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A fire that started on Monday approximately sixteen miles south of Ekalaka on Highway 323 burned 3,177 acres. The fire was aided by high winds and jumped the highway, making it to Box Elder Creek. Four different producers had land burned. The fire was about six miles long and one mile wide. Units from Carter County Rural Fire, Ekalaka Volunteer Fire Department, BLM, Baker, Plevna, Harding County, the forest service and Alzada Fire Department were on scene. DNRC also sent two...
The photo to the left was taken by Joe Peters at the old Hockett Basin school site on Powder River. The teamster is Gene Brown, a local rancher who was headed to the precinct to vote when he lost one of the horses on his team. Brown must have thought that casting his vote was important enough to go to the bother of hitching up his milk cow to get him there. One can only wonder what the horse was thinking. According to Ingrid Brown of Powderville, the picture was taken around...
On October 7, Carter County reported three confirmed active cases of COVID-19 and was no longer under the governor’s mask mandate. By October 10, the county reported four active cases and went back under the directive requiring masks. The next day, three individuals were reported as recovered and the county went back to one active case, meaning no masks were required. Then, on Tuesday Carter County reached a new high for confirmed active cases with 15, again falling under Governor Bullock’s mask mandate....
Due to COVID-19 concerns, Ekalaka Public Schools has canceled the developmental screening for children aged 0-5 years that was scheduled for Tuesday, October 20. The screening has been rescheduled for April 6, 2021. For more information, call the school at 406-630-1523....
Main Street in Ekalaka will be a great stop for young trick-or-treaters when Halloween arrives this year. The annual ‘Trick or Trunk’ event has moved from the parking lot of St. Elizabeth Lutheran Church to Main Street. It will feature vehicles decorated for the occasion by rural hosts, allowing children to do a great deal of trick-or-treating in a single location. Businesses are also invited to decorate. The event will run from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 31. Everyone is invited to stop by and enjoy the decorations and...
Nash Sauers, Ekalaka, Mont., graduated from Bismarck State College with an Associate in Applied Science degree in Process Plant Technology during the college's 80th commencement ceremony on May 15, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BSC 2020 Commencement ceremony was held virtually to confer over 970 degrees. The BSC 2020 Commencement speaker was Miss America 2018 Cara Mund, a native of Bismarck, N.D. The virtual ceremony is available to view on the BSC website. BSC...
The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) recently announced a proposal to resurface about 9.5 miles of Highway 323, southeast of Ekalaka. The public is invited to comment. The project begins approximately one mile south of the Prairiedale Road intersection, at reference post 8.2 and extends southeast for 9.5 miles ending near the Boxelder Creek Bridge at reference post 17.7. Proposed work includes pulverization, grading and paving the roadway, and finishing with a seal...
Big Mac's Pumpkin Patch, located about twenty-three miles north of Ekalaka and 5 miles west of Willard, is open for fun and adventure for the 2020 season and the pumpkins are growing! In its second year of existence, the pumpkin patch is much more than pumpkins. The biggest addition is a giant bale maze, complete with misdirections, twists, turns and spooky decor. Co-sponsors of the community event, making this possible and helping with things needed to hold this kind of...
courtesy of Fallon County Times The 17th annual Stan Wagner Memorial Game Feed will be held Nov. 14 in the Livestock Barn at the Fallon County Fairgrounds in Baker. The game feed recently got approval from the Fallon County Health Department, as long as masking and social distancing is maintained, according to organizer Wendy Wagner. “We are still moving forward. We are just taking extra precautions,” she said. “You have to wear a mask when you come in. There will be hand sanitizers all over. When you come in, you will have...
Are you having trouble with winter heating bills? Southeast Electric Cooperative offers energy assistance in conjunction with the Action for Eastern Montana LIEAP program. Assistance is for the cost of your heating, which may be propane or electricity. If you qualify through the LIEAP Program you will also receive additional assistance on your electric bill. If you received assistance last year, you will be sent the application form directly from Action for Eastern Montana. Applications are available online at AEMT.org or...
Earlier this year, local teen Katie Tooke was battling health problems. She spent almost an entire month seriously ill before finally being diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. That was about the same time everything got shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ekalaka Public Schools went to online instruction from March 16 through the end of the 2020-2021 school year. Tooke was at home, isolated from friends and activities like the rest of her classmates. After a rough th...
After reporting one case of COVID-19 in Carter County early last week, the Carter County COVID-19 Task Force reported a total of three active cases last Wednesday. At an emergency meeting that evening, school board members voted to close Ekalaka Public Schools until 4 p.m. on Friday. All high school and junior high activities, including volleyball games scheduled for Thursday in Jordan, were canceled. After the school reopened, Friday night’s varsity football game versus Forsyth and Saturday’s volleyball games versus Cir...
The Montana Learning Center and Carter County Museum partnered this summer to provide students in eighth through 12th grade an unforgettable learning experience as working paleontologists. At Camp Clades & Spades, campers and staff from the Learning Center and the Carter County Museum spent two and a half days at an active dig site in the Pierre Shale Formation in Eastern Montana, excavating the tail end of a mosasaur -- a 75 million-year-old predatory marine reptile of the...
Every year, National 4-H Week sees millions of youth, parents, volunteers, and alumni come together to celebrate the many positive youth development opportunities offered by 4-H. The theme for this year's National 4-H Week, Opportunity4All, is a campaign that was created by National 4-H Council to rally support for Cooperative Extension's 4-H program and identify solutions to eliminate the opportunity gap that affects 55 million kids across America. With so many children...
Ballots for the 2020 general election will be mailed to all active Carter County voters on October 9, 2020. Ballots can be returned by mail (P.O. Box 315) or delivered to the Carter County Clerk and Recorder's Office, located inside the courthouse at 214 Park Street in Ekalaka. Active voters may also elect to vote in person by bringing the ballot that was mailed to them, along with all envelopes, to the clerk and recorder's office. Their, they can fill out their ballot, place...
The Carter County Senior Center will open its doors to the public on October 5th. There will be several measures taken to fulfill the requirements of Phase 2 of Governor Bullock’s reopening plan. Everyone will have their temperature taken with a contact-less thermometer before being permitted to enter the facility. Patrons will be signed in and asked to use sanitizer. No more than twenty-two individuals will be allowed inside the center at a time. Congregate meals will be set up for no more than 20 individuals at a time. T...
The 2020 Alzada Cowboy Poetry, Music and Art Show has been canceled. The show has been held on the first Sunday of October for thirty years, but due to COVID concerns and other family events the organizers felt it would be best not to have it in 2020. Organizers appreciate all the loyal support of artists, performers and the large audiences that have gathered “like a family reunion” since 1989 when it was started to celebrate the Montana Centennial. The show has been canceled once before, in 2013 due to the Atlas Bli...
4 CCHS Homecoming King Seth Kennedy and Queen Tylee Loehding were crowned at coronation on Rowley Field last Friday afternoon....
The CCHS Class of 2022 homecoming parade float was themed after the popular board game "Operation" which was first introduced in 1965. The battery-operated game is a test of hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills, an appropriate choice of theme for student athletes during homecoming....
An online GoFundMe page has recently been set up for Ekalaka resident Kate Frye. GoFundMe is an American for-profit crowdfunding platform that allows people to raise money in challenging circumstances such as accidents and illnesses. Frye was recently diagnosed with small cell lung cancer. The cancer is currently at the limited stage, meaning it has not spread to other areas. She has already completed one round of chemotherapy and is now starting six weeks of radiation, which will include trips to Rapid City five days a...
On Wednesday morning, the Carter County COVID-19 Task Force announced that the county has its first positive case of COVID-19. The case is described as “secondary to a COVID-19 outbreak in Powder River County. Powder River County is now above the four-active-case threshold for the mask mandate enacted July 15. Powder River County High School will begin remote online instruction beginning on Thursday, September 24th through Friday, October 2nd. They have also canceled all school activities and sports through October 3. P...
Kristen Juras, Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Montana, stopped in Ekalaka last Thursday afternoon. Juras was accompanied by fellow Republican Jerry Schillinger who is running for election to the Montana House of Representatives to represent District 37. The two met with a few locals at Wagon Wheel Café and discussed topics including agriculture, meat processing and the current state of Highway 7 and Highway 323. Juras is a fourth-generation Montanan who grew up on her family’s ranch near Conrad. She gr...
Discussion at Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association’s Annual Meeting last week was focused around progress on the new building project. Dahl CEO Ryan Tooke also noted that the association made a profit over the last fiscal year and that financially they are currently “in good shape.” Starting in October, the clinic will have two providers working on days they are open for normal business hours. Information was given about DMHA’s endowment and how donations and gifts can be beneficial to both donors and the endowment. Several...
Mr. Daniel Conley is no stranger to small towns, or Montana, even though the new Carter County High School English teacher was born in New York City. Conley is now in his second year teaching and made the move to Ekalaka just before this school year began. Conley spent much of his youth in upstate New York, in a town about twice the size of Ekalaka. He spent 32 years as a chef before deciding to make a career change to teaching. His first job as a chef was for an...
As the days continue to get shorter and cooler, Carter County Chamber of Commerce members have reflected on a wonderful summer and are currently looking forward to the months ahead. The Annual Community Wide Garage Sale that takes place in June of each year was originally postponed with the possibility of a fall sale. Members at the September meeting voted to wait until next June for public safety. July 4 brought a summer storm followed by a beautiful sky full of fireworks in Ekalaka. The chamber would like to extend sincere...
