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Articles from the March 11, 2022 edition


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  • Conversations with God

    Updated Mar 10, 2022

    Hello God, it’s me, Mara: You know Lord, it is still March and there is still time in our forecast for some SNOW to come our way! When Snow is falling, we might want to take a minute or two to watch, as falling Snow is rather spellbinding stuff to watch. An unknown author wrote the following about SNOW – so here it is: “A growth process called “coalescence” [combination] is the process of a cloud droplet growing in size [from 1/2500 inch in diameter to 1/125 inch or larger], it is large enough to fall as rain or other for...

  • Lady Bulldogs win Monday challenge game

    Updated Mar 10, 2022

    In a rare Monday challenge game to end an exciting Southern C Basketball Tournament at Miles City, the CCHS Lady Bulldogs defeated the Lady Mustangs of Jordan to secure a spot at the state tournament in Great Falls this weekend. CCHS will kick off their bid at state against the number one team from the north, Roy-Winifred, on Thursday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. The Lady Bulldogs started the divisional tournament with a win over Broadview-Lavina last Wednesday. The 'Dogs had a doub...

  • Letter to the editor

    Updated Mar 10, 2022
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    An Open Letter to the Montana Department of Transportation and the Citizens of Carter County: Ten white crosses visibly line the 36 miles of Highway 7 between Ekalaka and Baker. Five are between mile markers 25 and 18, and five are between mile markers 13 and 1. I’m told the actual number of crosses should be double and the historical number of deaths may be triple that. Those crosses represent family members, friends, and neighbors with names like Ehret, Emswiler, and now, Wahl. No one may know the actual number of deaths t...

  • Cooking in the West

    Susan Metcalf|Updated Mar 10, 2022

    After my column about a full brain ran, I received many priceless responses. First of all, several mathematical geniuses noticed that not only has too much information overfilled my brain, but it also made it dyslexic. It seems that I reversed the 1 and 4 in the tenths and hundredths values of pi (3.141592653589793238.. . which never repeats). Now, I realize this reversal would make a big difference in a mathematical computation of the area or circumference of a circle or the volume of a cylinder, but in case I have to...

  • CARTER COUNTY COMMISSION PROCEEDINGS

    Updated Mar 9, 2022

    2-14-2022 The Board of Carter County Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, February 14, 2022, in the Carter County Commission Board Meeting Room of the Carter County Courthouse at 214 Park Street in Ekalaka, Montana. Rod Tauck, Vice Chair; was present. Steve Rosencranz, Chairman; Mike Watkins; member were absent. There was not a quorum until 1 p.m. for the public Health Board meeting. There were discussions with Commissioner Tauck until such time as the other commissioners called in to the meeting. Road and bridge...

  • Frank LaBree

    Updated Mar 9, 2022

    Frank Sibley LaBree, 94, of Forsyth, MT, passed away on February 22nd. He was born the second child to Charlotte (Lottie) Mulkey and Frank N. LaBree on December 6, 1927, in Ismay, MT. They brought him home with a wagon team using hot rocks to keep him warm for the long trip. He joined his sister, Rosalie, with sisters, Marlee and Janice, to follow. Thus began his life being surrounded by, as Frank would say, "all these damn women." Frank married Jeanne May Strom on September 7...

  • Knights of Columbus free throw contest winners

    Updated Mar 9, 2022

    Each year the Knights of Columbus sponsors a free throw contest for girls and boys ages 9 through 14. The contest takes place in multiple steps. The first step is the council competition in which contestants shoot 15 free throws in a row. Depending on their age and sex, each contestant shoots with a girls or boys ball from either 12 feet or 15 feet. The next step is a district contest where the council winners compete against shooters from other councils in the immediate area. This time each shooter shoots 25 free throws in a...

  • License year opens, big game regs in Region 7 see some changes

    Updated Mar 9, 2022

    The 2022 FWP license year opened March 1, which means sportsmen and sportswomen can buy new hunting and fishing licenses and begin applying for permits and special licenses. The deadline to apply for deer and elk permits and nonresident combination licenses is April 1. Applications for most species – deer, elk, antelope, deer B, elk B, antelope B, moose, sheep, goat, bison, bear, turkey and upper Missouri paddlefish – can be made beginning March 1. Deadlines to apply for permits and special licenses are: • April 1 - Elk and d...

  • Adaptive management workshop

    Updated Mar 9, 2022

    On February 22, Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Carter County Conservation District hosted an adaptive management workshop. Throughout the day there were around forty-five people at Carter County Event Center. Kevin Sedivec, NDSU Professor and Rangeland Management Specialist, came to Ekalaka to speak at the event. Sedivec presented how to adapt management for extreme weather, grazing concepts and his patch-burn grazing study. Several local producers also presented their key management concepts. The workshop...