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  • A well picked Pumpkin Patch...

    Oct 24, 2018

    This extraordinary Pumpkin Patch was recently visited by Chinook High School Senior Kourtney Hanson as she was having her senior pictures taken. The Pearson Pumpkin Patch is located south of Big Sandy and with the sun setting behind it provided a fantastic photo opportunity. Please remember to send us your spectacular pics! If we use it on the front page it will be entered into our $100 photo contest. Please send pics to bcjads@mtintouch.net....

  • Mission Creek prescribed burn will treat timber above Hays

    Oct 24, 2018

    For Immediate Release Contact: Lee Black Crow, Fire Management Officer Phone number: 406-353-4874 Date: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:30 a.m. Warm autumn days after a frost are fall prescribed burning season. Saturday, October 20, we plan our first prescribed fire in many years on the Fort Belknap Reservation, to help protect the town of Hays from a larger summer wildfire. Ponderosa pine forests in the Little Rockies depended on occasional fires every decade or two to keep their presettlement condition: large, widely spaced grandfather trees with...

  • Harlem High Graduate Shawn Tsosie earns Doctorate in Mathematics

    Oct 24, 2018

    For Shawn Tsosie, completing a Doctorate Degree in Mathematics was a lifelong dream. Now, after graduating with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in September, he has seen that dream fulfilled. Tsosie first developed an interest in math in Harlem, Montana, where he attended elementary, middle and high school. In 1998, while in high school, he applied for a summer program at Stanford University, where he studied complex analysis. He met people with Doctorate Degrees in math...

  • Candidates discuss funding crumbling St. Mary/Milk River infrastructure

    Oct 24, 2018

    St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group (SMRWG) held a federal candidate forum by telephone for their October 10, 2018 meeting at Havre City Hall. All four candidates, Kathleen Williams, Matt Rosendale, Greg Gianforte and Jon Tester visited with the group. The candidates had received written information regarding the 100-year old Federal Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) irrigation and water project. Specifically, the Project provides food for more than one million people on an annual basis and water...

  • White Pine 4-H Club September meeting report

    Lincy Johnson|Oct 24, 2018

    President Rebecca Stroh called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. on September 20, 2018, at the Meadowlark Cafeteria. Lincy Johnson led the American pledge and Emma Klingaman led the 4-H pledge. Minutes of the August 16th meeting were read and approved. We had no treasurer’s report at this time and have not received any communications. No bills were presented. Report was given on the Council meeting. Window displays will be judged this year and need to be up by October 10th. There will be an Ortner steer award through the 4-H Foundation this y...

  • Big Flat 4-H Club holds new years first meeting

    Bridget Reed|Oct 24, 2018

    Big Flat 4-H Club Reporter The Big Flat 4-H Club held their 1st meeting of the new year on October 21, 2018 at the Harlem Library meeting room. There were 11 members, 2 potential members, and 4 leaders present. Reports were given by Natalie and Brooke on the 4-H Week window displays and Bailey for the Elk Viewing. Achievement Night will be held on Nov. 11 at 4:00 in Chinook at the Commercial Building. Election was held, Seth-President, Hannah-Vice President, Jessa- Secretary, Brooke-Treasurer,...

  • Hogeland Happenings

    Anita Reed|Oct 24, 2018

    Dave and Teresa Cornell went to Billings on Saturday for Danial Cornell’s 4th birthday party. Hilary, Hannah, and Natalie were out to visit Harlan and Jane Krass on Saturday night. The Hogeland Lutheran Church annual dinner will be on Nov. 4 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. They will serve a delicious turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Susan and Emily Billmayer attended the fall dinner in Harlem at the Lutheran Church on Sunday. Wally and Loretta Beck attended the junior high basketball games in Gildford on Tuesday with Crystal and Lucy Grabofsky. A...

  • Turner Talk

    Diana Maloney|Oct 24, 2018

    Steve and Shirley Bevich of Shelby were weekend guests at Bill and Mary Hake’s home this weekend. Gerald and Shirley Keller were to Helena last weekend where they attended Chad and Katie Jone’s wedding. While there they stayed and visited with J.D. and Juliann Solomon and family, Anita Reed attended Volleyball games in Harlem on Wednesday after taking Brooke to her Orthodontist appointment in Havre. (She got her braces off!) Linda and Darel Hauge attended the Democratic spaghetti dinner in Chinook on Sunday. Kurt, Julie, Isley, and Dylan Wel...

  • Marylou Herdegen Barnes

    Oct 24, 2018

    Marylou Herdegen Barnes, Havre, MT- Marylou Herdegen Barnes, 84 passed away on October 20th 2018 at her home in Havre, MT. A Memorial service will be held at Chinook Alliance Church on October 25th 2018 at 1:00pm. Funeral Services where entrusted to Edwards Funeral Home.... Full story

  • Harlem Library

    Oct 24, 2018

    After School Story Hour meets today from 3:30-4:30. There will be no After School Story on Halloween, Oct. 31.The library board of trustees meets today at 4:15 P.M. Lego Club meets on Thursdays at 4:30 P.M. and Books and Babies is held Tuesdays at 10 A.M. Book Club members may pick up the new book “Pachinko” this week. The first discussion will be Oct. 29, 4 P.M. Mark your calendars for the Holiday Wine and Cheese fundraiser which will be held December 5. “Watching You” is the new gripping novel by Lisa Jewel. You have a new husband and are...

  • Solid Finances Webinar Series Offered at Harlem Public Library

    Oct 24, 2018

    The Harlem Public Library will be presenting three Solid Finances webinars on adult financial education during the month of November. These free webinars will be offered as “Lunch and Learn” classes at the library. The schedule of presentations includes “Budgeting for Your Good Life” - Nov. 7; “Slash Your Spending” - Nov. 14; and “Organizing Your Financial Paperwork” - Nov. 21. Each webinar will shown from 12:05 to 12:55 in the library meeting room. Participants may attend any or all of the presentations. Attendees are asked to bring their own...

  • Chinook Senior Center

    Marlane Wenzel|Oct 24, 2018

    Thank you for the monetary donations made this past week to the Senior Center. We appreciate your thoughtfulness. Thank you. We need a volunteer for Mondays for the kitchen. Duties would include some prep cook work, washing dishes (we have a dishwasher), sanitizing and setting the tables for lunch and then clean up after lunch. Time is from 9 – 1. Please see if you can fit time into your schedule for this day. The Senior Center is in serious need of volunteers. We need volunteers in the kitchen for sure, but also we need closets organized a...

  • Harlem Senior Center

    Katie Noel|Oct 24, 2018

    Thank You!…or in Norwegian, Tusen Takk! To the Flu Clinic Staff for the cups and napkins; To Alan Brekke for the tomatoes; To Steve Stearns for the crabapples; To Sissy McGuire for the cases of water; To the family of Mary O’Bryan for the flower bouquet. Today in History! 1939: The American film “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” debuts, starring James Stewart as an earnest young senator persevering against corruption. Spooktime…Goblintime…Candytime. Yes, it is all here real soon! Remember, the Senior Center is having its Halloween Costume or...

  • Blaine County Library

    Oct 24, 2018

    If you missed the first meeting of our book club, Free People Reading Freely, you have plenty of time to stop in and choose a book to read for before the next meeting! We have multiple copies of the Top 10 Most Challenged or Banned Book in 2017. The next meeting will be Tuesday November 12th at 7:00 p.m. in the library meeting room. Everyone is welcome to attend. The movie today will be “Ladies in Lavender” at 1:00 p.m. in the library meeting room. The movie is rated PG-13 and it runs for one hour and 44 minutes. Everyone is welcome to att...

  • 'Beeters land biggest hit of the contest, on the scoreboard in 12-8 over Chester/J-I

    Kody Farmer|Oct 24, 2018

    The Chinook Sugarbeeters are headed back to the Montana Class C State Football Eight-man playoffs after winning a hard hitting physical contest 12-8 over the Chester/Joplin Inverness Hawks at home Saturday night. It's not very often one will witness a Class C football that has a final score of 12-8 but Saturday's contest was a hard hitting defensive battle that saw both offenses struggle with the opposing defense. The Chinook defense made it's presence felt early in the contest as senior Trajan...

  • Sugarbeeters finish 10-0 in 6C-East, head to Districts Thursday

    Kody Farmer|Oct 24, 2018

    The Chinook Sugarbeeters captured yet another District 6C-East Volleyball crown, finishing the regular season conference schedule with a perfect 10-0 mark. The Sugarbeeters notched the final 'W' last Monday when they defeated the Chester/Joplin-Inverness Hawks in four sets. Overall the 'Beeters compiled a 12-2 overall record and will enter the post season as the District 6C East No. 1 Seed. The Sugarbeeters were able to utilize their entire roster in defeating the Hawks and fine tune some things...