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Friday, February 5 basketball hosts CJI starting at 5pm Saturday, February 6 basketball at Box Elder starting at 3pm Saturday, February 6 divisional wrestling at Chinook Monday, February 8 last day to get District 9 Class C basketball passes from Sherri at the high school office. Thursday, February 9, FFA at Harlem all day Wednesday, February 10 Life Touch Pictures; spring pictures at the elementary school at 8am and the high school around 11:30am. Breakfast and lunch menus for the week are as follows: Wednesday, February 3 breakfast is...
It was the perfect triad. Brad Lencioni had the dogs. Brad Moore had the will and the perfect Little Sharps Rifle to do the job and Chris Faber knew the location of a really huge mountain lion. Moore said that he has known Lencioni for many years as he does all Moore's taxidermy work for him in Sand Coulee. Brad thinks that Lencioni has had hounds for many years. Brad had told Lencioni that he would like to get a large mountain lion sometime. They had talked about it for years. Moore had a mount...
The Big Sandy City Council passed into law a new business ordinance for business license fees throughout the town. Mayor Stiles said the ordinance was necessary because “We have a lot of transient business coming in. Keeping track of them was very difficult to do. We needed to make them all have business licenses and we found we could not charge them without charging all of our businesses. So, that is what we did but we charge our brick and mortar businesses at a different rate.” When asked if this was a new tax, Mayor Stiles said, “We have had...
For all you Extension junkies, get ready for a very different and very special Extension agent in the Fort Benton office. Janell Barber is her name and teaching people how to get by is one of her largest jobs in that busy extension office. Janell is most recently from the Bozeman/Belgrade area but she is a farm and ranch girl who grew up in the Stanford area. Janell went to MSU and majored in Family and Consumer Science. "I decided not to go into the teaching aspect of Family and Consumer...
The regular Big Sandy City Council meeting was held January 13, 2016. The Pledge was recited. There were no guests and no public comment There was no sheriff’s report Regarding the Wastewater Treatment project, it has been closed down for the winter. The project is close to 95% complete. The construction crew will come back in the spring for a few little things. Construction and engineering submitted pay requests of $111,779.76 for both. The Council signed a stop work order for the winter. The Water System Improvement plans were discussed b...
Fort Benton and Chouteau County Performing Arts will be hosting the 33rd annual Montana Performing Arts Consortium on the weekend of Jan 29th through the 31st, 2016. Those of you familiar with the wonderful concerts presented by CCPA will be interested to know that many of the concerts you have enjoyed have been chosen from this event. This will be the fourth time Fort Benton has hosted this event. The public will be able to attend the three showcase sessions held at the Fort Benton Elementary School Auditorium on Saturday, January 30th. Each...
District 9C Basketball Tournament tickets are on sale from Sherri at the high school office until Monday, February 8th. Student general admission tickets are $24.00 and adult reserved admission tickets are $32.00. Thursday, January 28 wrestling at Big Sandy starting at 5pm. Friday, January 29 wrestling at Malta also on Friday, basketball hosts Hays/Lodgepole Friday, January 29 Senior job shadows in Great Falls today. Saturday, January 30 wrestling at Simms, also on Saturday there is basketball at Stanford 5 p.m. and FFA travels to Lewistown....
It’s that time of year when ice anglers are appearing on Montana’s waters for the ice fishing season. Ice fishing is a great way to enjoy the winter weather and to catch some nice fish. However, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks remind ice anglers that safety should be the number one concern during a day out on the ice. While there is fishable ice in most areas already, some of the larger water bodies like Fort Peck Reservoir just froze over this past week. While the first ice of the year often offers some of the best fishing, it also can be qui...
What has turned into "The event" in Big Sandy in January, the Gun and Ammo Show is going to be held at the Jerry Martin Memorial Hall in downtown Big Sandy on January 29, 30 and 31. If you don't go to any other gun show, you need to go to this one when Big Sandy turns into the gun capital of Montana for three days in January. The show is organized by Vance and Jean Butler and Kirkley and Stephanie Butler and will feature seventeen tables of guns, ammo, antiques, Indian artifacts and many items...
The name Montana goes very well with agriculture. Growing things is what Montana is all about. Whether it be wonderful winter wheat on the Big Dry, cherries on Flathead Lake, fir and pine harvests in our great forests or barley and durum for the finest pasta and beer in the world, growing is what Montana is all about. It is certainly what Chouteau County is all about. When you look through this report, you will get an idea of just how much our very livelihood depends on growing many different products. And how much we have diversified. It used...
An unbelievable community of Ranchers! My husband Russel Darlington was facing an extremely high risk heart surgery this Tuesday December 29th in Spokane. We live in Belt Montana but Russ grew up and ranched in Big Sandy until 2 1/2 years ago. We moved to Belt because of our involvement in rescuing children from sex trafficking. Average age of the rescued children is 12. They need counseling, medical attention...so we needed to be closer to a city. This is what the Big Sandy Community did for...
Construction on the airport hanger is coming along very well. The new hanger is going up on the site of the old one that blew down during a storm a couple of years ago....
Big Sandy Medical Service Foundation is pleased to announce they will once again be awarding scholarships to students pursuing a medical career. For the 2016-2017 college year, up to three $300 scholarships will be given – one to a graduating senior, one to a college student already enrolled in a college, and the third to a second deserving applicant in one of these groups, depending on applications received. The Foundation was established to foster better health care in the Big Sandy community. They feel one way of doing this is to e...
The four day week is half way through its first year of implementation in Big Sandy Schools. This story started out as a “Man on the Street” story but it simply did not work. People either loved the concept or hated it. All were vociferous in their comments. So, we took some of those comments, both pro and con and framed them as an interview with Brad Moore, the Superintendent of Schools, thinking that he could answer them best. There is going to be a presentation at the next School Board meeting on January 19 about the four day week and how...
With the awards of money just announced by the Lippard-Clawiter Foundation for 2015, "the Mountaineer" decided to look at one small but vital segment of our society and how they would fare without those funds and how they are doing generally. We looked at the Big Sandy Senior Citizen's Center. Center Director Linda Rutledge stopped in last week and talked about funding the Center here in Big Sandy. All the Senior Citizen's Centers in Chouteau County are funded by County taxes. That money is...
Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau announced public high school juniors will no longer be required to take the annual Smarter Balanced assessment, and instead will take the ACT. “Montana is one of 13 states that provides the ACT to all juniors for free, it doesn’t make sense to ask juniors to take the ACT and the Smarter Balanced assessment,” Superintendent Juneau said. “The change will cut testing time for public high school students by two-thirds, and allow them to focus on preparing for college and career.” Testing time will...
Norovirus leading cause of gastroenteritis in Montana Cold weather means more indoor time for many Montanans. Close contact indoors often helps spread illnesses, such as norovirus, anywhere people gather together. Holiday gatherings, schools and settings such as long-term care and assisted living facilities are especially vulnerable to outbreaks. “Norovirus can spread very quickly and can make some people very ill,” Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) Director Richard Opper said. “To protect yourself and others it is impor...
Montana’s Next Generation Conference set for Jan. 29-30 in Shelby Registration is now open for Montana’s Next Generation Conference which will focus on succession planning and general producer education. The conference begins Friday at 1 p.m. at the Shelby Civic Center. Kevin Spafford of Legacy by Design, an agribusiness succession planning company, will lead participants through an introductory planning session that will include hands-on activities for all generations. Events Friday evening will include a trade show, a roast beef dinner and...
In official minutes of the regular meeting of the Big Sandy School Board held December 15 trustees present were Kurt Strutz, Darin Genereux, Diana LaBuda, Brad Weaver and Brandon Gasvoda. Staff present was Brad Moore, Superintendent Maryetta Engle, clerk and Heather Wolery, elementary lead teacher. Visitors present were Charles Sipler and Walt Sivertsen. After the call to order and the Pledge was recited there was a welcome of guests, approval of minutes and no public comments. In correspondence it was noted that the Big Sandy Teacher’s Associa...
Thursday, January 14 wrestling at Fairfield Friday and Saturday, January 15 and 16 wrestling at Choteau Friday, January 15 basketball at home vs. Turner Saturday, January 16 basketball at North Star Monday, January 18 semester tests from grades 7 to 12 Tuesday, January 19 semester tests continue. Look at the school web page for the schedule Tuesday, January 19 end of second quarter and the first semester! Breakfast and lunch menus for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, January 13 breakfast includes donuts, yogurt, assorted cereal,...
"The Mountaineer" takes the first issue of every new year to do a review of stories printed during the previous year. This year we are going to go one more step. We are going to pick what we thought to be the very best story of the year and the very best picture of the year as well. So, sit back and revel on the happenings in old Big Sandy last year. In the January 7 issue of "The Mountaineer" there was a story that should at least be an honorable mention story of the year. With a headline...
What a dilemma! What story of all the front page stories in "the Mountaineer" for 2015 was the best story? Honorable mentions included the cattle crossing the Missouri, School goes to a four day week, KFBB, Kamut, Housing in Big Sandy, Tavie Kipp comes to Montana, Reinholt Bitz's story of World War II, the Cooks Thanksgiving Roundup and Knife, Gun, Family, Friends, and Wilderness, the story of Bob Nelson's hunt in Alaska this fall. Now, of course if you measured stories that were important to...
This year's picture of the year was the mountain lion swimming over to a boat full of people. The picture was taken by Janine Jorgenson at Fourchette Bay in western Fort Peck. We knew that the picture was of a mountain lion, not a tiger, Nevertheless it was too good a chance to run with that wonderful Blake poem, "The Tyger" It fit the picture perfectly and in one stanza asks the profound question, "When the stars threw down And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did...
This January, during National Blood Donor Month, the American Red Cross encourages people to roll up their sleeves to give blood to help maintain a sufficient blood supply for patients. Since 1970, National Blood Donor Month has been observed in January to not only honor blood and platelet donors, but also to help increase donations during the winter months. Maintaining a sufficient blood supply for patients is difficult at this time of year because extreme winter weather and seasonal illnesses often impact donor turnout. Karla Essmiller...
Additional Announcements for January 11th Cropping Seminar in Fort Benton We will have two additional presentations at the 2016 Cropping Seminar in Fort Benton. Dr. Clain Jones (MSU Extension Soil Fertility Specialist) will be presenting research based information on acidic soil management in Chouteau County. The presentation will cover the causes of acidic soils, and the consequences to crop production. Dr. Jones will explain how to recognize and test acidic soils and offer management options to slow further acidification and increase...