Articles from the December 9, 2020 edition


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  • How the Grinch stole the Christmas Stroll

    Erik Sietsema|Dec 9, 2020

    “Coronavirus hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason...” After a long year of cancelled school, cancelled homecoming, cancelled Rotary Banquet, and cancelled Chili Feed; 2020 set its grinchy sights on the last major event of the Big Sandy event calendar. The 2020 Christmas Stroll, which is usually scheduled for the first week of December, has been cancelled. Marlys Myers who has been involved in organizing the Christmas stroll for longer than any of the other current organ...

  • Elementary students give in the spirit of Christmas

    Erik Sietsema|Dec 9, 2020

    4 has been a difficult year for many families in the Big Sandy area. Especially during the holidays, the Big Sandy Food Bank has encountered a much higher than normal level of need. For the third consecutive year, they'll be getting some extra help from FE Miley Elementary school in the form of Christmas dinner boxes. The Christmas Dinner Food Drive is organized by Samantha Burns Weaver, the Kindergarten teacher. "I started the food drive three years ago with the thought of doing a project wh...

  • Big Sandy Organics has new owners

    Zoe Merrill|Dec 9, 2020

    Two weeks ago, Thomas and Heather Dilworth purchased the Big Sandy Organics, a local business, from Bob and Ann Quinn. Heather said, "The Kamut is an awesome product. We hope to bring on some other healthy snacks, a different variety of snacks, and expand in the lentils, chickpeas, and add a couple of flavors." In the meantime, they have added a whole second lever in the shop, doubling their space. In their future, they hope to add a little retail front to the shop. They are working towards and...

  • Green Acres

    Tyler Lane|Dec 9, 2020

    Montana State University Extension will host a free, annual cropping seminar series January 6, 2021 in Fort Benton, Denton, Havre, Chester, Shelby, Cut Bank, Conrad, Choteau, and Great Falls. Speakers will cover grasshopper control, antagonistic effects of herbicides, management of herbicide resistant weeds, and farm and ranch safety. Due to Covid-19, presentations will be broadcast to local locations for viewing. If producers would prefer to view the presentations at home, they can contact their local extension office for the broadcast link....

  • Northern C All-State Football

    Dec 9, 2020

    Northern C Football All-State Selections...

  • Victoria (Vicki Terry) Carol Terry Thorpe

    Dec 9, 2020

    On Saturday, November 21, 2020, Victoria Carol Thorpe, (Vicki Terry) loving wife, mother and grandmother passed away at her home from this life into eternity at the age of 53 years after struggling with a rapidly aggressive form of ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease. Victoria was born April 18, 1967 in Red Deer, Alberta Canada to Floyd and Marlene Terry. The family moved to the United States when she was 2 years old, first to Bozeman, Montana, then Libby and finally to Big Sandy, Montana. Victoria... Full story

  • Patching Cracks

    Erik Sietsema|Dec 9, 2020

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor who spoke out openly against Hitler during WWII. For his public opposition to the Nazis and his involvement in a plot to assassinate the dictator, Bonhoeffer was arrested, kept in a concentration camp for 2 years, then executed. In a letter he wrote to his fiancé from prison, Bonhoeffer reflected on Christmas with the amazing comment that: “I think we were going to have an exceptionally good Christmas.” The statement is a little crazy given his circumstances. Later in the letter, he explains his reas...

  • Senior Center News

    Dec 9, 2020

    Menu Thursday December 10- Pork Roast, fried potatoes, veggies, Caramel Apple salad, and bread. Friday December 11- Taco Salad and Dessert. Monday, December 14- Biscuits & gravey, eggs, fruit, and juice. Tuesday, December 15- Sweet-n- sour pork over rice, veggies, Frog Eye salad, and Lemon bars. Wednesday, December 16- Chicken Alfredo, veggies, garlic Toast, Chinese Coleslaw, and dessert. Chocolate Crinkles Ingredients 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 2 cups white sugar ½ cup vegetable oil 4 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose...

  • CHRISTMAS IN OLD BIG SANDY (circa 1963)

    Steve Sibra|Dec 9, 2020

    My mother, Arlene Geyer Sibra, was old school all the way. When I was a kid, I heard all manner of old sayings come from her, everything from Bible quotes to the Farmer's Almanac. I thought some of it was just nuts, like something out of the science fiction comic books that I loved so much – for example; she had all sorts of theories about the moon and its position in the sky causing this or that. If the crescent moon was tipped up straight, it was like a ladle dumping out water, which meant it...

  • My Time Away

    Jeremiah Genereux|Dec 9, 2020

    Hello Big Sandy, I am back from my first semester of college. Realistically, I could have decided never to have left the paper, but I thought it would have been best to leave it up to the other writers of this town to take their stab at it. I also thought I wouldn't have the time to get articles out through my schedule, but let me tell you, being a journalism major in their first college semester gives you all the time in the world. My courses were reasonably simple, courses such as...