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Mayor Stiles Resigns
Mayor Stiles told “The Mountaineer” that he is resigning from being the Mayor of Big Sandy. Stiles had run for a second term of Mayor and said he would continue to be the Mayor until his new term starts at which time the Council would have to fin...
"Visions of Christmas Past" Big Sandy Christmas Stroll News Griswold Decorating day
Chamber of Commerce people have heard that more and more Big Sandy is getting a very good reputation for having many Christmas lights each Christmas Season. That all starts soon now with the Griswold Christmas Party. That is an occasion for business...
Bats outnumber ghosts in Glacier's grand hotels
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks declared October 24 to 31 as National Bat Week. Bats are kind of like snakes and things that crawl on the ground. They have a bad reputation. People know they can carry rabies and that does not help their general well...
Bear Paw Meanderings
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and for many it is the time to head to Grandmother’s house or Aunt Margie’s house or invite a dozen people to your own house. I can remember when I was a small child around eight or so, I got a new sister and...
Senior Center News
Contact Senior Citizen Cooks at 378-2405. For orders to go, please order them before 10:30am. Menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, November 8 creamed chicken over biscuits, vegetables, salad and dessert. Thursday, November 9 patty mel...
Pioneer News
Wednesday, November 8 - FFA Business/Ag Days in Fort Benton from 8am to 1:30pm. Wednesday, November 8 - FFA leaves for John Deere Ag. Expo at Bozeman, Montana. Wednesday, November 8 - Parent/teacher conferences from 4 to 7pm. Thursday, November 9 -...
Fort Assinniboine, another view on this former military base
Talk to old timers about Fort Assinniboine and the first thing you learn is how to spell Assinniboine (3 n's if you please). The next thing you learned was how shocked the towns around Fort...
Christmas Stroll News: Craft Show
Hold on to your hats and don't buy any Christmas presents until after the Christmas Stroll Craft Show which is held in conjunction with the Christmas Stroll on December 2, 2017. There are all kinds...
Guest Interview: Crystal Geyer
This week's guest interview is with Crystal Geyer. Crystal runs the Senior Citizen's Center with a lot of help from her cooks she says but going into this holiday season, she has lots more on her...
Bear Paw Meanderings
This is the season for making hot and hearty soups. Yesterday a neighbor brought a vat of clam chowder for my supper. Clam chowder is a soup I do not make from scratch very often. I buy some prepared and add to it. But I love clam chowder and I...
Senior Center News
Birthdays for November include Shane Chauvet, Pam Bold, Dianna Webster, Leo Bitz, Adele Otto, Betty Lou Solberg, Gene Welty, David Schwarzbach, Marianne Brewer and Earl Boettcher. As Glenn Miller and his orchestra play “A String of Pearls” a swi...
Pioneer News
Wednesday, November 1 Juniors and Seniors head to North Star to hear an assembly by Jean DeShaw. Friday, November 3 junior high basketball at Turner Friday, November 4 football quarter final at Bridger at 7 p.m. Saturday, November 4 junior high...
Interview with a Ghost by Presence in an old Haunted House
My name is Lucille. I am a ghost and I don’t like it one little bit. I have just gone around for a lifetime haunting the house I lived in as a child and where I died. It must have been twenty or thirty years after I died that I learned that I could b...
Christmas Stroll upcoming events for the stroll; Buttons
By Robert Lucke The Big Sandy Chamber of Commerce and Marlys Myers are busy getting ready for the annual Big Sandy Christmas Stroll the first weekend in December. This year's theme is "Christmas...
Bear Paw Meanderings
A good Halloween story is one that ends like no one ever suspects it is going to. A case in point is the dreadful Christler murder where Rev. Christler was shot dead by his girl friend in front of his wife at the church rectory where they were...
@ THE JEFF REICHELT MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Don’t forget that Story Hour is running every Wednesday at 10:30. Lego Club is running every second and fourth Friday at 11am. Don’t miss the fun! This week Darlene chose “ANY DREAM WILL DO” by Debbie Macomber. Shay Benson adored her younger brother...
Baumgarn takes Blood Drive Reigns
After thirty years Twila Cline has given up heading blood drives in the Big Sandy area. Rachel Baumgarn and Laci LaBuda have taken over the reins. Last Wednesday, October 12 was the first blood...
Guest Interview: Bob Quinn
"The Mountaineer" introduces a new news story this week. It is called a Guest Interview and features a "Mountaineer" reporter picking up the telephone and calling someone in our phone book and asking...
Bear Paw Meanderings
I can’t help it. It is hunting season, or almost, and I have hunting on my mind. Now, mind you I don’t have shooting an elk or antelope or even a deer raised in alfalfa fields for a couple of years, no, it is not that that I dream about. It is the...
Senior Center News
Contact the Senior Citizen Cooks at 378-2405. Menus usually include an entrée, vegetable, potato, salad, dessert and drink and usually cost $5.00 unless the meal is more costly. Menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, October 18...
Pioneer News
There will be no school for Big Sandy students on October 19 and 20. Teachers will be attending Montana Education Association activities. Saturday, October 21 FFA members visit the pumpkin patch from noon to four pm. The week of October 22 is Red...
2017 Blizzard in October
One of Grandma Moses paintings is titled, "It snows, oh it snows". Those were the operative words around here last week when snow started falling Monday afternoon and by Monday night the power was...
Fire Prevention Week October 8 - 14
This week is Fire Prevention Week. It is a week of celebration all around the United States. And, although we don't celebrate it as such in the Big Sandy area, we do celebrate Chili Feed Night which...
Bear Paw or Bears Paw: No Mystery Here
One of "The Mountaineer" readers, Elaine Thompson, said that she had kept a story from "The Mountaineer" about whether the mountain range to the south of us should be called the Bear Paw Mountains or...
Columbus and the Blackfeet Tribe
One of the puzzling things about living in a state that has seven Indian Reservations in it is what should people be called who live on those reservations? Some suggest calling them Native Americans....