Articles from the January 15, 2021 edition
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Blood drive scheduled for Jan. 20 in Ekalaka
What are your New Year’s Resolutions? Vitalant and Darlene Carter-Rose encourage you to help meet the urgent need for blood and platelets by resolving to give blood this year starting in January, which is National Blood Donor Month. The next blood d...
No public health nurse or county health director leads to closure of services
The Carter County Board of Health recently informed residents of the current situation of the county’s public health department. Due to the vacancy of a public health nurse and county health director, the services made available through Carter County...
New RN at Dahl Memorial
Twenty-four-year-old Broc Patterson is the newest employee at Dahl Memorial. He worked his first shift at the hospital on January 5. Patterson grew up twenty minutes north of Salt Lake City in...
Dahl Memorial working with Montana Cancer Control Program
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness month. Cervical cancer was once the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. Now, thanks to preventative screenings and the HPV vaccination, it is the most preventable of all female cancers....
McInerney named on CSC's Dean's List
Chadron State College recently announced the names of 332 students who qualified for the institution’s Fall 2020 Dean's List with at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale. To qualify, students must be enrolled in 12 credit hours of c...
Visitation policy changing at Dahl
A recent drop in county-wide COVID-19 positivity rate has led Dahl Memorial to change their visitation policy. The policy now allows family and friends who are over the age of 10 to visit at one of two different time slots. A letter from Dahl Memoria...
Extension to offer 'MontGuide Mondays'
Individuals are invited to join “MontGuide Mondays,” a virtual discussion group, similar to a book club, during January and February 2021. The sessions’ hosts are Marsha Goetting, MSU Extension family economics specialist, in addition to sever...
By A good livestock guardian dog
I grew up on a sheep operation with around 1200 head of ewes. After leaving the area and going to school I started to learn more about the problems that livestock operations have with predation of their livestock. I found that my fellow students in...
Sue Ann Gundlach
Sue Ann Gundlach, age 88, passed away peacefully on Dec. 18, 2020, at 4:28 p.m. She was surrounded by her family in Mesa, Arizona, where she resided the last three years with her daughter and...
Letter to the editor
To my Ekalaka friends: Since leaving Ekalaka last February, so much has happened, I hardly know where to start. First, I would like to give thanks to all who helped my family make this move go as smoothly as it did. Whether it was helping clear out...
Conversations with God
Hello God, it’s me, Mara: You know, Lord, as a child, I can imagine that any one of us just loved it when our Mom would read to us. We would sit on Mama’s lap and listen to every word. As she read, we would examine the details of every picture and...
Dogs drop weekend contests
The CCHS Bulldogs had a big weekend at home, playing three games in three days against conference opponents. Blue got down early against Melstone on Thursday and never could complete a comeback. They...
Lady Blue goes 2-1 over weekend
The Lady Bulldogs got off to a bad start against a tough conference opponent in the Melstone Lady Broncs last Thursday at home. Blue went down 3-22 at the end of the first quarter and eventually lost...
