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Reimagining Rural, a series focused on strengthening rural community vitality, will kick off on Tuesday, February 4. Developed and organized by Montana State University Extension’s Community Vitality Program, Reimagining Rural brings small towns together for three evenings to learn from experts and other small towns. Jennifer Anderson, Extension Community Vitality Associate Specialist, and series organizer said, “Reimagining Rural came from the idea that Montana’s small towns, and even more so, the folks who call these places home, matte...
GREAT FALLS — PAWS of Chinook, also known as “Pets Are Worth Saving,” is expanding its mission in Montana by taking over the former Havre’s Helping Haven location in Havre. The move aims to boost fundraising efforts and provide more support for both pets and people in need. The new facility is due to open on Friday February 21, 2025. A New Chapter for PAWS The PAWS shelter has been a staple in the community for years. “PAWS has been around for 30 years, and the shelter itself has been here since 2006,” said Alissa Hewitt, President of PAWS. No...
BILLINGS, Mont. – The Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas State Office today opened a 30-day public scoping period to receive public input on 29 oil and gas parcels totaling 9,102 acres that may be included in a September 2025 lease sale in Montana and North Dakota. The comment period ends Mar. 3, 2025. The parcels the BLM is analyzing, as well as maps and instructions on how to comment are available on the BLM’s ePlanning website at:https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2035530/510 Leasing is the first step in the process to...
Great Falls, MT – January 25, 2025 – Shane Ophus, owner of Ophus Auction Co., was inducted into the Montana Auctioneer Association Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Great Falls on January 25, 2025. This prestigious honor recognizes Ophus for his contributions to the auction profession and his impact on the Montana community. Ophus, through his company Ophus Auction Co., has built a respected reputation in the auction industry over the past 43 years. His commitment to providing reliable auc...
Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming announce the 2025 Girl Scout Cookie season officially begun on Friday. This year’s cookie lineup includes beloved flavors including Thin Mints, Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Patties, Peanut Butter Sandwhiches, Trefoils, Adventurefuls, Lemonades, Toast-Yay and gluten and allergen free Caramel Chocolate Chip. However, the flavor Toast-Yay will not be returning after the 2025 cookie season. The cookies are selling for $6 per package, with the exception of the Caramel Chocolate Chip cookies, which are $7 per p...
Since 1925, children across America have participated in classroom, school, and regional spelling bees hoping to advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. While only nine spellers participated in that first competition 100 years ago, their legacy lives on in the millions of students who compete at all levels of the spelling bee program today. In that spirit of competition, Turner Public School students in grades five through eight gathered in the Turner Gymnasium on Tuesday morning, January...
Harlem is welcoming a new business to Main Street! The MAPS Media Institute, 73 S. Main Street, will be holding their Grand Opening on Sunday, February 2 from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The opening will feature student presentations, a free community meal including Wildcat burgers and smoked ribs and also have live music featuring Jim & Jaime Fox. The MAPS Media Institute is an afterschool multi-media program serving students from Harlem, Hays/Lodgepole and Dodson. Everyone is welcome to come out and tour the studio, meet the staff and students and...
The Chinook community hosted the Red Cross blood drive on Tuesday, January 7th. We had 43 donors presenting. Great job everyone. The canteen was hosted by the Catholic Women, Patty Hall, and Debbie Ramberg. The hard work and time that goes into all the homemade sandwiches, snacks and sweet treats is always appreciated and enjoyed by all. To all those volunteering their time and energy to help get and keep the drive running smoothly, please know that your efforts are greatly appreciated: The Commercial Building for providing the site for the dri...
Billings, MT Dog Tag Buddies, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of veterans with disabilities through assistance dog partnerships, proudly announces its official accreditation by Assistance Dogs International (ADI). This remarkable achievement makes Dog Tag Buddies the first and only ADI-accredited program in Montana, solidifying its reputation as a leader in service dog training and veteran support. ADI is the foremost authority in the assistance dog industry, dedicated to the highest standards of excellence for the...
On January 8-9, Turner Public School Senior JR Brown joined other Big Sky Leadership, Engagement, and Development (LEAD) team members for their second meeting. The group congregated in Helena, not only to watch government in action at the state capitol but to meet with elected leaders and to hear featured speakers Marc Racicot and Marc Johnson celebrate the career of Mike Mansfield. After arriving in Helena on Wednesday and receiving an orientation about this session’s program, the group gathered on Thursday morning in the Montana State C...
The Department of Homeland Security has set May 7, 2025, as the deadline for people to add a REAL ID to a driver’s license or identification card. Without the REAL ID or an acceptable alternative such as a passport or passport card, a person will not get through TSA to board flights. “We want to make sure that we have strong adoption. We don’t want to turn this on and have folks that don’t have REAL IDs,” the head of operations support at TSA, Stacey Fitzmaurice, said on Wednesday. “We want to make sure that travelers are as prepared as...
MSUN Rodeo standouts Georgia Orahood, Malta, MT and Brittney Cox, Chinook, MT, competed in their first Montana Pro Rodeo Curcuit Finals in the Metra Great Falls, MT, January 9-11, 2025. Georgia Orahood set an arena record in Breakaway Roping with a1.9 in the 2nd performance. It was short lived though when NFR competitor Joey Williams, of Volberg, MT re-set the record with a 1.8 run. Georgia won Breakaway Roping Rookie of the Year for her efforts. Brittney Cox went into the Finals Barrel Racing...
The Montana State University-Northern’s Fall semester Dean’s List contains 325 students. To be included in the Dean’s List, students must carry a minimum of 12 credits and earn a grade point average of 3.25 or better. Students that received an incomplete or “F” during this semester are not included on the honor roll listing. The following list of students is organized alphabetically by hometown. Chinook MT Allison M Powell Christopher Jungers Dylan T Surber Flint Annis Isaiah P Gillett Jackson D Nordboe Joseph D Abate Sarah G Gillett Teagan L...
BOZEMAN – Montana State University has announced its undergraduate honor rolls for fall semester 2024. There are two MSU honor roll lists: the President’s and Dean’s lists. To be eligible for the lists, students must be enrolled in at least 12 college-level credits. This honor roll list was current as of Jan. 14, 2025, and includes all registration corrections or grade changes processed to that date. Students with a 4.0 GPA for the semester were named to the President’s List. An asterisk follows their names below. The Dean’s List includes...
MISSOULA – At the University of Montana, more than 3,000 undergraduate students made the fall semester 2024 Dean’s List or President’s 4.0 List. To qualify, students must be undergraduates, earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher and receive grades of A or B in at least nine credits. Students who receive a grade of C+ or less or no credit (NC/NCR) in a course are not eligible. The students listed below made UM’s fall semester 2024 Dean’s List or the President’s 4.0 List. Double asterisks after a name indicate the student earned a 4.0 GPA. A sing...
A couple of weeks ago about a dozen photographs by frontier photographer Charles E. Morris were hung on the wall across the hall from the County Superintendents Office on the main floor of the Blaine County courthouse. Jude Sheppard, the former Director of the Blaine County Museum, explained, "We had a gift from Chuck and Miriam Palm plus another private grant to purchase some of Morris' post cards that became available. With part of the gift we had some images Morris took enlarged for hanging...
Hello Harlem! I hope you, your family and friends all enjoyed a very happy new year. For many of us, the celebration of the new year includes making resolutions for the upcoming year. This tradition stretches back over 4,000 years when the ancient Babylonians made promises for the upcoming year to their gods for health, a good harvest and peaceful times. Through the centuries, these resolutions often had a religious significance. New year’s resolutions today are a mostly secular practice. Instead of making promises to the gods, most people make...
Thousands of million-dollar homes are benefiting from tax provisions aimed to boost farms and ranches. Montana’s property tax system is a complicated thing, involving mind-boggling math and a bewildering array of rules aimed at fairly dividing the bill for public services like schools and police departments between hundreds of thousands of properties. It’s a tricky task, of course, to agree on what exactly fair means when it comes to taxes — and a trickier one for lawmakers to write a tax code that implements a fair framework without looph...
Legislative leaders say the decision whether to renew Montana’s Medicaid expansion program this year will loom over behavioral health spending and hospital regulation, among other topics. A last-minute change to a 2019 bill put an end date on Montana’s Medicaid expansion program, setting the stage for what is anticipated to be the most significant health care debate of the 2025 Legislature. In recent interviews, legislative leaders predicted a vigorous debate over keeping the Medicaid expansion program, which pays the medical bills of more than...
MONTANA - Grizzly bears in the lower 48 states will continue to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has officially denied petitions to remove these protections, citing the need for the population to recover further. The Center for Biological Diversity noted that grizzly bear numbers around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks have improved since their protection began in 1975. However, the bears still face threats from isolation and human-caused deaths. Andrea Zaccardi, legal director of the...
St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group A big thank you to Representative Zinke, Senators Tester, and Senator Daines for making sure St. Mary/Milk River funding was in the Continuing Resolution at the end of 2024 congressional session. The $46.5 million will be awarded through the Bureau of Reclamation budget under Aging Infrastructure for St. Mary & Halls Coulee Siphon repairs. At the December 18 St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group meeting in Havre, a good crowd of 30 people from irrigators,...
8 was marked by historic elections, global unrest, and various other highlights. From wars to hurricanes to a presidential election described by some as chaotic and worrisome, the year featured multiple memorable moments. News in sports and science offered some relief from the trauma-laden headlines. Later this month, on January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will be sworn in to office as president and JD Vance as vice president. Despite (or because of) his unfiltered, reactive, and assertive...
High school seniors and college students across Montana, it's your time to shine! Starting January 1, Reach Higher Montana invites you to apply for its annual "It's Scholarship Time" program. With a single application, students can unlock access to multiple scholarships totaling tens of thousands of dollars in funding for post-secondary education. Applications close promptly on March 1, so don't miss your chance! This year's scholarship offerings include: • $2,000 Reach Higher Montana S...
rd Annual Eastern Montana Women's Conference from January 31 through February 2 in Malta. According to MFU representatives, "this conference is about food, farming, and beyond, from connections in rural communities to the science of our farms." Conference organizers invite women to join them for this gathering, where the work will focus not only on building new connections and community but on celebrating "the Ladies Who Ag!" The conference will begin on Friday with check-in and registration at...
In preparation for the upcoming season, Montana Actors' Theatre (MAT) will be holding its 2025 Company Auditions this Saturday, January 11 for adults and on January 13-14 for youth. Adult auditions will occur at the MSUN/MAT Theatre on Cowan Drive while those for youth will take place at Havre High School. MAT is planning three dramatic productions for the coming spring: The Foal Monty, Oliver!, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Adult auditions for these shows will begin at 4:00 p.m. on...
