Articles from the August 25, 2023 edition
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2023 Carter County Fair awards
Ag Education Grand Champion, Heidi LaBree Auction Cake Grand Champion, Lily Schallenberger Reserve Champion, Matthew Claeys Beef Project Grand Champion, Selah Johnston Reserve Champion, Colyn Higgins...
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First two days of Fallon homicide trial complete
First day of Fallon homicide trial focuses on night of the incident Witness testimony and evidence largely focused on reconstructing the scene of the crime on the first day of the first trial related...
Back to school
Students attending Ekalaka Public Schools headed back to their respective classrooms last Thursday for the 2023-2024 school year. Total enrollment this year, as of July 25th, is 130 students. There...
4-H news
submitted by Suri Johnston, Reporter The Gumbo Gophers had their monthly meeting on August 2nd in Alzada. Roll call was "are you ready for fair?". We decided the slogan for our float at the fair...
Geraldine "Geri" Marie (Welch) Sanchez
Geraldine "Geri" Marie (Welch) Sanchez passed away on July 15, 2023, at the age of 86. She was born on November 20, 1936, in Ekalaka to Delbert "Jerry" Welch and Eleonora Frye. She started her career...
Be aware of Montana property tax rebate scams
Montana taxpayers applying for a property tax rebate should be on the lookout for suspicious or fraudulent activity. The best way for Montana taxpayers to avoid scams is to apply for the property tax rebate online at GetMyRebate.mt.gov as soon as...
Cooking in the West
Going back into the classroom has forced me to start going through the tubs of teaching materials that I have collected over 41 years in education. I have dusty tubs of outdated teaching materials that I could not possibly part with when I stopped...
Conversations with God
Hello God, it’s me, Mara: You know Lord, there are ‘rules’ everywhere you look, everywhere you go, everything you try to do, there always seems to be rules. On the road, at the border, and at work, there are rules, regulations, forms to be...
CAPITOLETTER
The vicious mosquitoes attacked in full force, this week at Capitol and on Tie Creek. Dick and Erma Albert went to Rapid City on Wednesday, and stayed over for an appointment on Thursday morning. On Friday, they went to the Old Timer’s Picnic at...
Montana's unemployment rate below 3% for 21st consecutive month
Governor Greg Gianforte recently announced Montana’s unemployment rate in July is below 3% for the 21st consecutive month. The only other time Montana’s unemployment rate was below 3% was for three months in 2007, according to the U.S. Bureau of...
Proposed ballot initiatives would mean big changes for Montana elections
A coalition of former Republican officials and a longtime third-party candidate are pushing a pair of constitutional amendment ballot initiatives for the 2024 cycle that would fundamentally alter Montana’s elections in what they describe as an...
