Week of December 10, 2025
Week of December 10, 2025
Monthly awards were bestowed at Meadowlark Elementary School on November 25. Several students were named as winners of the Recess Award, Mountain Mover Award, and Principal's Award. Others were honored as Students of the Month and as Dog Man artists. Winners of the Recess Award who showed respect and good sportsmanship on the playground were Peighton Dawson, Raelynn Dawson, Raija Weinheimer, Josey Sather, Veda Nieft, and Dax Langford. For making improvements academically, behaviorally, or...
Winter sports are always exciting along the Hi-Line, and the 2025–26 winter will be no different as Harlem, Turner, and Hays-Lodge Pole all take to gyms around the area for a brand-new season of winter athletics. The Harlem boys and girls basketball teams will begin their new season this weekend at the Lockwood Tip-Off Tournament. The Harlem boys are coming off a magical season a year ago in which they finished in a tie for fifth place at the Class B State Tournament in Missoula. The...
After a run to the Class B state tournament just one year ago, the Chinook girls basketball team is back for a new season. The Sugarbeeters are ready to be strong once again. Chinook won the District 1B title and battled Malta at both the Northern B and Class B state tournaments a season ago, in what was an exciting season for the Sugarbeeters on the hardwood. The Sugarbeeters will have a new head coach this season, as former Fairfield star and Gonzaga standout Jill Barta takes over the...
The high school basketball season has arrived, and that means Chinook boys basketball is back in action. The Sugarbeeters are under the direction of head coach Mike Bell, and Bell has an outstanding returning cast of players that will look to make a big splash in District 1B and beyond this season. Senior leader Britt Powell is surrounded by a strong junior contingent that includes Ryan Bell and 6-4 center Jameson Nordboe. Cooper Stadisch is also part of an outstanding junior class, while the sophomore group will also be strong. Bryce...
Winter has arrived, and inside gyms around the Treasure State, high school wrestling has returned. Of course, high school wrestling has always been a winter focal point in Chinook, and this season will be no different. Head coach Ben Stroh, a former Chinook four-time state champion and star for the Montana State University–Northern Lights, returns to lead the Chinook boys and girls on the mat this season, a season that began at last weekend's Havre Invitational. The Chinook boys scored 27.5...
Harlem Food Bank Harlem is looking for someone to manage the Food Bank. Call Jack Siemens at 406-945-1127. Senior Center Chinook Senior Center is in need of community volunteers who are willing to become a part of our wonderful team of people who help in our kitchen and dining room, perhaps one day a week, for a few hours. Please call us @ 357-2648 or stop in and see Ginger for more information. Blaine County Library Monday: Home School Hour 1:00-2:00, Middle School Meet-up 3:45-4:45(Grades 6-8). Tuesday: Story Time 10:30-11:00, Kidz Zone...
You know, Lord, we three gals arrived early at Church. A middle-school, girl, Katie, asked if she could ‘share’ something – we nodded; quietly she said: “Daddy parked the car, Mom was getting out, I saw my friend Jackie, walking from a car, then she saw me and came running across the parking – really fast and in a moment, Jackie was there and said: ‘Did you see there were four of us? I wanted to thank you for praying with me that dad and mom would come to church with grandma and me. I saw that they actually smiled? Thank YOU! I...
Selected from a different parcel of public land around the state each year, the tree that will adorn Montana’s Capitol rotunda for the holiday season was harvested near Seeley Lake in the Lolo National Forest on Monday, November 24. With Governor Greg Gianforte looking on, foresters felled the Douglas Fir as part of an active forest management project. Following his lead, the governor encourages Montanans to participate in the tradition of harvesting Christmas trees from the state’s public lands to benefit forest health as well as to...
Hello From the Chinook Senior Center We trust that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, spent with family, friends and neighbors. We heard that the Community Thanksgiving dinner was a huge success, once again, due to the efforts of many local people who make this possible. We are so happy to live in a community where these things are a reality. The SCAMMERS are really ramping up their efforts to steal your belongings, so please do NOT answer these calls. Do not respond to these calls or emails, from people that you do not recognize,...
ritten using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program. Visiting our family in Washington state I learned some about Artificial Intelligence. I asked my grandson-in-law, Avery, if he would show me how to use AI to write a story. The following story is based on a one paragraph request I made online with only minimal details about the people and the event. To me this new technology is amazing...and scary. WOODINVILLE, Washington. - Thanksgiving morning dawned cold and bright in Woodinville, as...
With the month of December full of holidays and cold weather, our book display includes all things winter. Come find a cozy winter mystery or a happy Christmas tale, including new books by Karen Kingsbury and Richard Paul Evans. For those readers who enjoy a little more “shiver” come check out Patricia Cornwell’s new book Sharp Force. This is the 29th book in the series, following Kay Scarpetta investigating a serial killer known as the Phantom Slasher. Another exciting new book is Return...
Thank you to any and all who helped or participated in any way during the Friends’ Wine & Cheese Event! Stop by the library tomorrow evening any time between 4:30-7:00, we will be open during the Jubilee. A reminder that we will be taking breaks from After School Squad and Lego Club until January. December’s book challenge is to read a book involving some sort of game. Christmas books featured this week include: Miss Winter in the Library With a Knife by Martin Edwards The Christmas...
