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What a day!!!! Just as the sun was setting over Babb, MT around 10 PM on June 25, the first surge of water began its climb through the newly replaced St. Mary siphon outlet-marking a major milestone on its journey to the Milk River. From here, it will wind its way down the St. Mary Canal and eventually reach the North Fork of the Milk River where it will make its journey through Canada before it drops back in to the United States where it will be stored in Fresno Reservoir. We've been getting...
Speaking on behalf of the Friends of the Pool and Park Foundation, Heather DePriest, Foundation President, reported that work on the Chinook City Pool will begin on August 1. Not only will the pool close for the season on that day, but the public should be aware that equipment will be staged in the area throughout the fall for as long as weather permits and Phase A of the project continues. In order for the work to commence, the City approved a bid submitted by Corland Construction, a company...
Wallace McRae of Rosebud County died this past week. One of Montana’s great cowboy poets, McRae has received the Montana Book of the Year award, the Montana Governor’s Award for the Arts, was nominated by President Clinton to serve on the National Council of the Arts, was listed by the Missoulian in 1999 as number 42 in the Most Influential Montanans of the Century, and was Inducted into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame. Below is one of his many fine poems: Things of Intrinsic Worth Remember that sandrock on Emmells Crick Where Dad carved his na...
be selected for the Branded Bonanza competition this weekend, July 4-6, in Nampa, Idaho, is what Scofield describes as "kind of a funny, long story." Scofield confessed that she and her family own a "hobby farm." So, this past February, when her daughter suggested she wanted a donkey, Scofield said, "I've always kind of wanted a young jenny that was brown." With her daughter's interests in alignment with her own, Scofield brought up the topic with a friend who trains mustangs. "She told me...
Blaine County Library Monday Beat the Heat Movies at 1:30 p.m., Teen Scene (grade 7-12) at 5:30-6:30. Tuesday Story Time at 10:30. Wednesday Summer Reading Program at 1:30. LEGO Club Thursday at 1:30 Harlem Library The challenge for July is to read a book with fireworks or stars on the cover. Summer Reading weekly programs include Storytime for ages 0-5 on Tuesdays at 10 A.M., Summer STEAM for elementary students on Wednesdays at 1 P.M. and Lego Club for all ages on Thursdays at 4 P.M. The library will be closed July 4 in observance of...
That’s the cheer that carried the Hi-Line United 14U soccer team to their state competition in Great Falls a couple of weekends ago. The tournament was the climax to a season of growing together as a team through their various wins and losses, sweaty practices, and coach’s reassuring critiques and skill-building drills. The state competition was also their final opportunity to face off with a tough, physical team in a rivalry that had been building over the past couple of months. As it turned out, this rival team was the first team Hi-Line U wo...
Hello From the Chinook Senior Center Here we are in July, celebrating our FREEDOM, paid for by generations before us. This is our Independence Day, for which we still have and hold dear. We still fly and salute our flag. We still pledge allegiance to our flag. We still honor those who provided these freedoms for us. We still thank our Veterans. It is still “One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Hallelujah! PLEASE NOTE OUR SCHEDULE CHANGES, AS THE SENIOR SWING HAD TO BE RESCHEDULED, WHICH WILL PLACE OUR SCHEDULE A...
The library will be closed Friday July 4th in observance of Independence Day. There is still plenty of time to sign up for the Summer Reading Program. We will be extending our summer programming to August 14th, due to the pool closing the end of July. This will give kids something to do during the first two weeks of August. Kids earn prizes for every program they attend and for every hour they read. They will also receive an ice cream certificate for every 10 hours they read! We thank Johanna Eggleston for donating those certificates. Just a re...
The Chinook Lions Swim Team competed at the Columbia Falls meet this past weekend, where Kolton DePriest had an outstanding performance, earning High Point honors by taking first in all three of his events. Congratulations, Kolton! Boys 15-19 Age Group • 50 Meter Freestyle – 28.27 (1st) • 100 Meter Breaststroke – 1:21.74 (1st) • 100 Meter Freestyle – 1:06.19 (1st)...
Shelby Edward (Ed) Smith passed away December 29, 2024, in Havre, Montana. Ed was born on October 28, 1959, at Fort Ord California to Henry A Smith, Jr and Amy Belle (Kelley) Smith. He was preceded in death by his father Henry A Smith, Jr and his brother Fredrick A Smith. His paternal grandparents Henry A Smith, Sr and Bessie May Smith. His maternal grandparents Marion F and June Amy Kelley. He is survived by his common law wife Jodi Teske of Havre. His sons, Timothy Smith (Shalonn) of Spokane,... Full story
Kenneth David Jensen, 81, of Chinook, Montana unexpectedly passed on June 21, 2025, while performing the farm/ranch work he loved, with his devoted labrador Charlie at his side. He is best known as "Mr. Jensen" among hundreds of students whose lives he touched as a dedicated high school business teacher. David (better known as Dave) was born December 4th, 1943, to Kenneth and Leona Jensen. He was raised on the family farm near Zurich with his sister Linda and brother Steve and attended Zurich El... Full story
Mary J. Wilson Anderson passed away on June 14, 2025. Mary was born on July 23, 1937 in Hettinger, ND to Tolof and Florence Wilson. She was raised in Lodgepole, SD and Cole Harbor, ND, graduating from high school in 1954. She earned her B.A. degree at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. In 1958 she moved to Chinook where she taught typing, shorthand and bookkeeping at Chinook High. After marrying Ralph Morris, they moved to Troy, MT. In 1966, he was killed in an automobile accident. She then... Full story
Debbie Chapman Olson - Memorial Services to be held at Kuper Memorial Cemetery August 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM with a reception to follow at Chinook Senior Center. In lieu of flowers a memorial donation may be made to Chinook Senior Center in Debbie’s honor.... Full story
Johannas William Brown, 45, passed away Thursday June 19th, 2025 while hiking in Glacier National Park. Johannas was born October 18, 1979 to Lorraine (Steve) Don and Calvin Brown in Havre, MT and joined his big sister Leila. Eventually he would have two little sisters Juletta and Breck Don. Johannas lived a full and adventurous life. His childhood was spent living along the hi-line. First in Havre until the age of five. He spent the next year in Fort Peck as Lorraine was teaching in Frazier.... Full story
History of Independence Day When the initial battles in the Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775, few colonists desired complete independence from Great Britain, and those who did were considered radical. By the middle of the following year, however, many more colonists had come to favor independence, thanks to growing hostility against Britain and the spread of revolutionary sentiments such as those expressed in the bestselling pamphlet “Common Sense,” published by Thomas Paine in early 1776. On June 7, when the Continental Congress met...
For the first 15 or 20 years after the Declaration was written, people didn’t celebrate it much on any date. It was too new and too much else was happening in the young nation. By the 1790s, a time of bitter partisan conflicts, the Declaration had become controversial. One party, the Democratic-Republicans, admired Jefferson and the Declaration. But the other party, the Federalists, thought the Declaration was too French and too anti-British, which went against their current policies. By 1817, John Adams complained in a letter that America s...
Background: War of 1812 Simmering anger at Britain for interfering in American trade, impressing U.S. sailors into the Royal Navy and standing in the way of westward expansion led the United States to declare war in June 1812. With British forces distracted by the country’s ongoing war with France, the United States scored some encouraging early victories in the War of 1812. But in August 1814, British troops invaded Washington, D.C. and set fire to the White House, the Capitol and other government buildings. The Royal Navy then trained its s...
