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Mrs. Osmundsons' Phillips County Library Storytime and Mrs. Houlds' Little Learners Preschool got together last Wednesday and Thursday for Halloween. The costumed children enjoyed monster stories and songs, a spooky interactive sensory wall, an egg carton bat craft, and a color page. Each day Mrs. Osmundson chose a parent to describe a mystery creature to help complete Frankenstein's face at the Apothecary. The children squealed with joy as a mother sunk her hand into the squishy mystery box...
1 years ago- Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Council takes on trails proposal The Malta City Council meeting started out sedately as the members worked their way through routine departmental reports and moved on to new business. The Council then moved on to the issue of the proposed Malta Trails route circumnavigating the City limits – which became a little acrimonious and lengthy – as proponents of the trail implied the City was apparently blocking the development by citing insurance and easement control concerns. Laura Pankratz displayed a map...
Members of the Malta Kiwanis, Key Club and FCCLA, along with Marday Demarais and Darlene Kolczak presented Third graders around Phillips County with dictionaries last week. "We hope that they will be used to enhance the reading skills presently being learned in the classroom," the group wrote in a letter to those that received the dictionary. "This dictionary, when used at home, will afford your student the opportunity to expand on the reading abilities being taught at school. When you child...
The following Malta High School students have made the Honor Roll for the first quarter of the 2021-22 school year. Seniors: Kaylee Bishop, Tamra Dowell, Shawn Gilkerson, Oren Mackey, Dallan Messerly, Ashlynn Morser, Nikki Nicholson, Cash Salsbery, Taylor Score, Shane Soul, Connor Tuss, Zachary Ulrich, and Brynn Varady. ------------------- Juniors: Addy Anderson, Madyson Bain, Kira Beck, Kaden Bishop, Jared Eggebrecht, Brylee French, Rylee Hines, Tye Jones, Kennedy Koss, Allison Kunze, Camryn Mears, Kirsta Meisdalen, Arena Niebur, Dally...
The Malta students put on their orange and held the first-ever Relay for Unity around the track on Wednesday, October 20. The students wore orange to show unity for kindness, acceptance, and inclusion, and to send a visible message that no child should ever experience bullying. Each of the 13 elementary classes made a poster that was displayed on hurdles around the track. The posters represented what Unity Day meant to them. Each of the classes took turns walking/running around the track at...
The city of Malta kicks off the holiday season this Thursday, October 28, with the fourth annual Oktoberfest. Malta’s banks and participating businesses will be open on Thursday till 8 p.m. The Christmas scrip program is available at all three local banks; The First State Bank of Malta, Bank of Malta, and Independence Bank. The scrip program offers up to $1,000 in loans that are paid back in 10 monthly installments. This year, individuals can get scrip from October 28 through December 24. Last year, Phillips County residents invested $...
Willy and Joyce Hammar took the top honors in the 2021 Mixed Couples division of the Walleyes Unlimited Fort Peck Series. "It is quite an honor to have a couple with this kind of an accomplishment from our local chapter," said Chapter President Jay Boardman. "Congratulations Willy and Joyce." The Fort Peck Series consists of three tournaments. Rock Creek, held in early June, The Montana Governor's Cup, held in early July, and Hell Creek, held in late July. The Malta anglers started the season...
The St. Mary/Milk River irrigation project struck out on another federal funding opportunity. The America Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding that came from the Federal government to the state of Montana was made available through application for infrastructure project including water and sewer projects across the state. However, the Treasury Department did not include funding for dams or reservoirs in the spending guidelines for the state. “We asked our congressional delegation to contact the T...
The City of Malta has purchased the “old” National Guard Armory and I’ve had several questions about its history. The Armory was originally dedicated on May 1, 1965. Original cost of the armory was $100,000.00. The armory was filled to capacity for the dedication ceremonies. As the colors were posted The Malta High School Band played several musical selections including “The Star-Spangled Banner”. Telegrams were read from the White House and Governor Tim Babcock congratulating the community. Following the program guests were taken on guided to...
1 years ago- Wednesday, October 26, 2011 The message: Don’t close our post office The sentiment was clear and predictable. Residents of Loring and Whitewater don’t want to see their rural post offices close. “Why are we going backward,” said one resident, who pointed out the “our ancestors” worked and fought to get mail service so they wouldn’t be so isolated. The Loring and Whitewater post offices are among 83 in Montana the US Postal Service is proposing to close in a cost-cutting measure. Public meetings were held Tuesday in both communit...
On Thursday, October 15, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., listeners around the state were able to listen to voices from Malta and the Phillips County area, as Aaron Flint the host of Montana Talks, set up in the Missouri River Realty (MRR) office. Malta was one of Flint’s stops for Montana Talks’ Hometown Handshake Tour. “It went really great,” Flint said of the show. “I know a lot of our rancher friends are busy working cattle.” The tour is taking Montana Talks around the state. Flint said that the even...
Malta Fire Chief, Josh Newman, visited the Malta City Council at their regular meeting on Tuesday, October 12, to update them on equipment needed. Newman first informed the council that the overall fire call numbers are down for the year at this time. “I was really worried with the weather conditions that we had this past summer,” said Newman. “But everyone was really conscious of the conditions and were extra careful.” He went on to say that the two bigger fires that they did have brought up a couple of things that the department might w...
The Malta School Board Meeting that was held on Wednesday, October 13, was standing room only with many visitors that night. The board was visited by two middle school girls that made a proposal for a Middle School Rodeo Team. The girls had a very well, thought-out proposal, pointing out the advantages and positives of rodeo. Such as how rodeo teaches how our ancestors lived back in the frontier days of the old west. It can teach perseverance and determination. How to learn from falling and always getting back up. They said it can also teach...
1 years ago- Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Junky yards are a topic on the next city council agenda The topic of junky yards will be an agenda item on the next Malta City Council agenda. Mayor Shyla Jones requested the agenda item, after a discussion that occurred during the public comment portion of the last city council. Dennis Kuether of Great Falls thanked the city for beginning action to force the clean-up of a neighbor’s property in Malta. He and his wife own her parents’ home in Malta. Earlier in the meeting, Public Works Director John Dem...
A recent spike in Covid-19 cases brings community awareness back to the forefront. Just two short months ago, on Monday, August 16, the Phillips County Health Department was reporting zero active cases. On Monday, September 13, that number was 11, and now, as of Thursday, October 7, it's at 42 active cases. In those two months, Phillips County has had 119 new cases, 10 hospitalizations, and 3 additional deaths. These numbers are not huge when you compare them to some of the higher populated...
Sunday, September 26th was National Gold Star Recognition Day, and locally it was observed by the VFW Auxiliary at Buster Deo Post 4067. Two Gold Star Mothers were honored and their loss was acknowledged; mothers who lose a son or daughter in combat are Gold Mothers. Annually, the last Sunday in September is designated as this day. Mae Walsh was honored in a quick ceremony, due to Covid restrictions, at the Hi-Line Retirement Center, where she resides. Auxiliary President Kari Hould pinned a...
On Friday, October 1, 2021, a joint drug interdiction operation was conducted involving members of the Phillips County Sheriff’s Office, Montana Motor Carrier Services, Montana Highway Patrol, and a K-9 unit with the US Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks. A traffic stop resulted in the use of the K-9 dog and the seizure of the vehicle pending a search warrant to search for illicit drugs. The vehicle was stopped by Montana Highway Patrol Troopers on highway US 191 South, while on the Charles M. Russell Wildlife Refuge. The investigation is o...
1 years ago- Wednesday, October 12, 2011 He’s back, 23 years later, walking for hospice Twenty-three years ago, Colin Skinner remembers it was cold and snowing hard when he walked into Malta sometime during November in 1988. “The weather’s slightly better now,” he said last Thursday, as he made a return visit to Malta. Twenty-three years ago, someone let him sleep overnight at the Phillips County News. Last Wednesday night, he spent the evening in the Malta Lutheran Church. Skinner, whose home is in the community of Deal, located near the fam...
The Northeastern Arts Network is BACK and pleased to present the 2021 - 22 Big Sky Concert Series to our community. Each musical act will be held in the Malta High School Auditorium. This year's series features a kaleidoscope of musical entertainment as part of this art organization's ongoing commitment to provide quality entertainment to the community with a variety of shows that will appeal to every Interest! Join us on Monday, October 25, at 7 p.m. for Men of Worth. Men of Worth are an intern...
Livestock operators are faced with tough feeding decisions from low quality to low volume of forages as we enter the winter-feeding period. Recognizing the volume of low-quality forages that may need to be fed this winter, Dr. Megan Van Emon will be in the library basement October 26 at 2 pm to discuss feeding options and the impact on livestock production and maintain pregnancy. If you have forage test on these feeds, please bring them to the meeting. Call the Extension Office at 406-654-2543 for more information....
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte appointed two additional members to the Fish and Wildlife Commission this week. The new members are William Lane of Ismay and Jana Waller of Florence. Lane is the current owner and operator of Crescent Cross Ranch and has experience working in the private sector and serving on various boards managing assets, streamlining operations, analyzing investment risk, conducting community outreach, and implementing policy. Lane’s term will run through Jan. 1, 2025. Waller is a freelance outdoor writer for numerous websites a...
The 2nd annual Andrew Flansaas Memorial Run for Suicide Awareness and Prevention was held in Loring on Saturday, October 2, at 10:00 a.m. This year's event had 22 runners, almost doubling last year's total, had a 10k run and a 5k run/walk. Event organizer, Carmen Norville, said, "We had a really nice day for the run. It wasn't too windy." The event had prizes given out for 1st and 2nd place in each of the runs, as well as a prize for the 1st place kid in the 5k. Ava Handley took first place in...
There will be only two names on the ballot for this year's Municipal General Election on November 2, 2021. The seat for Ward 1, the west side of Malta, will be contested by incumbent David Rummel and challenger Steen McFadden. Mayor John Demarais and the incumbent for Ward 2, Bonnie Wiederrick, are running uncontested. The two candidates for Ward 1 were asked the same five questions. Below are their answers. David Rummel (incumbent) 1. What is your motivation to run for office? As a...
During the last city council meeting on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, Public Works Director Jim Truelove said, “The crew is currently blowing out the sprinkler lines in the parks. That should be done this week. We will then start on trimming the trees and sweeping up some of the leaves that have already fallen.” PWD Truelove asked the council if it was ok to close the bathrooms at Riverview Park and State Park. The other parks will remain open for now. Truelove went on to say that the painters out at the old armory have been doing a great job...
