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2-06-2023 The Board of Carter County Commissioners met in regular session on Monday, November 06, 2023, in the Carter County Commission Board Meeting Room of the Carter County Courthouse at 214 Park Street in Ekalaka, Montana. Mike Watkins, Vice Chairman and Pamela Castleberry, member were present. Rod Tauck, Chairman; was absent. The meeting was called to order at 9 a.m. by Vice-Chairman. Commissioner Watkins made the motion to request that Amanda Williams the Fallon / Carter Extension Agent work in the Carter County...
Sunday's close of the deer and elk general season saw relatively mild weather and a mixed bag for hunter numbers and harvest rates at check stations around southeast Montana. Hysham The number of hunters passing through the Hysham rest area check station was typical for the closing weekend of the general deer and elk season. A total of 68 parties (average = 69) and 123 hunters (average = 134) passed through. The hunter harvest rate was 14 percent below the 10-year average for...
November 27, 2023 Last week, Cody, Kellan and Carson Odell visited at Karen’s, so there was no time for her to write the news. She is hoping to catch up on what was missed, this week. Dick and Erma Albert had a quiet week. They didn’t even get to the Hills for shopping. On Friday, they went to the Senior Citizen dinner, and Bobbie served delicious Salisbury steak. Father Brian had brought a friend to the dinner, too. They celebrated Eileen Westers’s birthday, and had wonderful chocolate cake. On Sunday, Dick and Erma went...
Hello God, it’s me, Mara: You know, Lord, it was most interesting to recently read a devotional about never being forgotten. The gal wrote how her kids wanted her to start playing the piano again; she mentioned that she had not played the piano for two decades. She was surprised, when she sat at the piano, that she even remembered, then feeling brave, she played seven different scales that she’d learned by heart, years ago. She mentioned that those years of practicing so long ago, had imprinted the notes and technique so deep...
“It takes a village to raise a child,” is is an Igbo and Yoruba proverb that exists in many different African languages, and we in rural America have borrowed the phrase. This proverb became reality in our village a couple weeks ago when my guest columnist, Gayle Grosfield Callinan, encountered my grandson Jasper on the sidewalk in front of our store. To help her overcome the trauma of that encounter, I encouraged her through my tears of laughter to write it down in the following guest column. As one of my former stu...
Liz passed away on November 24, 2023 at Mountain Plaza Assisted Living. She fought a hard battle with heart failure the past nineteen months. Liz was born December 13, 1935 on the Snow Creek Ranch near Ekalaka, Montana to parents Leonard and Mary (Wheat) Ward. She was the second youngest of eleven children. She graduated from Carter County High School in Ekalaka in 1953. Liz was very proud of her Catholic faith. She was a member of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in...
Mid-Rivers Communications is proud to announce the recipients of its 2023 Education Technology Grants. Grants are awarded to educational and non-profit entities with an educational mission to benefit members and customers in the Mid-Rivers service area. Montana law requires that the cooperative’s Fund for Education, funded with unclaimed capital credit dollars, be used for educational purposes. Grants were awarded to 12 applicants totaling $80,000. • $10,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of Richland County for virtual reality equ...
A federal judge issued an order November 30th blocking Montana's first-of-its-kind ban on social media platform TikTok, preventing the ban from taking effect as scheduled on Jan. 1. The ban, which passed this year's Legislature as Senate Bill 419, would have barred TikTok from making its app available to Montana users. By blocking the ban while a legal challenge moves forward, U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy signals that he believes the company and other plaintiffs...
The Fallon-Carter County Extension Office is taking orders for Montana certified seed potatoes. The three main varieties that will be ordered are Yukon Gem, a yellow fleshed all purpose potato; Norland Dark Red, a medium sized potato great for boiling, frying and salads; and Huckleberry Gold, has purple skin with yellow flesh. Huckleberry Gold is resistant to growth cracks and hollow heart. Please visit holbrookseedpotatoes.com to see a description of the disease free Montana...
The following was dropped off at the Eagle years ago. It had been long forgotten until a recent, chance conversation in Billings. It was given to the Eagle by Ms. Mariellen Neudeck, eldest daughter of Marie and Alexander MacDonald. The text contains a chapter from an unpublished autobiography, "Montana Woman," written by Marie Peterson MacDonald. MacDonald was born on February 24, 1913 to Swedish immigrants who homesteaded near Great Falls. She attended the University of...
A group of local volunteers recently started up an AAU wrestling program in Ekalaka. The group of kids shown here started wrestling for the season at the end of November. Currently, the team practices two nights per week at St. Joan of Arc Parish Hall in Ekalaka and one night per week in Baker. Wrestling tournaments start the first week in January....
