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Getting to know your school board candidates
Four individuals have filed for two open positions on the Ekalaka Public Schools Unified Board of Trustees. Both openings are three-year terms for candidates from Elementary District No. 15 and High...
Climate fix or pollution pipeline?
Ridge resident Dan Dinstel remembers his introduction to the Snowy River project, a proposal to inject 150 million tons of carbon dioxide thousands of feet below southeastern Montana's sagebrush...
Settling in
The Carter County Extension Office (formerly Fallon/Carter Extension) is up and running. Extension agent Amanda Williams, who served as the agent for the combined agency, has set up her office in the...
Dedicated service
Longtime Ekalaka Public Schools board trustee Helen King received a plaque for her years of service to the school at the unified board's regular meeting on April 9th. King served on the board as a...
County developing a growth policy
Carter County has received planning funds from the Montana Department of Commerce Community Development Division to update its County Growth Policy. County Commissioners have authorized the Carter County Planning Board to update the Growth Policy on...
Local FCCLA students attend state leadership conference
Kendall Kittelmann, Brynn Loehding, Natalie Foxley, Kendra Tooke, Nicole O'Connell, Kendra Matthews, Danica Shepherd, Tracy Wilson, Kamryn Miller and Jillian McGraw attended the Family, Career and...
Ringling scholarship stipends support welding, museum partnership
submitted by Carter County Museum Carter County Museum recently announced that Ethan Frye and Cole Rost have been selected for two project stipends for the Big Sky Seaway exhibition for the Spring 202...
EKALAKA TOWN COUNCIL MINUTES
Town Office, 103 N Main Street March 6th, 2024 PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON HB 355 STATE-LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERSHIP ACT OF 2023 PRIORITY PROJECT LIST 1) Call Public Hearing Meeting to Order a) Roll Call Council Mayor Buck...
March BARK Awards
Ekalaka Elementary School Behavioral BARK award winners for the month of March are shown above. BARK is an acronym for Be Respectable, Act Responsible, Remember Safety and Kindness Matters. In March...
Miss Montana Volunteer
On March 28th, Miss Montana Volunteer, Grace Peoples of Wibaux, traveled to Ekalaka Elementary where she visited and read with students. People's platform is to encourage youth to be active and get...
Local elections take shape
Carter County voters will need to head to the polls to cast their ballot in the upcoming primary election on June 4th. Locally, republican incumbent Tracey D. Walker was the only individual who filed...
Three more file for school board
By last Thursday's deadline to file, four individuals had filed for two open three-year terms on the Ekalaka Public Schools Unified Board of Trustees. Both of the positions are for Elementary...
Kindergarten roundup
Ekalaka Public Schools is hosting a kindergarten roundup on Tuesday, April 16 for any student expecting to attend kindergarten in the fall of 2024. Please bring your future kindergartener to the main office at 8 a.m. along with the child’s birth c...
Carter County High School and Ekalaka Junior High third quarter honor rolls
HS A HONOR ROLL (3.5 GPA or higher) Braxton Bucholz Brynn Loehding Chace Loehding Clay Rost Corlan Laughery Danica Shepherd Ethan Frye Jadyn McGraw Jillian McGraw Justin Wyatt Melton Kamryn Miller...
Shakespeare at Ekalaka Public Schools
Born from aspirations to bring the timeless tales of William Shakespeare directly to rural and under-served communities, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks has been enriching the lives of people in...
School District No. 15 and High School District No. 3 mail ballot election nears
By press time on Wednesday, only one individual, incumbent Samantha Wright, had filed in the upcoming election for trustee on the Ekalaka Public Schools Unified board. Wright filed for one of two...
Kapptie signs contract
In a split vote, the Ekalaka Elementary District No. 15 and Carter County High School Unified Board of Trustees moved to offer a superintendent/principal contract to candidate James Kapptie at a...
CARTER COUNTY COMMISSION PROCEEDINGS
2-29-2024 The Board of Carter County Commissioners met in regular session on Thursday, February 29, 2024, in the Carter County Commission Board Meeting Room of the Carter County Courthouse at 214 Park Street in Ekalaka, Montana. Rod Tauck, Chairman...
All about reptiles
submitted by Mrs. Mardee Guyer A group of high school zoology students from Carter County High School recently conducted educational sessions on reptiles for younger learners. Led by science teacher...
Veterans Memorial at Perso Park final list
This list will be sent to the engraver in one week. If there are misspellings or corrections, they can still be addressed before the list is sent off. There will be opportunities down the road to add...
BLM extends sequestration project comment period to April 17
The Bureau of Land Management has extended the public comment period on the environmental assessment for the Denbury Carbon Solutions, LLC proposal to construct and operate a CO2 sequestration...
Public meetings on school election, levies
The Ekalaka Public Schools Unified Board of Trustees will soon be hosting public meetings about the upcoming school election and levies for both Carter County High School and Ekalaka Elementary District #15 that will be on the ballot. The first of...
Winners of statewide Montana Ag in Color drawing contest announced
Earlier this month, the Montana Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) announced the winners of the Montana Youth Agriculture Literacy program drawing contest. "Montana Ag in Color" was developed in...
School receives grant for library
Ekalaka Public Schools recently received a grant in the amount of $898 from the Montana Masonic Foundation for new iPads at the school library. Freemasons Pat Strickland, Doug Bonsell, and Marty...
New WIC office opens in Carter County
Carter County Public Health is proud to open a new local WIC office in Ekalaka. The Special Supplement Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, known as WIC, has proudly supported Montana f...