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BILLINGS – A white-tailed deer killed last month northeast of Huntley tested positive on initial tests for chronic wasting disease (CWD). It marks an expansion of the area where the disease has been found. All previous south central Montana cases were confined to eastern Carbon County. The two-year-old buck was humanely dispatched by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks after it exhibited symptoms of CWD. Initial tests run on laboratory samples sent to Colorado State University confirmed that the deer suffered from CWD. As a result, FWP will e...
Congressman Greg Gianforte visited the Winnett High School on Friday, Oct. 4. He met with staff and students and took questions on a variety of topics....
PLEASE JOIN US AS WE CELEBRATE JOHN LIGGETT’S 100TH BIRTHDAY THERE WILL BE AN OPEN HOUSE OCTOBER 13TH AT THE SENIOR CENTER COMMONS 11 A.M. TO 2 P.M. A LIGHT LUNCH WILL BE SERVED...
After six months of contracting with insurance companies, Roundup Family Pharmacy is finally able to process most major insurance plans, including CVS Caremark, Aetna, and SilverScript Plans. Roundup Family Pharmacy has been waiting since they opened in April for Caremark to finalize their insurance contract. Last week Caremark finalized the contract and now all Caremark and SilverScript plans available to be processed at Roundup Family Pharmacy. All Aetna plans can now be processed as well, with the exception of one of their plans....
The MUD campaign is an annual fundraising event bringing together several local non-profit organizations that seek to better the community and its citizens through community service, family activities, education and assistance. The MUD Campaign is beginning this week and will run until December 31st. Contributions may be made at any time during the year, however, any money received after the December 31st deadline will be applied to next year’s campaign. Contributions may be designated for a particular agency or made undesignated, which will be...
The Melstone Area Foundation (MAF) has been notified that the digitizing of Melstone's newspapers has been completed. Interested persons may now go online to montananewspapers.org and read all the available editions from 1911 through 1939. A search for a particular name or topic can be performed. Some of Melstone's newspapers were already on microfilm. Through a recent grant from Montana Humanities for the process of microfilming the remaining issues and a grant from the Montana History Foundation for the digitizing step, the Montana...
Facing Discouragement Things are good, aren't they? Yes, in many respects, they are. I have noticed that there are a lot of people that I encounter that are having some significant problems in their lives. That is a part of life. How you go through the hard times may depend upon how you view God. I'm starting the book of Daniel in my Sunday morning messages, and it occurred to me that this book gives us an understanding of God that should encourage us as we pass through the trials of life. Daniel gives us insight into an essential aspect of who...
For over a decade, TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada Corp, has been striving to build the Keystone XL pipeline. They have diligently obtained permits in every state along the planned and alternative routes, studied the potential impacts of the project, and taken every possible measure to ensure the safety of the environment and the communities along the route. Despite these efforts, time and again they have been faced with baseless challenges from the environmental community. Most recently these challenges have taken the form of a...
“Our nation was founded on the idea that our rights do not come from government, but from God,” said Donald Trump, before the United Nations September 23, 2019. “Regrettably, the freedom enjoyed in America is rare in the world.” He explained that 80% of the world do not have freedom of religion and instead face religious persecution. “Today, with one clear voice, the U.S. calls on the nations of the world to end religious persecution,” Trump said. “As President, protecting religious freedom is one of my highest priorities, and always has be...
Americans pay more for our prescription drugs than other people do -- half again as much as Canadians or Germans, more than twice as much as Greeks or Italians. In recent years, those costs have become a major issue in the political debate over health care. Proposals to address drug prices range from allowing Americans to buy their drugs from abroad, to allowing government health programs like Medicare to directly negotiate lower prices, to having the government itself manufacture generic drugs. One suggestion I don't see very often is...
Susie (Storer) Schoen passed away August 23, 2019 in Fremont, California after a long battle with cancer. She gave it a gallant fight to the end. Susie was born in Billings, Montana, on September 21,1953, and lived for a time on a ranch near Roundup, MT before moving into town. In 1964 Robert (Bob) Storer moved the family to Winnett, MT. Susie graduated from Winnett High School in 1970 and married Robert Busenbark that summer and moved to Bozeman, to attend Montana State University.After graduation from MSU, Susie and Bob moved back to Winnett...
(BILLINGS, Mont.) – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana/Dakotas raised over $340,000 in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held online September 24. Nearly 50 percent of the revenue from the sale will go to the states where the oil and gas activity occurs – in this case Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota – while the rest will go to the U.S. Treasury. For this sale, BLM offered 13 parcels covering just over 7,800 acres in Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota for oil and gas leasing through the competitive online auction. There...
There’s no doubt that managing critters in the landscape can be a challenge especially as food supplies start to dwindle. If you are battling with rabbits, deer, groundhogs or other wildlife, don't let down your guard as the growing season begins to wind down. Be proactive. Start before they get into the habit of dining on your landscape. It is easier to keep them away than break the dining habit. Fence them out. Fencing is the best defense against most wildlife. A four feet tall fence around a small garden will keep out rabbits. Secure the bot...
Montana Shakespeare in the Schools will enter its 27th season with a tour of “Romeo and Juliet” beginning Oct. 4. The play will be performed before almost 12,000 students in communities throughout Montana and Wyoming, and several public performances will also be held. The 10-week tour will run through mid-December and is the first of two educational outreach programs offered during the academic year by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, which is based in Montana State University’s College of Arts and Architecture. Montana Shakes!, a progr...
Annual Roundup Day Celebration Held Saturday, October 5 at the Community Center Sandra Jones, Roundup Mayor, has been installed as President of the Montana League of Cities & Towns at their annual conference held last week in Billings. The League represents 127 cities and towns in Montana. It is an advisory board that provides a united, legislative voice that advocates cooperation and improvement between municipal officers, mayors for example, and State and Federal governments. Without the...
The head of U.S. military operations in Central and South America warned Friday that Russian and Chinese influence in the region is expanding with the goal of undercutting Washington’s interests and alliances. “They’re there. They’re present, and they’re working for their national interests in ways that are 100 percent counter to the longterm stability in the region,” Adm. Craig S. Faller, commander of the Pentagon’s U.S. Southern Command, told reporters at a breakfast meeting in Washington. Russia is trying to “hang on” to some of the tradi...
COMMISSIONER’S AGENDA OCTOBER 7th, 2019 8:30 Call to order. Pledge of Allegiance Approval of Agenda Approval of minutes Commissioner Board information Refuse property Old business Extension Office and Fairgrounds repairs Discuss the County’s next move on Flood Plain Violation Policy for claims Accounting Audit Grants Rural Development/Commons sidewalks NW Energy Audit EDA Supplemental Funding for 2018/2-19 Disasters. CDBG Planning Grants 9:00 Lorie Jett Bids -Commons windows & waterline, Complex hydrant, doors and windows 9:30 Road Tra...
The Musselshell Valley Friends of NRA Committee would like to send out a heartfelt thank you to all of the people and businesses that made our 4th Annual Friends of NRA Fundraiser a big success. We were so grateful for the use of the Community Center. Cowboys Restaurant from Huntley catered a delicious Prime Rib dinner and Grand Bar’s Jackie and Michelle handled all our drink requests. We always count on people outside of our committee to assist with the games and raffles, and they did an a...
Not one, not two, not three, but FOUR (4!) ranches this week, all in the vicinity of Cohagen, MT. Quiz Question 1: Where is Cohagen? All true Montanans should know. Answer: Southeast of Jordan on Highway 59 and near Little Dry Creek, a queer name for a body of water. Quiz Question 2: How did Cohagen get its name? Unless you do some web cheating, this will stump you, for sure. Answer: (We cheated) In 1905 the settlement had no name but somehow had a post office. Before zip codes began, July 1,...
(Helena, MT) – Montana State Parks (stateparks.mt.gov) is pleased to announce that applications for Montana Public Lands Field Trip Grants will be accepted October 6 through October 27, 2019. The $200 grants may be used for school field trips to federal and state public lands taking place between January 2 and August 30, 2020. The grant money is aimed at covering transportation-related costs with an emphasis on assisting Montana elementary students who are underserved in their ability to access public lands for outdoor education. For 2020, t...
Elena Nunez (10) extends to pass the ball in Saturday's junior varsity game in Grass Range. Elena is a twelfth grade Spanish exchange student in Winnett living with the Zimmerman family. Also pictured are assistant coach Laramey Degner and Shelby Schweers (24). The Rangers won the JV match 3-1 over Fromberg. Grass Range-Winnett also won the varsity match 25-21, 23-25, 25-11, 25-13....
September 16, 2019 The meeting was opened at 8:30 by Commissioner Borner. Commissioner Berry and Commissioner Carlson were present. Maintenance Supervisor Jett and Mike Breeding met with the Commissioners with a personnel issue. Maintenance Supervisor Jett gave her weekly report to the Commissioners. Ms. Jett gave the Commissioners the bids and her recommendations for work at the County Complex Building and The Musselshell County Central Commons. High Prairie Plumbing to replace the wall mount faucet at the Commons, Pioneer plumbing will put in...
BOZEMAN – Thanks to a cooperative effort between faculty in the Montana State University College of Agriculture and a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the inaugural Summit Celebrating Women in Agriculture will take place on the MSU campus on Saturday, Oct. 12. The summit will run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Norm Asbjornson Hall Room 165 and is free and open to the public. Irene Grimberg, research associate professor and Deputy Coordinator for the Western Sustainable Agr...
HELENA— The Office of Public Instruction has released Montana’s 2018-2019 school year statewide assessment results for elementary and middle school students. The Smarter Balanced Assessment is used to show proficiency in math and English language arts (ELA) for students in grades 3 through 8. The most recent results showed little variation in either category. For grades 3 through 5, the proficiency rates are 49.8% in ELA and 44.7% in math. That is down from 50.5% proficiency in ELA and up from 44.4% proficiency in math in 2018. For grades 6 t...
“Montana State University-Northern is pleased to announce that our enrollment is up this semester,” commented Jim Potter, Director of University Relations. “This is the first time that we have been up in several years, when most of the campuses in the state are currently experiencing a decline,” said Potter. MSU-Northern reported today that they have 1086 students attending classes, which is up over last year’s fall enrollment of 1082. MSU-Northern is enjoying significant growth in its education, nursing, and trade programs. Elementary Educatio...
