out of Spearfish, SD is conducting the work. Log trucks will begin hauling again and throughout the month of October to finish the sale this fall....
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted an Order designating 988 as the new three-digit abbreviated dialing code to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline starting July 16, 2022. The FCC’s Order requires all telecommunications carriers to make any network changes necessary to ensure that users can dial 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by July 16, 2022. In Montana’s 406 Area Code, and in 81 other area codes around the nation, the necessary changes include transitioning from seven-di...
Tuesday’s high temperature of 96 degrees is the hottest ever recorded in Ekalaka on September 28. In fact, it’s the highest the mercury has ever reached this late in the year. The all-time September high came early in the month, on September 5, 1978 when it reached 103 degrees. Temperatures are expected to cool off for the rest of the week and gradually warm throughout the weekend, eventually reaching back into the low to mid 80s early next week. As of Wednesday morning, Ekalaka had received 9.32 inches of precipitation in...
Tom and Mary McCamish celebrated 85th birthdays on September 18th in Ekalaka. Around 85 people, 20 of whom were relatives, attended a party in their honor at Carter County Events Center. Mary's birthday was on September 15 and Tom's is in January. Tom's brother, Herb McCamish, and Herb's wife, Georgetta, traveled from Spearfish, SD to attend....
One hundred four members signed in at Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association's annual meeting last Thursday night at Carter County Events Center. Around 60 attended last year and about 75 turned out in 2019. Steve McNeece, President and CEO at Community hospital of Anaconda, and Laura Austin from CAH Solutions Group called into the meeting from Superior. They gave a brief overview and explanation of the association's 2021-2022 operating plan. The operating plan was broken into...
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....
Back in March, the Eagle reported on what would be the newest addition to Ekalaka's Main Street. The much anticipated opening of Ijkalaka Grocery took place on Tuesday. At an impressive 5,200 square feet, the brand new grocery shares its name (Ijkalaka) with the town's namesake, Ijkalaka Russell, a native Sioux who was the wife of David Harrison Russell. According to store employee Dylan Mulkey, there was a steady flow of customers checking out the new digs throughout Tuesday...
5 CCHS Homecoming King Turner Tooke and Queen Zoie Rost were crowned at coronation on Monday night inside the school's Tuggle Room....
The Puptown Invitational Roping took place on Sunday in Ekalaka....
Ekalaka Airport hosted an inaugural 97M fly-in on September 11. The event was exceptionally well received as over one hundred people attended. Fourteen planes and one helicopter were there, as were 8 cars and one pickup for a car show that accompanied the fly-in. The furthest plane came from Missoula. The event was held to promote general aviation as well as Ekalaka Airport and the community. The airport sells fuel, has an ample pilot's lounge and a courtesy car that can take...
Big Mac's Pumpkin Patch is ready to open for the 2021 season. The drought, heat and grasshoppers didn't stop the pumpkins from growing, but go early to ensure finding the perfect pumpkin. Due to hay shortage there will not be a bale maze this year, but other new activities have been added. This year marks the third opening of the traditional pumpkin patch with several fun outdoor activities, a garden of pumpkins to pick from, delicious fall goodies, a large straw castle and...
Carter County is seeking public input regarding the County Pre-Disaster Mitigation Plan Update. The current plan was developed in 2013 and has expired the usual five-year life span. As part of the plan update, the county re-evaluates the hazards that directly affect Carter County and its residents, and lists corresponding mitigation actions. Hazard mitigation aims to reduce or eliminate the loss of life, injury or property damage, and mitigation actions are the specific projects that help to achieve those goals. A quick,...
Abbey Bruski was selling products to locals and friends for about 10 years. Then the pandemic hit and she changed her business for the better. In the summer of 2020 when meat was being rationed in grocery stores or being sold for extremely high prices, Bruski started Beaver Creek Homegrown, LLC. "I was disappointed we couldn't buy meat or it was outrageously priced," she said. With the help of her husband, Ryan, and their daughters Bekka and Harper, they sell a variety of...
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...
At their meeting on Monday, Carter County commissioners voted to suspend the request for proposals (RFP) for an operator and lessee of the new Carter County Healthcare Facility for the period commencing January 1, 2022. The decision came "because of new information presented to the County," according to a notice provided by the county. The RFP has been discussed heavily since the original notice was first published on July 23. On August 9th, approximately sixty concerned...
