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The Malta School Trustees Building Sub-committee of Justin Lamb and Scott McNeeley, along with Supt. Matt Genger met with the engineer that is set to do the HVAC work on the elementary school to decide which option to move forward with. There were three options to choose from. Ranging in price from $700,000 to $1.2 million. All of the plans include air conditioning. This is the project that the school has earmarked the ESSAR III funds that they have received to use for. After discussing the positives and negatives of each plan with the...
Well, thank heavens daylight savings time has started. I don’t know how we would survive without that. I always feel cheated with the spring forward. Going back an hour doesn’t seem to bother me as much. I will never complain about an extra hour of sleep. This is a good time of year if you’re a sports fan. It’s March Madness time for both the boys’ and girls’ college basketball teams. The national college wrestling tournament is coming up. The Masters is just around the corner, and all of the spring sports are starting at all age levels. Oh, an...
1 years ago- Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Scott King to be new Malta High principal Middle School principal Scott King will be the new principal of Malta High School. A recommendation by Supt. Kris Kuehn that Mr. King be reassigned to the high school principal post drew unanimous support from the Malta School District at their meeting Tuesday night. Mr. King will fill the vacancy created by the announcement of current high school principal John Roberts that he will retire at the end of his contract at the end of May after serving in the post for...
Two classes of seventh-grade students in Mrs. Liens' Current Events class took a field trip to the PCN office on both Wednesday and Thursday, March 2 and 3, to learn about how the newspaper is done. The two classes meet on alternate days. Collectively, they put together a Middle School Newspaper for the first semester and are currently working on one for the second semester. "The first semester, we were all learning how to do some of the things it takes to put it together," said Mrs. Lien....
The Health-Care Foundation of Phillips County will be holding their annual Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament Calcutta on Tuesday, March 15, at 6:30 p.m. sharp at the Lucky Bullet. The Health-Care Foundation is a non-profit organization that started in 1992. The annual benefit helps raise money for the Health-Care Foundation to assist the Phillips County Hospital, Nursing Home, Clinic, and Ambulance Services. Last year, the auction brought in $18,395. With the Health-Care Foundation getting 10% of...
January 1 USDA NASS reports Montana down 90,000 head of cows and heifers that have calved. The January 1, 2022, report for the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) shows Montana has lost 90,000 head of cows and heifers that have calved since 2021 (https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/h702q636h/pn89f870n/jw828f69f/catl0122.pdf). Locally, by brand inspection, Phillips County has lost 25,000 cows and heifers that have calved. The drought and grasshoppers in 2021...
The world news is all talk about Russia invading Ukraine. I truly believe that Putin has lost his mind. I saw a cartoon drawing of Putin and Biden sitting across from each other a few weeks ago. Putin is playing chess while Biden is playing checkers. After what I’ve heard about this invasion, I believe chess is out the window. One of them is playing checkers while the other is playing tiddly-winks. This past weekend a large F3 tornado tore across my home state of Iowa. It was on the ground for over an hour, killing 7, including 2 children. My t...
1 years ago- Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Oxarart named the new president of Independence Bank branch Independence Bank is pleased to announce Cody Oxarart was recently promoted to the position of Branch President in Malta. He will begin his new position in Malta on March 26. Oxarart is currently a Loan Officer at Independence Bank in Glasgow. He will fill the position created by the resignation of Nate Simons, who has been the Branch President in Malta for several years and is leaving to pursue a full-time career in farming and ranching....
The Malta FFA students had a busy week from February 22-25 celebrating National FFA Week. With no school on Monday, they started the week off with some trivia in the school during study halls. "That kind of started us off for the week," said Lela Domire. "It was a fun way to start off." On Wednesday, the FFA officers held a meet and greet with the seventh graders. "We introduced ourselves and gave a little presentation on all of the things that we do in FFA and what kinds of things they can...
The new owners of the Edgewater Inn & RV Park are Challis and Laura Crismore. The couple took over on February 10, to start running things before the official closing was taken care of on February 18. They moved to Malta from Libby, MT. Laura was working as a quality risk manager and corporate compliance officer at the hospital. Challis was a line crew foreman for Flathead Electric Cooperative, Inc. "We gave it all up," Laura said with a laugh. "This was something we wanted to do when we...
It was a fairly quiet meeting for the city council at their last meeting on Tuesday, February 22. Director of Public Works Jim Truelove updated the council on dirt work being done at the new Trafton Lift Station location. Truelove told the council, “It’s called a preload. This means you have to dig so much out, then bring in a bunch of pit run. In this case, about 1,200 yards worth. On top of that went five feet of additional fill. The first settlement reading will be the first week of March.” Truelove then asked the council for input on what...
There is a new face in the position of Administrative Support and 4-H Assistant at the MSU Extension Office for Phillips County. Randee Shannon started at the Extension Office in August and just finished her six-month review. Shannon grew up in Terry, MT. A small town on Interstate 94, between Miles City and Glendive, with her parents and a younger brother. She went to school in Terry, graduating in 2014. After high school, she took some college classes in Miles City. In the six years before...
1 years ago- Wednesday, February 29, 2012 On To State! Mustangs Open Against Whitehall For the first time since 1999, the Malta Mustangs are going to state. A 44-38 victory over the Fairfield Eagles Saturday night in the Northern Divisional championship game ended the drought. The Mustangs run up against Whitehall, the number three team from the southern division at 2 p.m. at the state tournament at MSU-Bozeman. “They’re a very deliberate team,” Malta coach David Costin said Monday. “They like a slower pace and they’re going to play a lot of,...
A great time was had by all those who attended the Malta High School Jazz Combo concert last Tuesday night, February 15. Over the short period of time that I have been covering the band/choir concerts, I have come to expect the unexpected. Especially from the band director, Mr. Eric Engebretson. He seems to come up with some very creative things to do for the band. So when the house lights went down and the stage lights came up, the only band members on the stage were Krista Meisdalen at the...
Architects, engineers, and repairs were the main topic of the night at the last Malta School Board meeting held on Wednesday, February 9. In the standing committee report, the building committee consisting of trustees Justin Lamb and Scott Meneely met with Elementary Principal Mrs. Seymour for a tour of the Malta Elementary School. They reported to the board that there are many issues in the building. There is a water leak in the gym, the library has a bad leak with water coming in around an old window, one of the boy’s bathrooms had been c...
1 years ago- Wednesday, February 22, 2012 New principal to come from within the district A new Malta High School Principal will be selected from within the ranks. That was the decision of the Malta School Board last week. The board met in a special meeting to formally accept the resignation of Principal John Roberts, who plans to retire at the end of his contract at the end of May. Mr. Roberts has served as principal for nine years. Supt. Kris Kuehn said he hopes to recommend a successor at the school board’s March 13 meeting. Supt Kuehn told...
In a paper released on Thursday, February 10, Dr. Cary Woodruff, Director of Paleontology at the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum in Malta, Montana, along with other colleagues, reported that they have found the first bird-like respiratory infection in a dinosaur. The subject of the discovery was a sauropod, or long-necked dinosaur, nicknamed "Dolly". "Dolly" was a herbivore that lived approximately 150 million years ago and was discovered back in 1990 in the Livingston area. The fossil of "Dolly"...
It was another top-notch production put on by the Malta High School Band and Choir to an almost capacity audience on Tuesday, February 8, at the Malta High School auditorium. The concert choir, led by Mrs. Nancy Murdock and accompanied by Jenny Oxarart kicked off the night with a couple of the songs that were performed at the District Honor Band and Choir concert in late January. The first song was a dark, foreboding song called Dies Irae. A song that was sung in Latin, and was originally a poem that dates from the 13th century at the latest....
Twenty-seven of the county's top spellers congregated at the school in Whitewater on Wednesday, February 9, for the Phillips County Spelling Bee. The winner was Finn Witmer, a seventh-grader from Malta Middle School. The runner-up for the competition was Jake Brown, an eighth-grader from Saco. It was down to the two of them after the seventh round. They seemed to be in sync, spelling two words correctly, or misspelling two words for a few rounds. Until the 13th round when Witmer spelled his...
At the last City Council meeting, February 8, the council got a visit from Barry Damchen. He reported that the landfill is looking good. There is a problem with litter from the landfill. He suggested that the city look into shutting the landfill down on days that are supposed to be really windy. Much of the litter that gets airborne happens when the trucks are dumped while it is windy. Mr. Damchen introduced Mary Louise to the council. She is a sub-contractor that is working with Mr. Damchen now that specializes in groundwater monitoring. The...
1 years ago- Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Nutrition key to Malta’s Head Start meals Where’s the one place you’re guaranteed a filling, nutritious and wholesome meal? The Malta Head Start Program…Honest! Bonnie Ost has been cooking for the Head Start program for eight years (she’s been cooking since childhood when she was Bonnie Koss on the family ranch). Raising seven children (one a nephew), Bonnie has learned what children like to eat and brings that knowledge to her menus for the Head Start program. “The Child Adult Food Care Program (CAFCP...
A project that has been in the works since 2018 has come to fruition. A brand new bus barn for the Phillips Transit Authority (PTA) is 99 percent done and waiting for its final inspection from the state this coming Thursday. "We will be moving things over there slowly," said Betty Hasler of the PTA. "I have a few time-sensitive things that I want to make sure I get done while all of my stuff is still here so I know that everything is working right." They broke ground on land donated by the...
Fifteen months after making his initial appearance in the courtroom, and following many delays, representation changes, and a change of plea, the case against Ernest Miramon, Jr. has come to a close. On Tuesday, January 25, at 2:32 p.m., District Court was called to order for the sentencing hearing with the Honorable Yvonne Laird presiding via Zoom from Blaine County. Present in Malta was Dan O'Brien, representing the State of Montana, and Lee Pekovitch, legal intern via Zoom. Paul Neal,...
Grasshopper outlook 2022 Unfortunately for most of Montana, the grasshopper outlook is only slightly better than 2021. The Rangeland Grasshopper outlook is developed through surveys of adult grasshoppers in the fall of 2021. The United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) conducts the survey and compiles the outlook map. In the state of Montana, 45.8 million acres are forecasted to experience 8-15 grasshoppers per square yard (orange) and 8.6...
After watching what was called the Pro Bowl this past weekend, I will never watch it again. I can understand that none of the very best players in the NFL want to get hurt playing in an exhibition game that means nothing to anyone’s record. An injury in a meaningless game could cost them money, contracts, their career. But let’s be honest, they were in full pads and were basically doing a walk-through. I’ve seen more contact in a flag football game than there was in the “Pro Bowl”. I would much rather they lose the pads and actually play a fl...
