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It was a quiet and quick City Council meeting on December 28, 2021, as Councilman Sintler and Mayor Demarais could not make it in for the last meeting of the year. Councilperson Bonnie Wiederrick called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. The only new business at the meeting was to have Malta City Clerk Lorie Bond administer the oath of office to Ward 1 Councilperson Elect David Rummel and Ward 2 Councilperson Elect Bonnie Wiederrick. In the department reports, Clerk Bond informed the council that City Custodian Lesa Williamson reported that her...
1 years ago- Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Speech team third at Fergus meet The Malta Speech and Drama Team competed at the Fergus High meet in Lewistown last Saturday, placing third in the Class B speech competition. The team brought home three individual firsts as D’Andre Haag placed first in Humorous Oral Interpretation; Skye McGinty was first in Expository and Garrett Giblette was first in Memorized Public Address. Justin Paul placed second in Original Oratory. Kim Perry was fourth in Serious Oral Interpretation; Landon Score was seventh in...
The Mustang Wrestlers got back on the mat after their Christmas break this past weekend with the CJI mixer in Chester on Thursday, January 6, and the Cut Bank Invitational on Friday and Saturday, January 7-8. “Our practices went really well over the break,” said Mustang Head Coach Jake French. “We picked up the intensity after Christmas, and the kids are starting to realize this last month is where we need to focus more and improve.” The Cut Bank Invitational was won by the host team Cut Bank with 226 points. Havre took second with 198, an...
After the Malta High School Band and Choir kicked off the season on Tuesday, December 14, the bar was set pretty high for the rest of the concerts to live up to. They did. Middle School Concert The Malta Middle School Christmas Concert was held on Thursday, December 16, at the MS/HS Auditorium. The choir, consisting of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders kicked things off under the direction of Mrs. Nancy Murdock and was accompanied by Mrs. Murdock's guitar class. The group started off by singing several...
1 years ago- Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Senators nominate French to Us Academies Senator Max Baucus has nominated Jaclyn French of Malta to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. French is a senior at Malta High School. The senator nominated a total of 37 Montana seniors to the various military academies to which they have applied. Sen. Jon Tester also announced that he has nominated French to the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs where she has also made application. A nomination, usually from a member of Congress, is the first step in...
The Malta Wrestling Team had a dual meet with Glasgow on Tuesday, December 21, in Glasgow. Their last meet heading into the Christmas break. The Mustangs had a rough outing, dropping the JV dual 27-12 and the Varsity dual 46-21. Highlights for the Mustangs in the varsity meet were Shawn Gilkerson with a win over Michael King by pinfall (3:03) in the 145 lb. class, and Camryn Mears getting a decision (12-5) over Austin Hughes in the 182 lb. class. In the JV dual, Kohner Shipman pinned Shalynn...
The Malta Speech and Drama team got back into action last weekend on Saturday, December 18, in Fort Benton. “It was a fairly small meet,” said Malta Coach Anna LaBrie. “It was run very well thanks to Amy Hanson, the Fort Benton Coach.” The Speech and Drama team has had a lull in competition as this was the first meet since the Malta Invitational back on November 20th. “The girls were a bit rusty after a few weekends with no competition,” said LaBrie. Emily Rettinger took third with her Humorous Oral Interpretation, and Izzie Hallenberg took 4th...
1 years ago- Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Snowball Royalty Candidates for the annual Snowball which will be held Thursday, Dec. 29, are as follows: Queen Candidates- Kori Kindle, Tayor Pankratz, Jessie Cole, Lauren Buechler, Heather Mavencamp, and Niclole Arnold. King Candidates- Brett Amestoy and Landon Costin. The ball will be held in the cafeteria from 9 p.m. until midnight. The Grand March will be at 8 p.m. M-ettes cruise to fifth win The Malta M-ette varsity cruised to their fifth win of the young season Tuesday night running over a...
The Malta High School band and choir concert was held this past week to a packed house on Tuesday, December 14. The high school full choir kicked things off under the direction of Mrs. Nancy Murdock, with an acapella song called O Magnum Mysterium by Evan Ramos. The next song was called In The Bleak Midwinter by Rossetti/Holst. The song started with a tenor sax solo played by Isaac Helms. Both of the first two songs were more of the hymnal type of music and were performed beautifully by the...
The Bank of Malta held its Santa Night on its traditional first Monday of December, the 6th this year. "We were really excited to be able to have our Santa Night again this year," said Bank of Malta Branch Manager Jackie Sorlie. "We were sad when Santa couldn't come and meet the kids last year." Santa Night is a tradition that has been going on for close to 25 years according to Sorlie. "I've been here for 19 years, and it was a tradition when I started back then." The bank welcomed between...
Malta Fire Chief Josh Newman brought a couple of items to the City Council meeting on Tuesday, December 14. Newman brought in a new fire monitor, which he explained is just like the high-flow deck guns that the department has on the trucks, only the new ones can be brought down to ground level. “With these, we can hit the fire a lot more directly and hopefully save a few more structures,” said Newman. “The monitors also allow us to move a lot more water with a lot less manpower. With a hose, we would have three guys holding them. With this,...
Mustang Wrestling in Action at CMR Holiday Classic The Mustang grapplers took to the mat in Great Falls this past Friday and Saturday, December 17 and 18, for the CMR Holiday Classic. This was a large tournament with teams ranging from Class AA to Class C. 54 boys teams and 27 girls teams participated in the tournament. The weekend tournament also allows the wrestlers to get a lot of matches in as there is a JV tournament called the Walt and Trudy Currie JV Tournament that is held on the 18th. W...
The Phillips County Ambulance Service has a new vehicle in the arsenal. It was purchased from Richland County on September 9th. It has just finished getting a facelift with all new graphics done by Northern Prairie Design and put on by Paul and Kayla Warren. "We were very fortunate to get this ambulance from Richland County at a very reasonable price," said County Commissioner John Carnahan. Commissioner Richard Dunbar said, "We were lucky that we called them when we did and got our names on...
The Villa Theatre has new owners and will start this weekend with Pictures with Santa on Saturday, December 18, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with pictures provided by Lynne's Line Photography, followed by a showing of The Polar Express, sponsored by First State Bank of Malta at 2 p.m. An additional showing will be on Sunday, December 19, at 2 p.m. (suggested $5 donation). The new owners of the Villa are Kari Miller and her husband SaintLouis. Kari was born in a small town in Humboldt County,...
1 years ago- Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Saco marks the end of a $1.3 million water project The town of Saco marked the completion of a $1,350,000 water project last Thursday with a symbolic ribbon-cutting ceremony. Officials gathered north of town to cut the ribbon with their new 150,000-gallon cement water storage tank in the background. The $477,000 storage tank replaces the now obsolete landmark storage tank tower within the city limits. The project also included laying a 12-inch water main from the storage tank into town, replacement of...
With a mixer and a tournament in Havre on December 3rd and 4th, a dual against Fairfield in Malta on the 9th, and a tournament this past weekend on the 10th and 11th in Glasgow, the Mustangs have had a busy start to their season with just as many days in competition as they have practice this month. The 2021/22 version of Mustang Wrestling has one returning state qualifier in Camryn "Reggie" Mears where he placed 6th last year. Team Captains for this year's squad are Juniors Camryn "Reggie"...
The 2021 Christmas Festival put on by the Phillips County Museum came to an end on Thursday, December 2. Below is a list of all of the items along with who were the lucky ones to take them home. Museum Curator Lori Taylor said, "We really appreciate all of the donated items and people that bid this year. We miss having our night at the museum social at the end and are going to try really hard to hold that event next year." This year's Peoples Choice Winner was a decorated tree called Moo-sic to...
A musical was put on Monday and Tuesday, November 29 and 30, by Malta High School and Middle School drama students. An online description of this musical reads as follows: The tranquility of a summer's picnic along the riverbank is shattered by the incorrigible Toad. His friends, the winsome Mole and the stalwart Rat coughing in his dusty wake, but determined to reform him. Toad's bumpy path takes him to the Wide World, where he is arrested, put on trial, and sent to prison. Although he manages...
1 years ago- Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Busy woman finds joy in discarded dolls ‘So somebody else can enjoy them’ When the season gets busy, Sharon Kindle of Malta just gets busier. Active in community affairs ranging from handling publicity for Phillips County Motor Sports to baking cupcakes and shepherding a bunch of Venture Scouts doing a chili benefit for the local Food Bank, Kindle also finds time to regularly rummage through the items donated to Malta Opportunites, Inc., looking for the odd Barbie doll or two, and other dolls as wel...
Many local businesses, groups, clubs, and individuals have decorated trees, wreaths, and swags for you to vote on at the Phillips County Museum. You can also put in a bid on those items along with many beautiful handmade crafts made by locals in the silent auction, or take a chance and put your name in a bucket to win some other wonderful holiday items. "We have some really talented people in Malta," said P.C. Museum Curator Lori Taylor. "We've got a lot of wonderful holiday items for people to...
At the Tuesday, November 23 Malta City Council Meeting, Sheriff Jerry Lytle introduced Marie Buchfeller to the members as a new, full-time, Phillips County Deputy Sheriff. Buchfeller has been a reserve deputy for two years, working at the Phillips County Fair and other large events. Sheriff Lytle told the council that Deputy Seth Sanguins was leaving the sheriff's department and going to work with the Fish and Game Department. Mayor Demarais asked Sheriff Lytle if the department was fully staffe...
1 years ago- Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Gas Prices Down 4.1 Cents Montana, Nov. 28- Average retail gasoline prices in Montana have fallen 4.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.48/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has fallen 4.1 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.32/g according to the gasoline price website MontanaGasPrices.com. Including the change in gas prices in Montana during the past week, prices yesterday were 56.8 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 8.6 cents per...
On Monday, November 15, President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law during a ceremony on the South Lawn at the White House. Part of this bill, $100 million, is tagged to go directly to the Milk River Project. For many years, decades even, the Milk River Project (MRP) has been grossly underfunded, and in need of essential and vital repairs. Just last year, on May 17, 2020, drop 5 of the St. Mary diversion gave way and failed. "There's been a lot of talk, a lot of proposals,...
The joint was jumpin’ last Tuesday night, November 16, as Malta’s Auditorium was turned into Mr. E’s Jazz Club for a one-night-only show by the Malta High School Jazz Combo. It was a night of bluesy jazz with a little bit of island flair thrown in that was enjoyed by a good crowd that had braved the high winds blowing outside. The show started with each of the nine-member group coming out one at a time, taking their spot and playing randomly, or “noodling”. The group wore Hawaiian shirts and black fedoras. Once all members were on stage, they w...
Malta High School played host to 12 other schools and around 50-60 kids on Saturday, November 20, for its Speech and Drama Invitational. The small but mighty Malta team of two held their own in the speech categories, coming away with a third-place team finish. Izzie Hallenberg competes in the Dramatic Oral Interpretation (DOI) category. "The piece I present is about a girl that is abused by her partner Zak," said Hallenberg. "DOI is the much heavier side of speech. More dramatic. I can't have a...
