One Nation, Under God
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As part of a novel study on Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson, the Saco seventh and eighth graders got the opportunity to learn how to sew on Thursday, September 9. The novel, set in Vida, Montana, during World War I, depicts the struggles of sixteen-year-old Hattie as she tries to prove up on her claim. One such struggle is learning how to quilt. The local quilting club-who also read the novel-enhanced the students' experience by providing them with an authentic, hands-on connection to the novel....
VFW Auxiliary is offering contests for grades 6-12. Patriot Pen is for grades 6-8 and is offered to any student in those grades. They must be enrolled in a public, private or parochial school or home study program in the U.S. and its territories. The student does not have to be related to a VFW or VFW Auxiliary member to participate, but all entries must be submitted to a local VFW Post. Deadline is October 31. Scholarship requirements are a 300-400 word essay expressing their views on HOW CAN I BE A GOOD AMERICAN. Judging is local, winners...
This week let’s talk about a few of those industrious souls who started and helped the town of Malta to grow. One such man came to Malta very early. He was a native of Canada and emigrated to the United States. This individual made many contributions that helped the growth of Malta. He donated land for the Little White Church, the land for the Carnegie Library, a large piece of land for the Phillips County Courthouse and jail, land for the first Catholic Church in Malta, and the gift of land which now makes up Trafton Park on the Milk River b...
1 years ago- Wednesday, September 21, 2011 80 show up for Punt, Pass, Kick action The Malta Athletic Club held its 2011 Punt, Pass, and Kick competition on September 13, with 80 youngsters participating. Age 6-7 Girls: 1) Madison Williamson 2) Sidney Gibbs 3) Allison Kunze Age 6-7 Boys: 1) Jonathon Siewing 2) Spencer Gibbs 3) Seth Siewing Age 8-9 Girls: 1) Erica Smith 2) Kia Wasson 3) Haily Carpenter. Age 8-9 Boys: 1) Rex Williamson 2) Hayden VanWichen 3) Colt French. Age 10-11 Girls: 1) Sam Mitchell 2) Kyleigh Schipman 3) Grace Doucette. Age...
The Mustang Foundation will have their 10th Fundraising Dinner on Saturday, October 9, at the GN Lodge Room at 6:00 p.m. There will be door prizes available, silent auction items, and two family pass tickets for Malta Schools. Tickets are $30.00 for a single and $50.00 for a couple. Tickets can be purchased from any Mustang Foundation Board Member. We do give extra points on our scholarships for anyone that buys a ticket. Our annual Chili Feed will be on Friday, October 1, at the football game against Conrad. We will have chili, chips, and a...
Fight for the Blue and White was the theme for this years' homecoming in Malta. High School Principal Shawn Bleth said, "I was very happy with the choice of the theme this year. Having it more pro Malta rather than against Roundup." The students had Spirit Week with different themes for dress-up each day. Tuesday was Color Wars, Wednesday was Generation Day, Thursday was Athlete vs Mathlete, and Friday was Blue and White Day. On Friday, the school held a pep rally attended by the entire school...
Members of Malta's VFW Post 4067 led a candlelight vigil on Saturday, September 11, 2021, marking the 20 year anniversary of the largest attack on American soil. In that one attack almost 3,000 people were killed. 2,606 in the World Trade Center and surrounding area, 265 on the four planes, and 125 at the Pentagon. Of those that perished, most were civilians, except for 343 members of the NYC Fire Department, 72 Law Enforcement Officers, and 55 military personnel at the Pentagon. The group...
Congratulations to Bill and Corky French, French Farms LLC for being chosen as the 2021 Phillips Conservation District Conservationist of the Year. They were presented with the award at the Montana Range Tour banquet, recently hosted by Phillips Conservation District at the Tin Cup. The Phillips CD Conservationist of the Year Award recognizes local individuals for outstanding contributions to the conservation of our district's natural resources. Bill and Corky have been ranching together in...
Chayten Pippin rang the Bell after 10 long months and 16 rounds of chemotherapy on Monday, August 30th at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver. Chayten was surrounded by his team of doctors and nurses along with family and friends. He will continue to be monitored, but as of now Chayten is in remission, NED (no evidence of disease)....
As a part of his years-long push to improve market transparency and ensure fairer prices for Montana producers, U.S. Senator Jon Tester today announced bipartisan legislation, the American Beef Labeling Act, which would ensure that beef raised in the United States is labeled as a product of the USA. The legislation is also sponsored by Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and will be introduced next week. “Montana ranchers raise the best cattle in the world, and it’s time American families are gua...
This was our old Chevy truck. Dad and I really liked to drive that truck. Now we have given it to the dino museum. On each door, it says Great Plains Dinosaur Museum Malta, MT. Carey can use it to go out on digs and look for more dino bones. My mom says that my dad would be happy that his old Chevy truck is being put to good use now. I hope someday I can have a ride in our old Chevy truck. -David Veseth...
“Treasure” is defined as a valuable object. Treasure comes in all shapes and sizes and surprising it might even be a slip of paper. The Museum was given several paper letters that are “treasures”. The letters were hand-written by a schoolteacher in Caldwell, Montana to her mother who lived in the East. Here is an excerpt from a letter about a 1920’s country dance she attended. She writes “The dance was all I had hoped for! An old-fashioned fiddler but playing up-to-date modern songs! And the men in this country sure can dance. Everyone wa...
Malta Senior Center BINGO is every Friday at 1:00 at the Malta Senior Center School Hearing Screenings 8-23-21 - 10-30-21. Hearing Screenings will take place in Bear Paw Cooperative member schools from August 23 through October 30, 2021. Children enrolled in kindergarten and first grade, and ninth or tenth grade will be screened. No other children will be screened without parental permission. Please contact the school if you have any questions or concerns, or the Bear Paw Cooperative at 406-357-2269. This service is sponsored by the Bear Paw...
The Malta School Board was informed of the current enrollment for each class at their monthly meeting on Wednesday, September 8. This year the Kindergarten class is the largest with 52 members in it. The smallest class is a tie between the seventh grade and sophomore class with 30. The total enrollment for this year is slightly higher than last year. Each class totals are as follows: K-52, First-35, Second-43, Third-33, Fourth-42, Fifth-40, Sixth-35, Seventh-30, Eighth-43, Freshmen-44, Sophomore-30, Junior-36, and Senior-38. 245 elementary...
1 years ago- Wednesday, September 14, 2011 City has questions about proposed meter formula, plans work meeting The Malta City Council Tuesday night took a look at a proposed formula for billing water use utilizing meters. Harry Whalen of Montana Rural Water presented the council with a billing system which he developed, and that he said is being used by 80 percent of municipalities in the state. “It’s a fair and equitable way to charge for water,” Whalen said. Whalen said meters are “the only fair way to go,” noting that water users waste a l...
As grain farmers painfully know drought and grasshoppers across the northern and western regions of the United States has hampered small grain production. Specifically, for malt barley, Idaho barley production is forecasted to be down 36% from 2020, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Idaho is in better shape than Montana and North Dakota, the other top two barley producing states. The USDA is predicting barley production will be down 54% in Montana and 37% in North...
The American Farm Bureau Federation, along with 46 state Farm Bureaus including the Montana Farm Bureau Federation, and 280 organizations representing family-owned agribusinesses, sent a letter today to congressional leaders urging them to leave important tax policies in place as they draft legislation implementing President Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. The letter addresses four key tax provisions that make it possible for farmers and ranchers to survive and pass their businesses on to the next generation: estate taxes, stepped-up basis...
The 2021 Montana Range Tour was recently held in Phillips County. The event was hosted by Phillips Conservation District, with over 100 guests in attendance. The annual Montana Range Tour rotates around the state, highlighting excellence and innovation in natural resource stewardship. The tour was held September 8-9, starting with registration at the Tin Cup. From there, the group loaded buses and headed south to Craig and Conni French’s ranch. Craig and Conni were recently awarded the prestigious Leopold Conservation award. The day was spent l...
The 2021 Saco Fun Days event presented the community and its neighbors a chance to witness its newest venue, a Rodeo Arena! Saco Fun Days, started on Friday, September 3, and concluded on Sunday, September 5, and featured several events for those in attendance. Those events included a pot luck, Pippin DJ, and Karaoke, and cornhole tournament on day one. "It's going great," said Lacey Beil of the Saco Chamber of Commerce. "We had a great turnout for cornhole." The cornhole tournament featured 22...
Dr. Cary Woodruff, Director of Paleontology for the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum, has a new book out called Sauropods: The Largest Animals to Ever Walk the Earth. The new book is about Woodruff's specialty, the evolutionary history of the sauropods. This is Woodruff's third kid's book and first book done in collaboration with award-winning author/illustrator Ted Rechlin. Rechlin, the author of his own dinosaur books, is a former comic book artist for Marvel Studios that currently lives in...
If you read the archives this week, you'll see the article that was in the paper 25 years ago on Scott and Gina Simanton purchasing the liquor store. In that article, Gina says that Scott told her he bought her a job. When asked about that now, Gina says, "Boy did he! And he's still adding to it!" As for the Liquor Haven, it is in its third building since they bought it. "The building it was in when we bought it didn't exactly work for what we had planned. So we moved it on the day we bought it...
Where were you when the Twin Towers fell 20 years ago? What were you doing right then? What were your thoughts? It was a tragic event in the lives of Americans where once it was thought our soil was sacred beyond the enemy’s reach. Little did we know right then that a third plane was zeroing in on our great Pentagon. Almost 3000 lives were lost, thousands of others were affected by the loss of those lives. Terror filled our streets and skies making everyone unsettled. Malta VFW Post 4067 invites the public to participate in their event of R...
The USDA Farm Service Agency announced Friday, August 13, the appointment of Ryan Lankford of Fort Belknap to serve on the FSA state committee in Montana which ensures the effective and efficient delivery of FSA federal farm programs to the state's agricultural producers. Lankford, son of Jerry and Bonnie Lankford, graduated from Malta High School in 2000 and earned an Engineering Degree from Montana State University. Members of the FSA state committee are appointed by the secretary of agricultu...
