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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...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is offering an optional in-person Hunter Education Field Day in Glasgow on Saturday, March 26. This field day is for any person (age 12 by Jan. 16, 2023) or older that passed the online course and would like to participate in an in-person field day. The self-paced online course provides a convenience for those who are comfortable with eLearning, already have a solid firearms and hunting background, or for those that cannot attend a full in-person course. The...
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...
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 following Malta Middle School students have made the Honor Roll for the second trimester of the 2021-22 school year. 8th Grade: Mackayla Bachmeier, MJ Beaman, Kylie Bishop, Sadie Branham, Kendall Clausen, Jericho Eklund, Sonny Gray, Dawson Hammond, Shaylee Hines, Neva Jacobson, Kara Johnson, Brooklynn Knowles, Karlie LaBrie, Kenzie LaBrie, Layla Messerly, Alexandria Oshio, Alyssa Scott, Straud Sims, Lola Snell, Emree Stuart, Denvyr Tuss, Amanda Volk, and Kael Young. 7th Grade: Bridger Benton, Emma Ereaux, Landon Honey, Caitlyn Lankford,...
Bear Paw Development Corporation recently released its Annual Report for 2021 during its Annual Meeting at MSU-Northern and announced that the nonprofit economic and community development organization had a $13.1 million impact on the region it serves in northern Montana. The Annual Report also documented that Bear Paw Development assisted the private sector to create or retain 61 jobs through their small business lending and advising activities. “The work Bear Paw Development was able to accomplish in 2021 helped the communities we serve w...
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...
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...
Last Wednesday, February 23, at around 9:50 Mountain Standard Time, reports had surfaced that the Russian military had begun their invasion of Ukraine. Politicians around the state of Montana had weighed in on Russia’s act of war against Ukraine, which also affects members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which includes the United States of America. Montana SD 17 Senator Mike Lang of Malta was amongst those that voiced their opinion on the crisis in Ukraine, which took a tone o...
Malta Senior Center BINGO is every Friday at 1:00 at the Malta Senior Center Malta American Legion Auxiliary 3-3-22. The Malta American Legion Auxiliary will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday, March 3, 2022 at the VFW Club. Meeting time has been changed to 5:30pm. Please attend. P.C. Coffee in Billings 3-7-22. Meet old friends from Phillips County at Perkin's Restaurant (Backroom) located at 825 North 27th Street in Billings on Monday, March 7, at 10 a.m. Call Carl Solberg at 406-656-9492. Please Send Briefly Information to:...
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,...
During the public season-setting process this fall and winter, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved several changes that affect hunting in Region 6 in northeast Montana. With the new “license year” beginning March 1, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks would like to give folks a heads up on some of the major changes that folks may see when they come to the counter. Hunting District (HD) boundary change: There will no longer be a HD 631 or 632. Hunting district 622 expanded east to include the western portion on the old HD 631. The rem...
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...
It’s time for landowners with land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program to send in applications for enrollment in the state-sponsored Open Fields for Game Bird Hunters, a voluntary incentive program designed to benefit landowners while also providing habitat for upland game birds and giving bird hunters more places to hunt. Open Fields is offered through Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program and is available to private landowners with existing CRP with at least two years remaining on the con...
Dr. Joseph E. McCarthy was a lifelong educator. He held a fierce passion for teaching, and his continued dedication was for ensuring the youth of America had a firm foundation and understanding of finance and higher education as it related to real-world experience. His focus was on Finance, but he had a rounded overall world view of life and was not only an educator, but a student in the fiercest sense ensuring that his mind was always active and he was always learning. In dedication of his years of service to the education of America’s y...
