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On Tuesday, April 16, ladies across the county are invited to join their neighbors and friends at a presentation hosted by Ladies Who Ag, which is an opportunity to continue gathering and building through educational opportunities through the Montana Farmers Union. Beginning at 4:30 p.m., the event will start with a tour at the Field and Flower Cut Farm, which is located at 208 Green Acres Drive in Malta. Following the demonstration and talk there will be a presentation by Christina Murphy, Phillips County Extension Agent. Her topic of interest...
The local VFW and Auxiliary promoted the 2023-2024 Patriots Pen Essay competition. Across the county, grades 6-8 wrote their own personal belief and thoughts on the topic this year, "How Are You Inspired By America." This year, three judges were challenged with the task of selecting their choices from the nearly 70 entries. This process took nearly four hours and additional time to record and review the entries after the judges made their choices. Annually, approximately 112,000 students enter...
Are you interested in volunteering to help keep your local community safe by providing timely and accurate reports of severe weather to the National Weather Service? If that is you, the National Weather Service encourages you and anyone with an interest in public service to join the SKYWARN program and consider becoming a spotter. SKYWARN is a volunteer program with between 350,000 and 400,000 trained severe weather spotters across the country. SKYWARN storm spotters form the nation's first line of defense against severe weather. There can be...
1 yrs ago Mar. 26, 2014 Pat Doucette was presented with a 10-year Length of Service Award by Craig Pajum Electronic Systems Analyst and Matt Moorman, Observation Program Leader at the National Weather Service office in Glasgow, MT. Dale and Janet Veseth received a 15-year Length of Service Award from the National Weather Service for their dedicated service recording and reporting daily weather. Paul and Marie Score announced the engagement of their daughter, Lynette, to Ron Burg. Lynette is the granddaughter of Pete and Clarabel Score and the...
Off and running...? Well...at least racing! The Cub Scout Pack 4432 and Boy Scout Troop 1429, met on Sunday for the Annual Pinewood Derby and they did not disappoint the audience gathered at the VFW Post 4067 to watch as their creations raced for the finish line. About 45 people gathered around the track that was laid out, beginning in the back meeting room to the end, which was on the dance floor at the Club. Little faces of brothers, sisters and friends flocked the foot-wide track, cheering...
The Montana Masonic Foundation is a charity established by Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Montana. The charity has a strong commitment to funding grants for public schools. The categories schools can apply for grants include: Music, Art/Drama, Library, and Science. This year, Melissa Erickson Librarian Assistant at Saco Public School applied for and received a grant to purchase library books. We are most appreciative to the Montana Masons for their generous grant of $1,000.00 awarded to...
Malta School Calendar Mar. 27: Spring Pictures 8th Grade Ski Trip Apr. 2-5: State FFA Conf. @ Billings -------------- Class C Calendar Dodson Mar. 23: HS TR @ Cut Bank Saco Apr. 3-5: State Science Fair @ Missoula Whitewater Check out our website to stay updated, www.whitewater.k12.mt.us...
The long-awaited for Malta School District meeting was held on Wednesday, March 13th. When it came to Action Items on the agenda, the Board voted on going to a four-day school week. A motion was made and seconded, with one “nay” from Board member Scott Meneely, the motion was passed with the rest of the Board voting “aye”. The meeting had opened with the regular ritual of the pledge to the flag, and approval of minutes from the Feb. 12th meeting, and Feb. 27th Special Meeting, as well as approval of bills and substitute teacher list. The Stu...
When a community loses someone to death, it takes a toll on the community as well as the family. When the life of a law enforcement officer is taken, the family and community are joined by those who share that line of work. Such is the case with the tragic death of Sgt. Nevada Krinkee, of Sheridan, Wyoming. Krinkee was killed in the line of duty on Feb. 13th, leaving behind his wife, Karla, and young daughter, Bella. Tony and Emily Simonsen, owners of River's Bend Assisted Living facility, are...
The Phillips County Fair Board announced that Randall King, rising country artist, for the Night Show at the Phillips County Fair on Saturday, August 3rd at Dodson Montana. The longest continuous running Fair in Montana will open the gates at 6 p.m. and begin a night of country western music, with youth on its side. Born in 1991, King used to run around the house singing so much that his dad decided as long as he was going to sing, they may as well buy him a guitar, and that was the beginning...
Calvin Squires became the 2024 Midget 90 Class State Champion and Sidney Hould earned a State Champion medal in the Tots Girls 40 Class at the 2024 AAU State Tournament held in Billings last weekend.The PCN will have more complete coverage in the March 27 edition. Congrats to all the Malta Mustang Wrestling Club participants on a great weekend....
The Malta Senior Citizens will be at Ag Day, Friday, March 22 answering questions, dispensing information and giving away prizes. The members are proud of the updated front of the center and awning to protect people coming and going in bad weather. This and many other improvements were made possible through grants of which the Center is grateful for. To sign up for the door prizes, one must be 55 or older: they are five meal tickets to senior meals served at Rivers Bend any time you want to use them with no expiration date. Three are for $5.00...
Phillips County Community Foundation (PCCF) announces over $10,000 in annual contributions to local nonprofits from the Montana Community Foundation AND invites local applications for small grants. April 30, 2024, is the deadline to apply. PCCF in partnership with the Montana Community Foundation (MCF) continues to build a permanent charitable endowment and community savings account for current projects and future generations. In addition to contributions from the PCCF endowment, earnings were distributed recently from MCF to the following desi...
Attention Phillips County high school graduating seniors. Graduation will be here soon and now is the time to apply for scholarships. The Mustang Foundation has four Veseth Scholarships to be given to seniors graduating from any high school in Phillips County. Each scholarship is $1,000.00 and is given after the student has completed one semester of college or trade school and has turned in a sealed copy of their grades to the Mustang Foundation. Students interested in applying should phone Darlene Kolczak of the Mustang Foundation at 406 390...
Mayor John Demarais has set his hand and caused the great seal of the City of Malta, in the State of Montana, to be affixed at Malta, Montana, this 12th day of March 2024, and proclaimed March 18 - 24, 2024, as National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week and encourages all citizens to join him in observance. WHEREAS, National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week encourages teens to ask questions about drugs, drug abuse, alcohol, and alcoholism, and receive scientifically-based facts and answers in return; and WHEREAS, National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week is a...
The American Indian College Fund (College Fund) honored 35 Tribal College and University Students of the Year and 35 Coca Cola First Generation Scholars at a ceremony held on Sunday, March 10 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Dr. Charles M. Roessel, President of Diné College, was also named the College Fund’s 2023-24 Tribal College and University President Honoree of the Year. The Adolph Coors Foundation sponsors both the Tribal College and University Students of the Year and the Tribal College and University President Honoree of the Ye...
1 yrs ago Mar. 19, 2014 Malta Chamber members held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of Robin’s Roost in Malta. The store is owned by Susan Higgins and April Peigneux. Malta High School Supt. Kris Kuehn, calling it “food for thought”, approached the board about asking voters to approve a mill levy that would raise $100,000 a year for each of five years. Malta High School graduate Chad Cebulski, a junior at UGF, wrestled his way to fourth place at the NAIA National Championship in Topeka, Kansas; this helped the Argos to a sec...
The Missoula Children's Theatre is in Malta this week! Initial auditions took place on Monday from 3:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. in the MES gym. There will be about 20 of our students performing in this week's play. Each student in the play received paperwork to clarify practice times based on their role. The students needed for the second half of rehearsals will be there until 8 p.m. Practices for the rest of the week will be located at the MHS auditorium. Performances are Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m. in the MHS audito...
Last week, the PCN shared an article by Bernt Nelson on the U.S. Cattle inventory being the lowest that it has been in 73 Years. Though there are several issues around the country that affect cattle numbers, the PCN caught up with Phillips County Extension Agent Christina Murphy. When asked why Phillips County herds have been on the decline, her answer was not at all surprising. "Two main things. Drought and grasshoppers," Murphy said. "The grasshoppers have come through and demolished forage...
As far as grasshoppers go, they have come hand in hand with the drought that Phillips County has been experiencing over the past few summers. According to Murphy there are 400 species of grasshoppers and only 12 species are considered pests; Phillips County has all 12 of the past species. “Unfortunately, grasshoppers like to hit when everybody has a good crop going or when they are getting ready to cut again,” Murphy said. “They will get a first cutting to beat the grasshoppers to it and then...
Another large event that the Extension office holds annually is the Jim Schumacher Day event. This year’s event was held on Monday, January 29, at the Great Northern Hotel. “It went absolutely fantastic,” Murphy said. “We had a great turnout of people. We had many different speakers.” That day started with a presentation by Wendy Becker, who spoke about the Livestock Risk Protection Program. “It is great for people to be aware that there are programs out there to help if situations happen,” Mu...
Ag Day is slated to take place on Friday, March 22, at Malta's City Hall Building, and across the street at the Malta Volunteer Fire Department for their annual burger feed. Murphy was asked to describe Ag Day to people that have never experienced the event. "It is a collection of all of our local businesses that are involved in agriculture," Murphy said. She mentioned several clubs and businesses that will be having booths at Ag Day including local banks, gas stations, 4-H, FFA, Malta Dirt...
One new aspect of AG Day in 2024 is the fact that the Malta Chapter of FFA will be present. “Normally we have State Convention at the time of FFA,” Murphy said. “Or it just doesn’t work with our schedules. But this year, we will have FFA at AG Day, which is awesome because we will not only have a 4-H booth but we will have an FFA booth.” Both booths will be set up near each other. “Both organizations are youth-driven,” Murphy said. “They are there for the kids and they have the same morals and...
