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Parents Bryton Held and Brian Kusto expected what most parents expect when anticipating a new baby: a brief hospital stay before bringing their bundle of joy home. However, shortly after their 7lb. 7oz. baby boy, Michael Allen Kusto was born on July 27th, 2016, they were told that he had a heart murmur. Four hours later, baby Michael was flown to Bismarck, ND where he stayed for a few days before being flown to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis, MN. Unable to fly with their child, Michael's...
Join the McKenzie County Heritage Association for their 18th Annual Heritage Day, Saturday, Sept. 17th in Watford City, ND. Admission is a free-will donation and the fun begins at 11:00am central time at the McKenzie County Heritage Park. Attendants are encouraged to dress in period costumes. At 11:30 the District I Cattle Women will be serving up $5.00 slush burger meals until they are gone. There will be live and recorded music throughout the day, an old –time photo booth, food vendors i...
The Chair-ity Silent Auction will be held Friday, Sept. 16th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the Sidney Elks Lodge, 123 3rd St W. Up-cycled and decorated chairs will be auctioned off with all proceeds going to help Crestwood Inn purchase new dining room chairs. In addition to the auction, there will be a mystery wine-pull; for $20, participants can pull a random bottle of wine varying in value, variety, and uniqueness. Vickie Vaira will be playing the accordion that evening and Crestwood Inn cook B...
The Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture has named June Hesser as its new Executive Director. Her first day on the job will be Monday, September 12th. As Director, Hesser will oversee the daily operations of the Chamber, and work with the board and volunteers to ensure programs and services provide the greatest benefit to its many investors. Hesser is a native of Havre, Montana. With over 17 years of experience as a business owner, the Chamber board is confident that her work will keep its services member-centered. In addition,...
Funeral service for Myrtle May Brown, 77, of Rochester, MN, formerly of Miles City, MT, was held on Tuesday, September 6 at 1 p.m. at Ebenezer Congregational Church in Sidney, MT with Pastor David Meehan officiating. Burial was in the Richland County Memorial Park cemetery under the direction of Fulkerson-Stevenson Funeral Home of Sidney, MT. Remembrances, pictures and condolences can be shared with the family at www.fulkersons.com....
Mass of the Christian Burial for Fr. Ned Shinnick, 85, of Sidney, MT is at 10 a.m., Wednesday, September 7, at St. Matthew’s Catholic Church in Sidney. Vigil services were at 7 p.m., Tuesday, September 6, at St. Matthew’s Catholic Church in Sidney. Interment will be in the Sidney Cemetery, Sidney, MT under the direction of the Fulkerson-Stevenson Funeral Home of Sidney. Remembrances, condolences and pictures may be shared with the family at www.fulkersons.com. Fr. Ned Shinnick, died on Tuesday, August 30 at the Billings Clinic, Billings, MT....
Girl Scout Registration for 2016-17, Grades K-12, will be held at the Sidney-Richland County Library on Thursday, Sept 8th, 5:30-7:00 pm. Register online at www.gsmw.org, click on “Become a Girl Scout”, and complete registration information. Scholarships are available. If you have questions, call Joan Turek at 488-8070. They are also looking for adult volunteers, call Joan for more information....
Is being a parent draining your energy? Parents of tots to teens can use Love & Logic strategies to reenergize! Reduce the nagging and complaining from your children, promote thinking and responsibility, and give consequences with empathy. Put a laugh back into your parenting in utilizing techniques introduced in this Love and Logic series! Become a Love & Logic parent will be held from 6:30 pm to 8 pm CT on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, September 19, 27, 29, October 4 and 6. Each class will...
Do you like to ease up time spent in the kitchen when the weather allows us to enjoy our gardens and other outdoor activities? Are you busy with sporting and other events in the evenings? Freezer meals can help. The basic concept of freezer cooking is you spend time cooking a quantity of meals that will feed you or your family for two weeks or up to two months. “Making Freezer Meals with Lentils, Chickpeas and Split Peas” will be held on Monday, September 26 at the McKenzie County Extension Off...
On September 4th, Fort Union will transition to new winter hours of 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Central Time). The site is open daily throughout winter except for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s holidays. These hours will be in effect until Memorial Weekend, 2017. During winter, visitors are invited to explore the Bourgeois House Visitor Center featuring a staffed information desk, exhibits, and park videos. Exhibits include artifacts recovered during the extensive archaeological excavations that made the fort’s reconstruction possible. Park...
Bakken Oil Rush Ministry is presenting the Jeff Allen Comedy Café Saturday, Sept. 17th at the Watford City High School Performing Arts Center, 2313 Wolf Den Parkway. The venue accommodates about 500 people and the family friendly show will start at 7:00pm central time with Starbucks coffee and cheesecake served following the performance. The United Methodist Church started Bakken Oil Rush Ministry in 2013, after seeing a need for an outreach ministry in the area. The ministry has transitioned...
We don't often think of trees as weeds or "conflict" species, particularly in this part of the country, but Russian olive's rapid spread along the Yellowstone River and other riparian areas in recent years, has made it a pariah to many. Its dense canopy has displaced many native plants along the river and its long and prolific thorns have regularly impeded access to the water's edge by wildlife, livestock and recreationalists, alike. For others, the arrival of this cold-hardy, deep-rooted, ornam...
Registration is now open for the 13th Annual Young Ag Leadership Conference (YALC). This exciting, one-of-a-kind conference takes place September 30-October 2 at the Holiday Inn in Great Falls. YALC is a collaborative effort between ten of Montana’s agricultural organizations, offering attendees a chance to discuss current ag issues, take part in various workshops, meet with industry leaders and network with fellow young people who live Montana agriculture. Anyone ages 18-40 who is interested or involved in agriculture is encouraged to a...
After collecting more than 10 Tons of e-waste this past spring, local E-rase your E-waste organizers are ready to do it all over again at their annual fall collection event to be held in Sidney Sept. 9-10. “We’re excited this year because we hit another milestone with our spring collection,” E-rase your E-waste Committee Chair Jackie Couture said. “Our May collection in Sidney and Fairview brought in more than 23,000 pounds of e-waste, enough to put us over the 400,000-pound mark for all the e-waste recycled here since this event first began i...
Fall is just around the corner and with it, one the area’s most popular events, the Parade of Homes, which will take place Sunday, October 2. All proceeds will again benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Richland County with tickets going on sale September 7. Now in its 5th year, the event gives attendees an opportunity to view everything from remodels to new construction. Homes this year range from a small, single family townhouse to a 2300 sq. ft. home. Sponsored by Creative Solutions, the Parade of Homes was started as a fundraiser for the B...
The 7th Annual Eastern Montana Veterans Stand Down will be held Sept. 10th from 9:00am – 3:00pm at the Miles City VA Hospital Auditorium located at 210 Winchester Ave., Miles City, MT, 59301. The Stand Down is open to Veterans and their families who are welcome to take advantage of services and contacts such as Veteran benefit information, medical screenings, mental health counseling, and employment and education assistance. The Opening Ceremony will begin at 8:30 am and lunch will be served s...
September is National Sewing Month and the Sidney Chapter of the American Sewing Guild is inviting the public to join them as they celebrate their 20th anniversary, Thursday, Sep 15th in the Eastern Agricultural Research Center's (EARC) conference room, 1501 N Central Ave. The event will be held from 5:00pm – 8:00pm and attendants will be making tote bags with optional embellishments such as free-motion quilting, decorative stitching, appliques, and coloring on fabric with fabric markers, crayon...
The MonDak Heritage Center and Northeastern Arts Network present the Eighth Annual Oktoberfest, Friday, October 7, 7:00 pm at the MonDak Heritage Center in Sidney, Montana. Proceeds from this event provide funding for the continuing presentation of Live Music at the MonDak Heritage Center and area schools by MDHC and NAN. This year’s celebration features music from John Roberts Y Pan Blanco. John began playing the piano at the age of 5 while living on an isolated ranch in Southeastern Montana. There was no TV, but there was a piano. At age 1...
The MonDak Heritage Center will host the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau program “Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials” with Joan Bird on Friday, September 9, 2016 at 7pm. The presentation is free and open to the public. Partial funding for the Speakers Bureau program is provided by a legislative grant from Montana’s Cultural Trust and the National Endowment for the Humanities. While many UFO sightings can be conventionally explained, a small percentage of reports remain unexplained in both government and private investigations. Montana is ho...
SSh! Don’t tell. There’s a fundraiser in the works that promises to be a costumed evening of prohibition era libations, dancing and philanthropy. This year, the Roosevelt Memorial Healthcare Foundation will host its’ annual Fall Fest “Flappers & Fellas” Fundraiser on Oct. 8 at the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds. The roaring 20s event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a cocktail and mingling hour, followed by a three-course steak dinner. Micro-brewed beers will be on tap with seasonal Squashtoberfest and harvester cream ale from Meadowlark, as well a...
DON, commonly referred to as vomitoxin, is back in the fields this year. It has been two years since DON was wide spread through the region. It affects wheat and barley grain infected by Fusarium head blight (FHB) or scab. Scab may infect grain heads when wet weather occurs during the flowering and grain filling stages or plant development. Just because you have scab in your fields, that doesn’t mean you will have DON. The concentrations of DON in grain are expressed as parts per million (...
Walking to Wellness is coming up this Saturday, Sept. 10th. The purpose of the casual event is to encourage athletes of all levels to train for the half marathon. The fitness event will begin at 8:00am at the Ranger Hockey Arena, 601 7th Ave SW in Sidney, with registration starting at 7:30. Interested participants can register ahead of time at the Foundation for Community Care, 221 2nd St NW, or online at www.foundationforcommunitycare.org. The full distance is 13.1 miles, however there is a 5K...
Sidney native and 1960 Sidney High School (SHS) graduate, Bill Jones grew up on his family farm, milking cows, fishing, and agate hunting along the Yellowstone River. He grew up in a time when everybody had cool cars, his own 1950 Pontiac included. He would come home from college during the summers to work at the Eastern Montana Experiment Station, and years later his parents would sell their land to Montana Dakota Utilities where they would build the coal factory that is still there today. One...
It has been an interesting and challenging year for Sidney Sugars, Inc. and area beet growers. Most recently, a breach in Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project's main canal south of Sidney stopped irrigation water from Intake downstream. Coffer dams installed by Franz Construction and LYIP returned water to the Savage area, with approximately 5400 acres able to receive water. While 13,000 acres of beet crop are affected, the largest area of concern is about 3,000 acres on gravel ridges and sand...
Richland County 4-H held their annual livestock auction at the Richland County Fair in Sidney on August 5th. Tana Kostelecky's Grand Champion market steer was purchased by Border Steel. Marett Schieber's Grand Champion market hog was purchased by Timber Tree Service....
