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The Phillips County Hospital and Family Health Clinic and the community of Malta welcome Sterling Beck as a new Family Nurse Practitioner. Beck grew up in Utah and did his undergrad work there as well. He did his Bachelor's schooling in Arizona at Grand Canyon University, and his Masters work in Indiana through Purdue University. Sterling and his wife, Amy, have three kids of their own and are currently fostering three kids, ranging in age from 16 to one year old. The family moved to Malta...
The Malta City Council approved four resolutions to be submitted to the Phillips County Assessor at their bi-weekly meeting on August 24, at City Hall. The council approved the annual street maintenance assessment of $1.15 per lot front-footage for a total of $118,432.37. The annual street lighting assessment, at a rate of $0.007 per square foot of the lot, for a total of $105,828.06. The annual underground sprinkler assessment, for a total of $3,009.71 for those that this includes, and the annual garbage assessment, for a total of...
Biologists for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks are expecting that many areas of the region will be challenging for upland bird hunting this fall. However, some areas with good habitat conditions should have fair bird populations for hunters prepared to find them. Habitat conditions, spring adult populations, and recent brood observations vary widely across the region for all species. Most noticeably, the severe drought has negatively impacted vegetation throughout the season and has likely led to a decrease in nest and brood success of all...
Roberta (Simpson) and Thomas J. Appelhans celebrated their 60th Anniversary and Roberta's 80th birthday at a family dinner at the Melrose Grill in Renton, Wa. On Aug 15th. Roberta and Tom were married in the Malta Lutheran Church on August 12th, 1961. Roberta, daughter of the late Robert and Helen Simpson of Malta, graduated from Malta High in 1959. Tom, son of the late Marie and Thomas P. Appelhans of Dodson, graduated from Dodson High in 1958. After four years in the Air Force, the Appelhans...
As Covid raises its ugly head in Phillips County a dear friend comes to mind. She and her mother both passed due to Covid. In remembering, a story came to mind about the grandmother of my friend. Grandmother was quite a lady. She came from Minnesota to Montana with her family in the early 1900s. The early years were hard with the family living in tents during the summer when their house burned down. In rebuilding the family pulled up fence posts, stood them end to end, and made their home. By the year 1919, she proved up on a homestead claim...
1 years ago- Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Fans, foes gathering forces for pipeline hearing A proposed 1,660-mile pipeline to carry oil from Canada to Texas could be an economic boom for Montana and the U.S. It could also be an environmental disaster, according to opponents of the Keystone XL Pipeline whose designers hope to start building next year. Hearings are scheduled in Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas – the states the pipeline would cross on its way from the oil fields in Canada to the refineries in Texas. M-ettes t...
The carcass results from the 2021 4-H and FFA livestock show at the Phillips County Fair are complete. Carcass results are eligible to be submitted to the Steer of Merit program, sponsored by the Montana Stockgrowers; Symbol of Excellence program, sponsored by the Montana Pork Producers Council; and Montana Certified Lamb program, sponsored by the Montana Wool Growers. For meeting individual carcass requirements, youth winners and the breeders of their animals receive a certificate from the spon...
American Prairie is expanding public hunting opportunities on its deeded property for the 2021-2022 hunting season. The conservation organization is increasing public access by enrolling thousands of additional acres of its private land in the Block Management hunter access program managed by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP). This move boosts the total inventory of property open to hunters to over 69,000 acres. In addition, American Prairie is pleased to announce 20 members of the public have drawn a bison harvest opportunity and 18 members...
The wildfire that is covering parts of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Phillips, and Blaine Counties, known as the Pine Grove Fire, has been burning now for eight days. The fire was first reported on Monday, August 16, around 11:30 a.m. It is believed to be human-caused, but that is still under investigation. On that Monday night, a voluntary evacuation was requested by the Phillips County Sheriff's Office for Zortman. Later on Tuesday, August 17, that was changed to a mandatory evacuation for...
The Montana High School Association has named the 2020-2021 winners of its NorthWestern Energy Academic Excellence Awards. One academic champion was crowned in each of the four athletic classifications-AA, A, B and C. Billings Skyview, Billings Central, Huntley Project and Whitewater High Schools were named champions in each of their respective classifications. The program was initiated in the school year 1988-89. In making the 2020-21 list, Whitewater High School became the first Phillips County School to receive the award. "It is a true...
Malta schools start back up on Wednesday, August 25, with two new principals and five new teachers. Kelly Cederberg has taught in Malta since the 2019-20 school year. This year, she will be taking on the role of Middle School Principal, as well as teaching. She will teach 7th and 8th-grade health and 6th grade PE, then the rest of her day will be in the administration role. She is originally from Ronan, MT, where she went to high school. She attended college at MSU-Billings. Before coming to...
A carpenter named Hal is fixing up a very, very old house on 4th Street West. He is re-doing the inside of this house. I got to climb up to the special round room and look out of the little windows. When Hal is all finished this will be a really neat old house. We think it was first built in 1909. Some people call this the "Tremblay House." David Veseth...
Publisher's Note: The following is a story ran with permission by the River Press Newspaper in Fort Benton. Logan Krause of Versant Real Estate Group - Powered by eXp Realty in Helena was featured in the nationwide and international edition of Top Agent Magazine this month. Krause graduated from Fort Benton High School in 2008. He is the son of Dale and Lorna Krause of Fort Benton and the grandson of Lorraine Watson and the late Tom Watson of Malta. Top Agent Magazine features the top-producing...
A quote by Bob Marley says “Without music life would be a mistake”. Music does play a vital part in our lives and in doing research for a music display in the Museum I found some interesting facts. The “Divje Babe Flute” is thought to be the oldest instrument in existence today. It was found in 1995 in a cave in Slovenia and is made from the femur of a cave bear. Moving on in history we find the piano was invented in 1700 by Bartolmeo Cristofori. Several hundred years later we find the first record player in 1985. Then a major breakth...
1 years ago- Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Dr. Veseth busy climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro A Malta resident and his daughter have taken on the challenge of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Dr. Mike Veseth and his daughter, Capt. Katie Veseth, a U.S. Air Force officer, are currently part of a climbing expedition of the famed mountain. “During the summer many people saw Mike in the wee hours of the morning hiking out to the city dump and back with a large backpack filled with gallon jugs of water,” said his wife, Rosemary, an elementary school teache...
Malta Boys & Girls Club (Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line, Malta Extension) has been renamed to the “Malta Kids Club.” According to Club Director, Sonia Young, “Due to changes in the national organization’s policies, our afterschool and summer program are no longer under the auspices of the National Boys & Girls Clubs of America or the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Hi-Line. We are still an afterschool and summer learning program, only we now have a new name, “Malta Kids Club” and a new logo, “Explore. Learn. Grow.” Malta Kids Club will open for t...
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is beginning the biennial hunting regulations review process, and this year the department is looking to take a fresh approach. In the past, the biennial hunting regulation process typically had few changes to the existing regulations. This year, FWP will tackle more significant changes such as combining hunting districts and simplifying license structures, while still keeping focused on statewide wildlife population management goals. “Hunters have told us for years that our regulations are too complicated,” sai...
Montana State Parks recorded more than 1.5 million visitors from January through June of this year. Compared with same time period last year, visitation increased by 11.1% and increased 44.1% in comparison with 2019 visitation. Of the 45 state parks that were seasonally open during the first half of the year, 27 experienced an increase in estimated visitation compared with last year. “For the second straight year, the state parks system has experienced significant visitation growth for the first half of the year,” said Beth Shumate, state parks...
Ranchers in Phillips County will showcase their conservation efforts on the 2021 Montana Range Tour taking place in Malta and south Phillips County on September 8th and 9th . Registration is due on Tuesday, August 31. The tour will kick off with a registration and breakfast at the Tin Cup Bar and Grill in Malta the morning of September 8th. From there, the group will load buses and head to the Craig and Conni French (C Lazy J) Ranch, south of Malta. Craig and Conni French are the 2020 Leopold Conservation Award winners, and Craig serves on the...
The Malta City Council met on Tuesday, August 10, for their regular bi-weekly meeting. The council passed resolution 1302 to authorize the submission of the MCEP Infrastructure Planning Grant application and resolution 1303, calling for a general election. They also passed the ok for out-of-city garbage pick-ups for two places that are already on a route and would not be out of the way. Public Works Director Jim Truelove reported to the council that the city crew had done two digs since the last meeting. The crew had also done two meter-pit...
The Malta School Board of Trustees met Monday, August 9, for their last monthly meeting before the school year gets started on August 25. Of all of the action items on the agenda that night, one of the most interesting to students and families for the coming year is the COVID-19 rules that will be put in place. Malta Superintendent Matt Genger said, “This is going to be a very fluid situation throughout the year.” As for the beginning of the year, “Everybody who rides the bus to Malta public schools will have the opportunity to wear a mask....
The Knights of Columbus held their second annual, (we don't count last year because of you know what), BBQ Competition/fundraiser last Saturday. The all-day event, because you don't smoke brisket, or anything for that matter, fast, started early in the morning with teams showing up to select their brisket at 6 a.m. The teams had until 5 p.m. to turn in their finished product. In between those two times, the teams also had another competition of cook's choice that had to be turned in by 2 p.m. Th...
Good afternoon – Following a successful push by U.S. Senator Steve Daines, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that ALL Montana counties now qualify for drought disaster relief. “Montana farmers and ranchers have been struggling in the face of severe drought conditions across the state,” Daines said. “I am glad to see the USDA recognize this and grant ALL 56 of Montana counties this needed emergency assistance. I will not give up my work to ensure Montana’s ag community has all needed resources during this time.” Senator Dai...
