Sorted by date Results 1 - 25 of 29
The Sidney Area Chamber is pleased that Sidney will be hosting the Billings Symphony Orchestra as part of the kickoff to this year's Sunrise Festival of the Arts July 8 and 9, 2016. Members of the Billings Symphony were in Sidney on Tues., March 8 and met with city officials, band teacher Kilee Sundt, and Executive Director of the Sidney Area Chamber Kristin Kennedy to work out details of the event. Executive Director Darren Rich, Music Director Anne Harrigan, and Educational Director Candy...
Montana Department of Transportation Proposes Major Rehabilitation and Widening of East Holly Street in Sidney, MT. The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) would like to notify the public and seek comments on a proposal to rehabilitate and widen about 0.6 miles of East Holly Street, in Sidney. The project begins at the intersection with MT 200 (Central Ave.) at reference post 0.0 and extends east for 0.6 miles, ending just east of the intersection with 9th Ave. at reference post 0.6. Proposed work includes widening East Holly Street to...
The Front Brewing Company has been brewing beer with local Montana grains and honey for four years. They like to partner with their distributor partners in giving back to communities in Montana with the proceeds of the sales of their award winning beers. The program of philanthropy is called 5 Cents Back, and gives the public the opportunity to give back to the greater community by choosing the non-profit organization who will receive five cents of the net profit of their Front Beer purchase....
The 11th Annual Best Kept Secret Bra auction will be held Friday, April 22, 2016 at the Richland County Fair Event Center. Every year individuals, organizations, and businesses decorate and donate bras, which are then auctioned off, raising funds for the Cancer Coalition Aid Fund (CCAF). The CCAF offers assistance to patients receiving cancer treatment through the Sidney Health Center and are specifically designated to assist with living expenses during treatment and provide cancer screening in...
Lower Yellowstone Lodge #90 of Masons will award two scholarships this spring in memory of Ben York and Earl & Clona Hawley. Ben York was an active Master Mason and Shriner and a long time plumber and electrician in Sidney. A $500 scholarship is awarded to graduating seniors who plan to attend a trade school to study in the construction trades. The Earl & Clona Hawley Scholarship was created by Richland Chapter #62 of Eastern Star to recognize the devotion of Mr. & Mrs. Hawley to their community. This $500 scholarship is available to...
Traditionally the Watford City Lions Club has sponsored the Easter Egg Hunt for young children on the Saturday before Easter Sunday. We are planning to continue that tradition and could use your help! This has been a fun event for children ages 0 - 9 years old, where they have been able to come to the Good Shepherd Home Lawn and pick Easter Eggs, meet the Easter Bunny, do face painting, and each receive a goodie bag as well. It has always been well received by the children, parents and particularly great entertainment to the residents of the Go...
MonDak Heritage Center will host the Jitro Czech Girls Choir on Sat., April 2, 2016 at 7 p.m. The concert is open to the public and goodwill donations will be accepted at the door. This concert is presented as part of the spring Music at the MonDak concert series. 17 singers are travelling from Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, along with their pianist and conductor, to perform in a series of concerts across Montana, including here in Sidney. For 35 years, Jitro, which means Daybreak, has been admired all over the world for their tonal...
The MonDak Heritage Center will host County Road 5 on Tues., March 22, 2016 at 7 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public as part of the spring Music at the MonDak concert series. County Road 5 was established in 2003 in the Kansas City metro area. The group travels around the country for 200+ performances each year, including state fairs, in saloons and in correctional facilities! They have been featured with national acts such as Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and Amanda Lambert, and have released four albums. The last,...
In 2013, XTO executives granted the Club its first payment of $50,000 in January of 2014 with subsequent donations in September 2014 and July 2015. XTO received naming rights to one of the five classrooms within the Club design. On behalf of XTO, public relations agent Lynn Welker, asked the Club to name Classroom A as the 'XTO ENERGY STEM Lab'. STEM represents Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Boys & Girls Club of Richland County employees programs that fall under the STEM category. M...
Ho'olu komo la kaua! Please join us! Pull out your favorite Hawaiian shirt or muumuu and get ready for great food and fun at the annual event & auction for the Boys and Girls Club of Richland County. The Luau themed event takes place the evening of Saturday, April 2 at the Richland County Fair Event Center and the proceeds will be used toward BGCRC operating expenses for the year. There will be a single auction item dedicated to the building fund campaign. Get ready for taste explosion! Honorabl...
After nearly sixty seven years of living on this earth, I have become a statistic. If this statistic had beaten the odds and I won $10 million in a lottery, my smile would shatter my face. However, this unfortunate numerical reality reinforces the fact that I have acquired some age. In early December, while walking my dog, I slipped and fell on a patch of ice and broke my left arm just below the shoulder. In doing some research on falling after this hapless incident, I discovered I had joined the ranks of other seniors my age. It seems that...
Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. Symptoms usually develop slowly and get worse over time, becoming severe enough to interfere with daily tasks. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. Alzheimer’s is not a normal part of aging, although the greatest known risk factor is increasing age, and the majority of people with Alzheimer’s are 65 and older. But Alzheimer’s is not just a disease of old age. Up to 5 perc...
Elizabeth and Friends is back! The annual women’s health and wellness event will once again be hosted by Roosevelt Medical Center in an effort to keep women in the community excited about maintaining their health through a variety of topics in a way that is fun, inspiring and engaging. The event is taking place on April 12, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Legion Hall in Culbertson. This year’s topic will focus on the benefits of better nutrition for women at every age and will be pre...
Tot 34.9, Landonn Bybee - 2nd Place; 41.0, Owen Skoy - 3rd Place; 42.0, Max Kleinke - 1st Place; 42.8, Jordan Simpson - 3rd Place; 44.2, Ryker Morrill - 3rd Place; 45.6, Danny Carlsen - 4th Place; 50.4, Brenner Mullin - 1st Place; 50.4, Rueger Sheehan - 2nd Place; 52.2, Kayson Clifton - 1st Place Bantam 42.0, Dawsen Baltrusch - 2nd Place; 42.0, Rylan McGahan - 3rd Place; 45.8, Kade Kutzler - 4th Place; 47.2, Tyson Syth - 2nd Place; 47.8, Bodee Bright - 1st Place; 48.8, Carson Propp - 2nd Place; 48.8, Ethan Eide - 3rd Place; 49.8, Jaxson Burger...
In our family, St. Patrick’s Day has always been a day to incorporate a little fun be it mischievous leprechauns messing up the house overnight, working green into your wardrobe, or sitting down to a hot meal of corned beef and cabbage. Moreover, I have always particularly liked the day because I do have some Irish heritage, as does my husband, but what are the origins of this festive holiday observed in more than ten countries around the world as well as the International Space Station? G...
The Great Bike Giveaway has begun and we are asking for your support. We have registered our son in the Great Bike Giveaway, which gives adaptive equipment bikes to kids with special needs. Owen is two and a half years old and lives with his mom, dad, older brother, and older sister. He was born with OEIS Complex, part of his condition being spina bifida and scoliosis; he has muscle weakness and decreased sensation in his lower extremities and on the left side of his body. His only fully...
Sidney resident Karli Johnson just returned from four days in Washington D.C. as part of REAL Montana (Resource Education and Agriculture Leadership). REAL Montana is comprised of twenty of Montana's emerging and established leaders. The participants were competitively selected from a pool of qualified candidates representing a wide variety of agriculture and natural resource industries across the state to take part in Class II of REAL Montana. For Karli and other members of REAL Montana Class...
Listed below are the individual winners, sorted by grade and by test. 7th grade: Number Concept Test: Gunner Rasmussen from Plentywood and Darian Holecek from Westby Pot Luck Test: Gunner Rasmussen from Plentywood Foundations Test: Brianna Brost from Sidney 8th grade: Pot Luck Test: Macey Seadeek from Fairview, Alyssa Hurst and Jay Yoder from Plentywood, Gracie Phelps from Sidney, and Aspen Hanson from Glendive Number Concept Test: Jayden Hunt and Emily Jacobson from Glendive Dimensions & Shapes Test: Jay Yoder from Plentywood 9th grade:...
This article highlights the evolution of glyphosate (Roundup, RT3, and other generics)-resistant Russian thistle in Montana. Russian thistle (Salsola tragus L.), a native of southeastern Russia, is one of the most problematic broadleaf weed species in the dryland no-till cropping systems of Montana and the U.S. Great Plains. It is a summer annual weed belonging to the goosefoot family that reproduces by seed. Russian thistle commonly invades dryland crop production fields, irrigation canals, roadsides, railroads, ditch banks and other...
Agriculture Week, March 13-19, is a time to celebrate agriculture in classrooms and communities across the country. The 2016 theme is “Agriculture: Stewards of a Healthy Planet.” Ag statistics show that farmers have used careful stewardship that has spurred a nearly 50 percent decline in erosion of cropland by wind and water since 1982. Farmers and ranchers are still looking for ways to improve their stewardship. The latest buzzword in agriculture is “soil health” which covers planting as well as grazing practices. “Think about soil as a whol...
McKenzie County conducted its annual spelling bee under the direction of Carol Kieson, McKenzie County Supt. of Schools. The competition was held Wednesday, February 24 at Alexander Public School, hosted by Superintendent Leslie Bieber and her staff. The 2016 State Spelling Bee will be held in Bismarck March 21 at the Ramkota Inn. The North Dakota Masonic Foundation, the North Dakota Association of County Superintendents, and the North Dakota Newspaper Association co-sponsor the State Spelling...
Friday, March 11th, was Rau School's Annual Science Fair. Kid's showed off experiments ranging from "Musically Influenced Cats", "Butter vs. Margarine Candles" and "Do Plants Really Need Just Water?" This years winners in the Junior Division (3rd and 4th Grade) were Marett Schieber 3rd place, Cooper McNally 2nd place, Jaxsen Reuter 1st place. Corbin Steinbeisser won Best of Show. Winners for the Senior Devision (5th and 6th Grade) were Jace Bell 3rd place, Kierra Huotari 2nd place, Shane...
In order to keep North Dakota beautiful, the Theodore Roosevelt Expressway Association (TRE) is partnering with a number of agencies across the state to conduct a clean-up of the US 85 in western North Dakota. The agencies plan to hold a US 85 Clean-up Week from April 25 through April 30. This event is an effort to pick up trash along the corridor and to promote a litter free roadway. In order to get this project done, many volunteers will be needed. Our Corridor partners to date are listed: City of Williston, City of Bowman/Bowman County Co.,...
Tree Pruning With March upon us, we are in the perfect time to prune our trees and shrubs. Late winter to early spring is ideal because the tree is still dormant. Both deciduous and coniferous can be trimmed right now with no damaging results. One reason to do trimming is for safety reasons, physical and driving safety. Removing low hanging branches will help keep pathways clean and removing dead branches can prevent injuries from falling branches. The other reason to remove branches is for...
R-CALF USA may be defined as a non-profit producer organization, but our work benefits anyone who eats meat and lives in an economy that includes agriculture. We’re more than a producer organization; we’re your organization! In a letter sent recently to the members of the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee (Committee) R-CALF USA urged the rejection of any effort to create a voluntary country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. The group’s letter points out that Congress repealed the popular COOL law “pursuant to a directi...
