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The Malta Middle/High School Drama Team presented a live radio play of The 39 Steps on Monday night, April 4, and will have a second performance on Tuesday, April 5, at 7:00 p.m. The 39 Steps is inspired by Hitchcock's classic tale and is performed as a live period radio play. It's a fast-paced romantic thriller that takes you through the signature world of the Master of Suspense. The plot sees Mr. Richard Hannay visiting 1930s London when he meets Ms. Annabella Smith, who is on the run from...
1 years ago- Wednesday, April 4, 2012 Malta man volunteered as donor to help a friend; but now he’s helping a stranger Malta resident Derek Davis, 27, signed up for the bone marrow transplant registry several years ago hoping to beat the odds and save the life of his friend. This morning he entered a hospital in Berkeley, Ca., hoping to save the life of a complete stranger. After having received five injections over as many days to prepare him for the harvesting of his white blood cells, Davis was scheduled to undergo the six-hour procedure t...
The Malta girls and boys golf teams will look to build on both teams qualifying for the state tournament last year, starting on Friday, April 8, at Shelby for the varsity teams, and on Monday, April 11 in Shelby for the junior varsity. "We are coming off a year with lots of success and growth with our appearance at State Golf for both the boy's and girl's teams," said Malta Head Coach Kate Webb. "We are looking to make another appearance and compete at State again this year." With a good mix of...
Ag Day was back in Malta on Friday, March 25, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., after a two-year break due to you know what, and judging by the attendance, it was missed! The members of the Malta Fire Department were cooking hamburgers, fish sandwiches, baked beans, and drinks at the fire station for a freewill donation. They also had some of their new purchases out on tables for people to see what their money/donations are going towards. (Personal note, the Flir thermal guns are really fun to look...
It is spring cleaning time for the Malta City Crew, reported Eric Witmer at the last Malta City Council meeting on Tuesday, March 22. Filling in for Public Works Director, Jim Truelove, Witmer informed the council that street patching has begun. The city crew is also blading alleys and the street sweeper has been out cleaning the remnants of winter away. Witmer also told the council that the cardboard yard between the fire station and MOI has been cleaned up and the fencing has been taken down....
1 years ago- Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Pavilion re-build draws 10 bidders; Clausen & Sons submits apparent low bid: $1,640,000 Ten companies made bids Tuesday to be the firm that will build the 150’ x 240’ replacement for the Milk River Pavilion. The apparent low bid was submitted by Clausen and Sons Construction of Havre. They submitted a base bid of $1,640,000 with a bid of $40,530 for open frame bleachers which is included in their base bid. County commissioners voted to take the bids under advisement so their architect Kevin Nelson of CTA...
The Malta Elementary School held its science fair in the elementary gymnasium on Monday, March 21, and held the awards ceremony on Tuesday, March 22. "The science fair is new for me," said Malta Elementary Principal Mrs. Seymour. "The PIE ladies were a great help in setting it up and getting the awards for the students. It was really enjoyable to walk around and see all the hard work the students put into their projects. I would like to see more participants in the older grades for next year,...
March Madness took over the Lucky Bullet on Tuesday, March 15, as local basketball fans gathered to bid on teams for a good cause. The March Madness Calcutta that is held every year as a fundraiser for the Health-Care Foundation of Phillips County was held with 18 bidders raising paddles for themselves and their businesses to get the teams that they thought would win it all. The madness part of the night came from auctioneer Darrell Carney. He kept the night lively and moving along, always...
The Malta Drama Team will be presenting Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps for two nights, Monday and Tuesday, March 28 and 29, in the Malta HS/MS auditorium at 7:00 p.m. The drama team will be performing the 1935 Hitchcock thriller, which was based loosely on the 1915 adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, in radio show style. The show will have seven performers along with one at the sound effects table and will even include the commercials for the radio station. Director Anna...
The Phillips County Motorsports held their annual meeting at the GN on Saturday, March 19. "I'd like to thank everyone for coming tonight," said PCMS President Dan Stout. "I think we'll start off with the meal and then get down to the meeting and presenting the awards." As the meeting got underway, the first item of business was to nominate three board members. The two incumbents, Dennis Bebee and Gary Mathwich were re-elected. The third open seat was won by Dan Olson replacing his brother...
This past weekend, I believe I was abducted! I woke up, ready to get something done. I had a list of projects in my head and was ready to be productive. Then I remembered that my phone had gone off. I had a message from someone. So I checked that and sent a message back. Then I checked Facebook, because why not, I was already on my phone. And then I played a game on my phone. Then back to Facebook. Sent a couple more messages, and then I looked at the clock. Where the heck did those five hours go!? I couldn’t have been on my phone that long. I...
1 years ago- Wednesday, March 21, 2012 City backs $6.4 million water system project The Malta City Council met Monday night and endorses a draft report by a Great Falls engineering firm hired by the city to evaluate the state of its water system. The council also voted to support the firm’s recommended alternative, a rehabilitation project with an estimated price tag of $6,441,000 that would require water rates to be raised $14.91 to an average of $36.41 a month. The project would replace approximately 26,460 linear feet of pipe that has a h...
After much discussion and talks with other cities around the state, the Malta City Council decided that a change is in order for the way that cardboard is to be handled at their last meeting on Tuesday, March 8. "Back when we started collecting and bailing the cardboard, you could make a small amount of money," said Mayor John Demarais. "Even if we broke even, it was ok. But now, there's just no way to come anywhere close to breaking even. So a change is definitely needed." "All of the other cit...
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...
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,...
