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Kelly Mills began his new duties as Blaine County Superintendent of Schools on June 1. Last school year the Arkansas native was the teacher at North Harlem Colony and the head coach for the Harlem/Turner football program. Kelly, and his family, currently live in a church parsonage at the Fort Belknap Agency. He replaces former superintendent Terry Brockie who resigned the end of April to take a position with Island Mountain Development Group, located in Hays. Mills and his family moved from...
New York Street in Chinook was lined with emergency vehicles, the Sweet Park was packed with firemen, EMT's, law enforcement officers and a few 'gawkers.' Normally the only time that many emergency responders would be together would be some sort of regional training event or a major catastrophe. Fortunately, this gathering was for fun, but also purposeful. The event was a "meet and greet" organized by several local people involved with emergency services and law enforcement. Organizers...
The Blaine County Commissioners approved the construction contract that will launch the third floor remodel project at the courthouse. After the bidding process was completed on April 20, the commissioners asked the architect to make some modifications to get the cost of the project more in line with the budgeted amounts. That work all came together in June when commissioners approved the contract for $444,400. Commissioners said earlier there were three bidders on the project. The funds for the project will come from the county’s Building I...
Independence Bank is pleased to announce that Bill Keller has been promoted to Executive Vice President. In his new position, Keller will assist in leading, supporting and coordinating the Bank management team. In addition to his new responsibilities, Keller now sits on the Bank Board of Directors and will continue in his role of Chief Credit Officer with oversight responsibilities for all lending functions of Independence Bank in Havre and it five branches located in Malta, Glasgow, Poplar,...
Independence Bank is pleased to announce the recipients of the Independence Bank New Student Scholarship the 2016-2017 academic year. All of the students will be attending Montana State University-Northern and will receive a $1000 scholarship during their freshman year. Chye Handran is graduating from Scobey High School and is planning to major in Elementary Education with a minor in Physical Education. Her parents are Steve and Liana Handran of Scobey. Beau Hyatt is graduating from Bainville High School and plans to pursue a double major in...
The City of Harlem and the Harlem Public Library's Summer Reading Program are sponsoring a bike safety workshop to be held the afternoon of Thursday, June 16. The Blaine County Sheriff's Department will be conducting the workshop. Workshop organizers said there will be information and practice on several safety aspects of bicycle safety. Sheriff Glenn Huestis explained much of the material to be used was from the National Safety Council and purchased through donations of local businesses and...
The West, Wild or not, is generally a beef place but not much of a pork place. Well, I heard once that Irv has some pigs, but I’ve never caught a whiff of them or seen them or heard their squeal. In areas where the whiff from the barn is called “the smell of money,” pigs are called hogs. Pigs are more often heard of in This Little Pig Went to Market. There’s even a magazine called Hogs Today, for those who raise hogs in a serious way. So out West, to hear of a pig slaughtering is rather rare. As it happens, a pig slaughter is scheduled for eig...
If you are a Presbyterian the minister’s house is a manse. If you are an Episcopalian, the residence is the Rectory. If you are a Methodist like me, your minister’s house is called the Parsonage. It was in discussing our parsonage that I found that most of my church is not marching to the same drummer as I am. First, with an elderly and shrinking congregation, the large question that looms on my mind is whether we can afford to provide a residence for our minister. Would we be better off to provide him or her more money and let him or her fin...
Chinook’s JUMP, a Christian youth group, will be offering a vacation Bible school program in conjunction with this year’s Loaves and Fishes summer feeding program. The four-day Bible school will meet at Sweet Park, next to the city swimming pool, on Monday through Thursday, June 20-23. Each day of Bible school will begin with lunch provided through Loaves and Fishes. Lunch will be served, at the park, at 12 noon each day before the Bible school program. After lunch will be crafts, Bible stories, songs and games. This year’s theme will be “Unlik...
Sara Chaffin and Koleman Anderson are both second graders at Meadowlark Elementary in Chinook. The two have formed a relationship that is quite unique. Koleman is a special needs student but spends part of his school day in a general education classroom. Sara, in the same general classroom, has taken on the role as a friend and helper to Koleman, and that pairing has taken them all the way to the Olympics-the Special Olympics. The Special Olympics are held each year to give special needs student...
There will be a baby shower for Ellie Grace Guzman, newborn daughter of Shari (Goodrich) and Mike Guzman, to be held on Saturday, June 11, at 2:00 p.m. at the Hogeland Lutheran Church basement. Everyone welcome! Susan Billmayer visited and had coffee with Jane Krass on Saturday morning. Wally and Loretta Beck attended Memorial Day services at all three cemeteries on the Big Flat on Monday and the meal afterwards in Turner. They visited at the Mike Grabofsky home that afternoon. Hilary, Linda, Diana, and Anita and girls visited Jane and Harlan...
On Wednesday(the 25th), Lyndsay and Linda Hutton traveled to Malta to spend the afternoon visiting Dorothy Johnson. They celebrated Dorothy’s birthday. Susan Fox enjoyed going to Buffalo, WY to visit Bob and Lynette Fox last week. Denise and A.J. Watkins were to Geyser on Saturday to attend a basketball tourney. Rennay and Melanie played on Turner’s team. Rose Van Voast celebrated her 90th birthday with all her family this past Sunday. Best Wishes, Rose, and blessings to you today and the whole year long! Reece Hutton is attending Boys Sta...
Reporter's note: Well, the story I wrote about the shooting of Frank Mitchell, a camp cook, certainly brought responses from alert readers. The story ran in the April 13 issue of the "Journal" and by the next morning I had faxes, phone messages and copies of local history books waiting on my desk at the newspaper. Wow, I must have really messed up! Actually, the people offering corrections to the story did it in a gracious way, a way that made me thankful for more complete information about the...
After returning from a successful Nationals competition in Michigan, the Harlem High United Formula 1 team took time out of their busy end of the school year schedules to present a demonstration at Harlem Elementary. The team set up their tracks and readied their CO2 powered cars - then the race was on! The students and staff were absolutely astonished at the tremendous speeds the cars reached. The team members also fielded many questions from the curious onlookers, who thanks to the Formula 1...
After a very successful District Solo and Ensemble Festival in Shelby, music students from Chinook High School moved onto State Solo and Ensemble Festival in Helena. Out of twelve songs presented, three received superior ratings, the highest honor given. The remaining nine songs received excellent ratings and were all just a few points away from receiving superiors themselves. The following students received superior ratings: Travis Hamilton for his vocal solo, "Across the Western Ocean";...
