Articles from the January 6, 2016 edition
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Undersheriff Billmayer on advisory panel to the Justice Innovation Center
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,...
Registration deadline nears for election at Fort Belknap
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...
Disaster relief declaration could affect local ranchers and farmers
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...
2016 has arrived in style...
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....
Now it's time to celebrate 'Old Christmas' - January 7, 2016
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...
The wonder of snow
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 g...
Business After Hours set for The Annex
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...
Needed: Pied Piper for Amtrak
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...
Making resolutions
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 r...
Blaine County Library
“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...
Harlem Library
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...
Turner Talk
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...
Hogeland Happenings
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...
Turner School presents students in concert for Christmas
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...
2015 was a great year for local sports, a look back at many of the great moments
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...
Thunderbirds thump Big Sandy 77-18
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...
Harlem falls to Cut Bank, now 3-3
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...
Pioneers edge Thunderbirds 34-31 in District 9C action
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...
These athletes were at the top of their field
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...
Wolves run past Wildcats to start new year
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 m...
What 'cher point?
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...
