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On Saturday, April 28, the University of Mary, America’s Leadership University, recognized 1,043 graduates with a total of 1,113 degrees, at its 2012 commencement. This will be the second straight year that the number of degrees awarded in a given year has surpassed 1,000 and the largest graduating class in the university’s history — up from a record 990 in 2011. During the ceremony, the University of Mary awarded a total of 482 undergraduate and 594 master’s degrees. This year, for the first time, the Bachelor of Science in Respira...
The Eastern C Divisional Track Meet took place in Glasgow....
There will be a scheduled AARP Safe-Driving Class held at the Roosevelt Complex Building Meeting Room at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 9 for four hours. With limited instructors in the area and trying to get those participants that need to get the course taken for insurance on vehicle discounts, a meeting has been set in Culbertson. You need to pre-register by May 7. To register you need to send a copy of your driver’s license and AARP membership card, if you are a member, and a check payable to AARP for $12 for members of AARP or $14 for n...
To help teachers obtain needed continuing education credits and at the same time educate them on area history and heritage, the Montana State University Extension Services will offer a two day teacher training workshop in Sidney that will explore pioneer life, agriculture as it was a century ago, and what farm children learned in school. Participating offices include Culbertson, Scobey, and Sidney. "Teachers need to accumulate credits over a period of time, and this workshop is a way of doing...
There will be a scheduled AARP Safe-Driving Class held at the Roosevelt Complex Building Meeting Room at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 9 for four hours. With limited instructors in the area and trying to get those participants that need to get the course taken for insurance on vehicle discounts, a meeting has been set in Culbertson. You need to pre-register by May 7. To register you need to send a copy of your driver’s license and AARP membership card, if you are a member, and a check payable to AARP for $12 for members of AARP or $14 for n...
Funeral services for Howard Hoff were held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, 2012 at the Richland County Event Center in Sidney, MT. Burial was 2 p.m. on Friday, April 20th at the Sidney Cemetery. Friends gathered at the Fulkerson Funeral Home prior to going to the Cemetery. Howard died Saturday, April 14, 2012, near Culbertson, MT while riding his motorcycle....
U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-MT, held an energy jobs roundtable last Wednesday at the MSU Eastern Ag Research Station, Sidney. He was joined by USDA Rural Development Deputy Undersecretary Cheryl Cook, U.S. Small Business Administration leaders and other state officials in a call to action to support Eastern Montana in their struggles to solve oil impact issues. Baucus explained that a multi-agency “one-stop-shop-” in Sidney has been established dedicated to the infrastructure and development nee...
Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus will be in Culbertson at the Dry Prairie Rural Water Authority, 5808 Hwy. 16, on April 4 at 10:30 a.m. to announce the latest breakthroughs in his call to the White House to unleash every appropriate resource to assist with the infrastructure needs of Montana communities most impacted by the energy boom in the Bakken. “Montana communities throughout the Bakken region are some of the nation’s most dynamic areas for job growth – it’s only fair that they get the tools necessary not only to absorb the shock...
Montana State University Extension will sponsor a free webinar “Mineral Leasing in Montana”, on Wednesday, April 4, from 10-11 a.m. Featuring Tim Fitzgerald, assistant professor of MSU Agricultural Economics assistant professor, the webinar will outline the importance of the leasing process, current trends in oil and gas development in Montana, structure of an oil and gas lease, and related concerns. Both mineral and surface owners will find the discussion useful, as well as owners with existing leases. Participants will also be provided a che...
For many who have driven along US Highway 2 for years, the old weathered telegraph poles littering the landscape between the ditches and railroad tracks are nothing more than weathered reminders of the old telephone lines the railroad decided to have cut down years ago. During the years they lay on the earthen ground intertwined with weeds and prairie landscape causing the wood to crack and stress, a rustic reminder of how unforgiving the elements can truly be in this part of the country. For...
The pace of ringing telephones has quickened in recent days at the Roosevelt County Agricultural Extension Services Agency, Culbertson, as more people are getting anxious about getting in the garden. The unseasonably mild winter has many locals ready to get out and get planting. “Everyone seems to be getting the itch to plant but at this time it is still a gamble. There is still time for Mother Nature to throw us a curve and then all of that effort would have been for nothing,” said Ann Ron...
As part of the Montana Department of Transportation’s efforts to identify users of untaxed fuel, department personnel will be setting up a diesel fuel inspection site in the Culbertson area during the week of March 26. Operators of diesel-powered vehicles will be directed to pull over for a brief period while personnel verify that the proper fuel is being used on the roadway....
Sherry Whited-Arnold Remembrance bracelets are being sold at the following places: Watford City Grazing Association Office (contact Keith Winter); in Culbertson contact Tam Crowder 406-480-3279; in Sidney at White Drug or contact Tammy Pedersen at 406-489-0451 or Kathy Johnson at 406-480-5599. Proceeds are going to a scholarship fund in memory of Sherry....
District 2-C Basketball Tournament Results Girls 1st Fairview, 2nd Culbertson, 3rd Circle, 4th Savage Boys 1st Fairview, 2nd Savage, 3rd Culbertson, 4th Westby-Grenora...
The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) is holding the first informational meeting on the Culbertson Corridor Planning Study on Wednesday, March 7, beginning at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Town Hall, 210 Broadway, Culbertson. The purpose of the meeting is to inform the community on the corridor study scope and purpose, take questions, and solicit input from the community on the existing conditions and concerns within the corridor. Community participation is a very important part in identifying issues and shaping future...
Sherry Whited-Arnold Remembrance bracelets are being sold at the following places: Watford City Grazing Association Office (contact Keith Winter); in Culbertson contact Tam Crowder 406-480-3279; in Sidney at White Drug or contact Tammy Pedersen at 406-489-0451 or Kathy Johnson at 406-480-5599. Proceeds are going to a scholarship fund in memory of Sherry....
Areas receiving large increases in population because of the oil boom that has hit Northeast Montana and Western North Dakota aren’t the only people adapting to the times. As new types of housing come into the area the Montana Department of Environmental Quality is experiencing growing pains of their own as they scramble to define how these subdivisions are to be regulated and how to fit them into their statutes. In the last 20 years, there have been less than 30 new lots created in Northeast Mo...
Local news and rumors have been stating that an 800-person man camp is underway just west of Dore. The camp is located on Richland County Road 137 just north of Valley View Feedlot, Fairview. The first unit of the first group of trailers was being placed Monday morning by workers and a crane. A spokesman on the site said this is just the first unit of a smaller camp planned to go in. He said the company who owns the property, Sun Valley Oil, has applied for a permit for an 800-person workforce...
Top five growers (50-246 acres) are front row (L to R): 1st - Tveit Land and Cattle Co. (Nolan and Larry Tveit Jr.), Fairview and Culbertson; 2nd - Gary and Duane Lapp, Miles City; 3rd - James Bieber, Fairview; 4th - KAR Inc. (Miles Knudsen), Culbertson; 5th - Carol and Allen Lachenmaier, Miles City. Top five growers (greater than 246 acres) are back row (L to R): 1st - 6J Farms (Terry Cayko and Toby Miller), East Fairview; 2nd-Payette Farms Inc. (Kent and Jantz Payette), Fairview; 3r d -...
The Tveit Land and Cattle Company, Culbertson and Fairview, has earned top honors this year in the Sidney Sugars Incorporated annual Top Ten growers list. Brothers Larry and Nolan Tveit brought in an outstanding sugarbeet crop this year which earned them the number 1 ranking in the 50-246 acre category. The Tveits, farming together since they both graduated from high school, have an irrigated farm in Culbertson and a dryland farm between Sidney and Culbertson. With the exception of a two-year hi...
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will be holding three public meetings in eastern Montana to discuss permitting requirements and procedures for subdivisions and public water supplies in response to increasing demand for housing in areas of oil and gas development. Department staff will be discussing the Sanitation in Subdivisions Act, creating new lots, recreational vehicle camps, trailer courts, and the submittal and review process. Montana Public Water Supply Laws will also be discussed including how public water supply...
Area residents are among 654 students named to the Fall Semester Dean’s List at the University of Mary, America’s Leadership University, Bismarck. This number includes students in U-Mary’s undergraduate program and in the Centers of Accelerated and Distance Education (C.A.D.E.). To qualify for the honor, traditional undergraduate students must earn a 3.50 or better grade point average while carrying at least 12 credit hours. Students enrolled in U-Mary’s Centers of Accelerated and Distance Education (C.A.D.E.) program must earn a 3.50 or bett...
Sidney Sugars Incorporated held its annual Top Ten Grower award luncheon on Wednesday, Jan. 18 to honor those growers who brought in an outstanding crop. Russ Fullmer, Sidney Sugars agriculture manager, congratulated the top ten growers and pointed out that they, along with the rest of the Valley, faced a lot of challenges this year. “Last year, we came off a bad winter to start the growing season,” Fullmer noted at the luncheon. “We had a huge amount of snow, then spring came and it rained and...
The Tveit Land and Cattle Company, Culbertson and Fairview, has earned top honors this year in the Sidney Sugars Incorporated annual Top Ten growers list. Brothers Larry and Nolan Tveit brought in an outstanding sugarbeet crop this year which earned them the number 1 ranking in the 50-246 acre category. The Tveits, farming together since they both graduated from high school, have an irrigated farm in Culbertson and a dryland farm between Sidney and Culbertson. With the exception of a two-year hi...
The disappearance of Sherry Arnold, the Sidney math teacher who went missing on Jan. 7 has devastated the communities in the area surrounding Sidney, but hasn’t changed the community spirit of helping your neighbor. Schools that normally are competing against each other in sports events are showing their support to the Sidney Public Schools and the Arnold family. Students from all Fairview Schools went to Sidney High School last Friday morning to take orders for coffee for the teachers and s...
