Legal Ads for July 1, 2015

PUBLIC NOTICE: MALTA IRRIGATION DISTRICT WATER USERS ARE ADVISED THAT ONLY ONE MORE

IRRIGATION WILL BE PROVIDED FOR 2015 IRRIGATION SEASON

Due to the lack of water inflows and current conditions of the reservoirs throughout the Milk River Basin, until further notice Malta Irrigation District (MID) will only be able to deliver one (1) more irrigation to water users.

Once demoss is over, MID will provide a regular irrigation to each field. Water users will not be able to provide a third or fourth irrigation to fields. Water users will not be allowed to transfer water rights from one field to another in order to irrigate a field a third time.

Once water users receive the second and final irrigation, until further notice the District will shut down irrigation flows for the 2015 irrigation season. This is necessary in order to conserve any remaining waters in Sherburn, Fresno and Nelson Reservoirs for the 2016 irrigation season.

For questions regarding this announcement, please contact the MID office at (406) 654-1440 or [email protected] or contact Clint Simpson, Foreman, at (406) 654-7027.

(Published by Phillips County News 07/01, 07/08/2015)

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Notice is hereby given that 2014 delinquent Real Estate property taxes, including penalty, interest and costs, are a lien on the property upon which the taxes are assessed. At 10 o'clock AM on the 16th day of the July 2015, and INTEREST in the delinquent property on which taxes are delinquent will be offered for sale. The sale will take place in the Phillips County Treasurer's office, 314 S 2nd Avenue West, Malta, Montana. If the deliquent taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid prior to the time of the tax lien sale, the lien will be offered for sale. If the tax lien is not sold, Phillips County will become the purchaser and a Tax Lien Certificate will be issued to Phillips County.

A complete list of the property upon which the taxes are delinquent is on file in the Office of the Phillips County Treasurer and is open to inspection.

Dated this 24th Day of June 2015.

Jean Mavencamp, Phillips County Treasurer

(Published by Phillips County News 06/24, 07/01, 07/08/2015)

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION

BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF MONTANA

IN THE MATTER OF the Proposed ) REGULATORY DIVISION

Merger of Triangle Telephone )

Cooperative and Central Montana ) DOCKET NO. D2015.6.47

Communications, Inc. )

NOTICE OF FILING AND INTERVENTION DEADLINE

On June 3, 2015, Triangle Telephone Cooperative Association, Inc (Triangle) filed a proposed merger between Triangle and Central Montana Communications, Inc. (CMC). Triangle asserts that the consolidation is accomplished via a subsidiary merger pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. § 35-1-818 (2013). Triangle states that it has published a series of newsletter articles to provide notice of the action and the benefits. Triangle announced the merger at its annual member meeting in

October, 2014.

A copy of Triangle’s filing is available for inspection at the PSC, 1701 Prospect Avenue, P.O. Box 202601, Helena, Montana 59620-2601, and the Montana Consumer Counsel (MCC), 111 North Last Chance Gulch, Suite 1B, P.O. Box 201703, Helena, Montana 59620-1703, telephone (406) 444-2771.

The MCC is available and may be contacted to assist and represent

the interests of the consuming public in this matter.

Any interested person who is directly affected by Triangle’s filing before the PSC and who wants to be a party to the docket must file a Petition to Intervene with the PSC no later than July 13, 2015. By the intervention deadline, a person petitioning for intervention must: (1) Submit the petition electronically (e-file) on the PSC’s website at http://psc.mt.gov (“Account Login/Registration” under “Electronic Documents” tab); and (2) physically deliver or mail the original petition to the PSC at 1701 Prospect Avenue, P.O. Box 202601, Helena, Montana 59620-2601. The PSC will not post an e-filed petition to its website until it receives the original from the petitioner. A person petitioning for intervention in this docket must also serve a hard copy of the petition on the MCC, at the address above, and Triangle, c/o Richard Stevens, 2121 U.S. HWY. 2 N.W., PO BOX 1140, Havre, MT 59501.

An interested person who does not wish to formally intervene in this docket may submit written public comments on the matter to the PSC at the above address,

or through the PSC’s web-based comment form at http://psc.mt.gov (“Comment on Proceedings”).

The PSC’s jurisdiction over this matter is provided at Mont. Code Ann. Title 69. The substantive and procedural law applicable is Title 69, especially Chapter 3, Admin. R. Mont. Title 38, Ch. 5 (utilities), Mont. Code Ann. Title 2, Ch. 4 (MAPA), Admin. R. Mont. Title 38, Ch. 2 (PSC procedural rules), and any prior orders of the PSC which may bear on the issues presented.

BY THE MONTANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

BRAD JOHNSON, Chairman

TRAVIS KAVULLA, Vice Chairman

KIRK BUSHMAN, Commissioner

ROGER KOOPMAN, Commissioner

BOB LAKE, Commissioner

(Published by Phillips County News 07/01/2015)

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Adam Olschlager

CROWLEY FLECK PLLP

500 Transwestern Plaza II, 490 North 31st Street

P. O. Box 2529, Billings, MT 59103-2529

Telephone: (406) 252-3441

Attorneys for Petitioner

MONTANA SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PHILLIPS COUNTY

Fidelity Exploration & Production Company, No. DV-01-032

Petitioner. NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE

OF HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Fidelity Exploration and Production Company has filed a third petition to amend the trust created by order of the Court on October 23, 2001 in order to add to said trust Clara A. Nohner, Margaret Maude Johnson, Mary Pewonka, Richard R. Rognas, and/or their unknown successors in interest, unlocatable owners of an interest in the minerals underlying the following described lands located in Phillips County, Montana:

TOWNSHIP 32 NORTH, RANGE 32 EAST, M.P.M.

Section 1: Lots 3, 4, S½NW¼, SW¼

Section 25: S½

TOWNSHIP 32 NORTH, RANGE 33 EAST, M.P.M.

Section 2: Lots 1, 2, SE¼, S½NE¼

Section 22: SE¼

and for an order authorizing the trustee to hold funds payable to said unlocatable owners and, if necessary, execute oil and gas leases to Fidelity Exploration and Production Company, the Petitioner herein.

The hearing on said petition is set for Monday, the 10th day of August, 2015, at 11:30 a.m., in the courtroom of the courthouse in Malta, Phillips County, Montana, and any interested person may appear and contest the same or object to the relief requested by the Petitioner herein.

Dated this 26th day of June, 2015.

CROWLEY FLECK PLLP

By: Adam Olschlager

(Published by Phillips County News 07/01, 07/08, 07/15/2015)

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The Malta Irrigation Districts’ regular board meeting for July

has been rescheduled for July 9, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

Questions contact the office at (406) 654-1440.

(Published by Phillips County New 07/01, 07/08/2015)

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