Articles from the October 9, 2020 edition
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Big Mac's Pumpkin Patch
Big Mac's Pumpkin Patch, located about twenty-three miles north of Ekalaka and 5 miles west of Willard, is open for fun and adventure for the 2020 season and the pumpkins are growing! In its second...
Developmental screening, Oct. 20
Ekalaka Public Schools will be hosting a developmental screening for children aged 0-5 years on Tuesday, October 20, from 12:30 to 4 p.m. in the grade school gym. This screening will help parents gain information about their child’s development a...
Chamber will meet Thursday
October’s Carter County Chamber of Commerce meeting will take place on Thursday, October 8, beginning at 5:50 p.m. inside Wagon Wheel Café. The meeting will start with a business news round table. Afterwards, an update on the 2021 chamber sp...
Be a winner with wool
Make it With Wool district contests around the state of Montana will be taking place in October and November this year. The District 6/7 contest will start at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 1 at the Sleep Inn & Suites in Miles City. Entries for the...
Drive-thru flu vaccinations available
This year, Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association is hosting drive-thru flu vaccination clinics. To date, four clinics have already taken place. Three more are still available, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on...
Don't be left out in the cold
Are you having trouble with winter heating bills? Southeast Electric Cooperative offers energy assistance in conjunction with the Action for Eastern Montana LIEAP program. Assistance is for the cost of your heating, which may be propane or...
Resurfacing project for Highway 323 tentatively scheduled for 2022
The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) recently announced a proposal to resurface about 9.5 miles of Highway 323, southeast of Ekalaka. The public is invited to comment. The project begins...
Miriam Capro
Miriam (Grandma Gus) Ruth (Scoles) Capra passed away at the age of 90, at the Powder River Manor surrounded by her family on September 26, 2020. She was born on July 2, 1930 in Baker, MT to Alvy Merle...
Lowell Cordell
Camp Crook | Lowell P. Cordell, 74, passed away Sunday, October 4, 2020 in Camp Crook. Visitation will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, October 9, at Camp Crook Area Community Center....
Cooking in the West
I really am not a Tweeter. In fact, I do not have a Twitter account, but I do love to write fake Tweets. In fact, there is a special holiday coming up that positively screams for fake Tweets. Columbus Day is my favorite holiday of the year. It is...
Conversations with God
Hello God, it’s me, Mara: You know, Lord, the wind! Is it forever the Wind? It’s hard to have an excess of praise as the windy air crisps the skin and cracks the lips. It’s not quite that bad right now, but one day it surely felt like the foehn...
From the desk of Fr. Tobin
October, 2020 - I have been inspired to write a piece on Mary the mother of Jesus Christ the Son of God. It is one topic Protestants don’t like to talk about. But Catholics love to talk about it. When Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth, she cried o...
FWP Region 7 offers new doe/fawn antelope license, valid only in two hunting districts
With the antelope rifle season a couple weeks away, many folks are gearing up to go afield. There is a new harvest opportunity starting this year: hunters who drew the Region 7 either-sex (007-20) or...
Sauers graduates from BSC in Spring 2020
Nash Sauers, Ekalaka, Mont., graduated from Bismarck State College with an Associate in Applied Science degree in Process Plant Technology during the college's 80th commencement ceremony on May 15,...
Lady Bulldogs suffer loss to Spartans
CCHS Volleyball lost a match to the Baker Spartans in Baker last Saturday. The Bulldogs lost the first set 15-25, the second 8-25, and the fourth 18-25. They were able to win a tightly contested...
Masks, cleaning up part of new Wild Game Feed look
courtesy of Fallon County Times The 17th annual Stan Wagner Memorial Game Feed will be held Nov. 14 in the Livestock Barn at the Fallon County Fairgrounds in Baker. The game feed recently got approval from the Fallon County Health Department, as...
Statewide numbers
As of Tuesday, October 6, Montana reports a cumulative total of 15,347 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 504 new cases since yesterday, 4,983 active cases, and 10,172 patients considered recovered....