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Blaine County Undersheriff Frank Billmayer recently was a part of an expert panel advising the Justice Innovation Center on a project aimed at improving the criminal justice system in small, rural, tribal and border (SRTB) area agencies. The Justice Innovation Center is a collaborative partnership between the National Institute of Justice, the RAND Corporation and Arizona State University. The partnership has conducted a number of studies to improve the criminal justice system in the United...
To all enrolled members of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation who are eligible to vote: On Wednesday February 3, 2016, a Secretarial Election will be held on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation to determine if an Amendment can be made to Fort Belknap Indian Community’s Constitution, Article III Subsection 5 Definitions. Fort Belknap’s Election Board has sent packets out, in the mail, to all eligible voters. If you wish to vote in this Secretarial Election on February 3, 2016, your registration form must be received in the Election office no...
On December 16 Governor Steve Bullock announced that Lake and Hill Counties were designated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as primary natural disaster areas due to extreme weather and drought conditions. Because contiguous counties to a declared natural disaster county also are affected, Blaine County ranchers and farmers may be eligible for help for lost production. Earlier in the month there was another declaration of a physical disaster that affected Blaine County. This declaration applies only to physical damage to buildings...
Vonnie and Dale Klungland, of Harlem, pose wearing their "future looks so bright 2016 shades." The Klungland's were celebrating the New Year's arrival at the Harlem Senior Center....
Reporter's note: Twenty plus years ago my family and I were living in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Some new people moved next door to us and at Christmas we noticed they left their Christmas tree up until mid-January. Our daughter went to school with one of the neighbor's kids and learned the new family was Russian Orthodox. They celebrated 'Old Christmas,' which is a couple of weeks after December 25, more specifically January 6 or 7. I hadn't thought much about this until my wife went to seminary...
It’s funny about snow. No matter how often, how firmly, we tell ourselves that snow has nothing to do with Christmas, Christmas has nothing to do with snow, do we really, truly, deep in our hearts believe it? Being honest, I can’t say Yes. A boy or girl who wishes for snow at Christmas may be consoled if they get a bicycle or roller skates because at least they may be able to use the gift that day. If they get ice skates or snow toys of any kind, visible grass will seem almost a taunt. Some people in snow country are glad to get by without havi...
The Alliance Church will be hosting the Chinook Area Chamber's first Business After Hours event of the new year. The Alliance Church, located at the corner of Highway 2 and Indiana Street, moved in to an additional facility last fall. Pastor Dennis Findorff said, "Our congregation has been wanting to have an open house to let locals see our new Sunday school and office facility. The Business After Hours seemed like a good way to introduce the community to The Annex." The Annex is located at the...
My wife and I had traveled out to the Seattle area, on Amtrak, to spend a few days babysitting our grandkids while our daughter and son-in-law made a brief pre-Christmas trip. We opted to take Amtrak because of the various weather threats, and we’re not big fans of crossing mountains with snow-packed roads. Turned out to be the right decision as both the Cascades and Rockies were hammered with snow both going and coming to and from the west coast. We’ve traveled Amtrak many times, first when we lived in North Dakota and would travel to see our...
Most make a list of resolutions at the beginning of the year. They make promises to themselves to change different things in their life. Most resolutions are made to try and better their lives. A lot of people don’t know the origin or how making resolutions started so I did some research and found some different information. Maybe the new information will give you guidance and a new view on how you make your goals. The Babylonians were the first to make resolutions history says. They made their resolutions in mid March and resolutions were m...
“Annie’s Point” will be the Hallmark movie today at 1 p.m. in the library meeting room. Betty White stars in this upbeat movie about taking chances and living your dreams. Refreshments will be served and everyone is welcome to join us. Story Time is Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. All kids are welcome to join whatever fun things Kelsey has planned. LEGO Club is Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. and is open to grades K though 6. Middle School Hangout for January is scheduled for Thursday January 14, at 3:30 p.m. There will be board games...
Triangle Communications will present a free class on Basic Internet & Email on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 6 p.m. at the library. This class will cover email functions such as setting up an account, sending, forwarding and replying. It will also give instructions on internet addresses, browsers, and search engines. If you plan on attending, please contact the library at 353-2712 by Jan. 11. Please join in the Book Challenge for 2016. For January we challenge you to reread your all-time favorite book! When you finish, contact the library with the...
There will be basketball games this weekend. On Friday Hays will be playing the Tornadoes in Turner. Game times are 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Then the Tornadoes travel to Chinook where they will play on the Sugarbeeter floor on Saturday. Game times are at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. On Wednesday, January 13 there will be a spelling bee at the school for grades 5-8. Ron and Susan Fox attended the New Year’s Eve party at the Old Gym on Thursday. Dwight and Alice Hauge visited Linda and Darel Hauge on Saturday. Don and Val Van Voast attended the New Y...
On Monday, Dec. 28, Loretta and Wally Beck went to Great Falls for medical appointments. They also took Laura Sherwood out for lunch in honor of her birthday. On the way home they visited Darwin, Betty and Keith Zellmer in Harlem. Meagan Wilkenson and Eric Billmayer were dinner guests on New Year’s Day at Gene and Susan Billmayers. Teresa and Dave Cornell had supper Wednesday nightt with Dalton, Alyssa and Danial in Billings. Dusty and Misty Mohar and son Colter were out Saturday to Brenda and Terry Mohars to visit. Landon Beck and a friend w...
The Turner Public School hosted a concert for everyone in the community to enjoy before their Christmas break began. All grades, kindergarten through sixth grades sang prior to Santa making his yearly visit and to listen to all the children’s wishes. The National Honor Society made up treat bags that were given to all the children as they came up to visit Santa. The Hogeland Happy Housewives Club served refreshments following the program. It was a lovely evening and everyone who attended e...
The past twelve months have been a banner year for many athletes and teams throughout Blaine County. Four team state championships were won and seven athletes became individual state champions while a few more finished second or third. The Chinook Sugarbeeters captured the first as they won another Class C Wrestling championship. The Sugarbeeter tennis team repeated as Class B/C in May. August began with the Harlem swim team winning the Class C title in Sidney. The last being the remarkable run...
Hays/Lodge Pole started 2016 out the same way they finished 2015, with a win. The Thunderbirds steamrolled the Big Sandy Pioneers Saturday 77-18 to even their District 9C record at 2-2. They improved to 2-4 overall. The Thunderbirds jumped all over Big Sandy early, leading 26-3 after one quarter of action. Junior Frank RunsAbove led the Thunderbird charge early scoring eight in the opening stanza. Seven players scored in the opening eight minutes for the Thunderbirds as they presented a...
If one thing is for certain in the District 2B girls' basketball race, it's that Harlem is becoming a team to pay attention to. The girls were in Cut Bank Saturday to take on the District 1B Wolves in a non-conference clash. Harlem carried a 3-2 record into the contest and were looking to start the new year off with a win but the Wolves had other ideas as they defeated Harlem 70-54. Cut Bank jumped out to a 19-10 lead after eight minutes. Freshman Skylee Dirden scored seven points in the...
The Hays/Lodge Pole Thunderbirds nearly found the win column Saturday falling 34-31 to the Big Sandy Pioneers. The Thunderbirds got a three point basket from freshman Rayleigh Kirkaldie in the opening quarter to keep the team close as they trailed 10-8 entering the second. Junior Kenessa Shambo drained a long three in the second stanza but the Pioneers managed to extend the advantage to 17-13 by halftime. Rayleigh, freshman Latasha Kirkaldie, freshman Talia Werk and sophomore Miquela Perez each scored in the third quarter for the Thunderbirds....
Chinook sophomore Tate Niederegger, senior Mariah Swank and senior Britney Nelson finished their respective sports season on top of the podium as state champions. Sophomore Tate Niederegger was back in the Championship this season following a runner up finish during his freshman campaign. Niederegger defeated Jamie Mullens of Saint Ignatius 5-2 in the final. "It's a dream come true," said Niederegger. "The team did a great job individually and even brought back the first place team trophy."...
The Harlem Wildcats are still learning a new offense and defense installed by first year head coach Terry Kulbeck and it’s not because of effort that the team has struggled to find the win column more than once. Saturday in Cut Bank the Wolves managed a 59-32 non-conference win over the Wildcats. Harlem fell behind early and was never able to recover. The Wildcats trailed 14-0 after one quarter and 27-9 at halftime. The Wolves took a 59-32 win from the Wildcats, Senior Keahna Little scored 15 p...
Last weekend was the end of the regular season for the NFL. That means that all too soon football will be coming to a close. I admit, this year there was too much to do to watch many bowl games but if it ends up that it is Clemson vs. Alabama for the championship, you can guess that I will be watching that one and rooting for Clemson all the way! Meanwhile in the NFL, this last week has been plagued by bad decisions by coaches and one coach already has been fired even though at the time the season wasn’t over. I watched the game where the P...
