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Kim and Casey Schlothauer are one of many rural farm families residing east of Fairview, ND affected by the flooding of the Yellowstone River earlier this spring. On their 780 acre farm the couple is raising a young family while supporting the production of wheat and beet crops for the year. "Wheat crop harvest is delayed but only due to recent rains," Kim states. "The farm ground in our area dried quickly after the flood waters receded in the spring not causing much delay in planting for us."...
McKenzie County Extension will be having an educational and informative in-crop weed forum. We will be working in conjunction with the Williston Research Extension Center as well as many reputable guest speakers. We will cover topics such as biology of a few select weeds affecting producers, non-chemical control and regulation of infestations, identification of upcoming or new weeds; maintenance of a weed problem and control of an infestation. This is a free event with free lunch provided by the McKenzie County Crop Seed Improvement...
E-rase your E-waste organizers have announced the dates for their annual fall collection event: Friday and Saturday, Sept. 6-7, but have also noted a time change for Saturday. That collection will now end at noon mountain time, according to event coordinator Beth Redlin. Collection times are now 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 7. The event is open to area residents throughout the MonDak. “Our e-cycler, Yellowstone E-waste Solutions of Billings, requested the change and since the bulk of our traffic c...
State and local public health officials are reporting the season’s first West Nile Virus (WNV) detections with three counties reporting positive mosquito samples. Cascade, Sheridan and Yellowstone counties have all had a positive mosquito sample for WNV. To date, no cases of WNV have been identified in a human but the detection of WNV in Montana is a reminder of the importance of avoiding mosquito bites. Most people who become infected with WNV experience no symptoms but 1 in 5 develop a mild illness, with symptoms such as headache, body a...
Cleaning out your closets this fall? Let us help! The annual E-rase your E-waste collection event is coming up on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 6-7 in Sidney and everyone is invited to bring their damaged and outdated electronic equipment for FREE recycling. You need not be from Richland County to participate. Yellowstone E-waste Solutions of Billings is again the e-cycler for this collection, which will be held at the Richland County Shop at 2140 W. Holly in Sidney, next to the Fairgrounds. Currently, organizers are planning a few changes for...
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is seeking public comment on tentative changes to Montana’s fishing regulations for the 2020 season. The Fish and Wildlife Commission will review the tentative regulations for public comment on August 15. Tentative Changes for Eastern Montana Fishing Regulations include: • Increased Sauger daily & possession limit on the Yellowstone River, upstream of Forsyth, from one daily and two in possession to two daily and four in possession. • Reorganize Paddlefish regulations for simplicity, clarity and compr...
Cleaning out your closets this fall? Let us help! The annual E-rase your E-waste collection event is coming up on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 6-7 in Sidney and everyone is invited to bring their damaged and outdated electronic equipment for FREE recycling. You need not be from Richland County to participate. Yellowstone E-waste Solutions of Billings is again the e-cycler for this collection, which will be held at the Richland County Shop at 2140 W. Holly in Sidney, next to the Fairgrounds. Currently, organizers are planning a few changes for...
The Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce that this year’s leadership program will feature 15 participants. The class will include JD Mulkey of Stockman Bank, Jackie Miller of Interstate Engineering, Shay Steinbeisser of Agri-Industries, Nick Kallem of Sidney Schools, Tonya Schoepp of Sidney Health Center, Kaila Dally of Sidney Health Center, Harleigh Manley of Sidney Herald, Janelle Chamberlain of the Boys & Girls Club, Bill Vander Weele of the Sidney Chamber, Heidi Moran of the Richland County Health Department, Amy Bieber o...
A team of German Wrestlers traveled to Montana this summer for exibition duals and a lot of fun. Each year there is a wrestling cultural exchange with Germany and Montana. The wrestling programs alternate years that the teams will travel to the host county. This year Germany traveled to Montana. Next year a Montana team will travel to Germany. The German team is from Baden Württemberg in south west Germany. The wrestlers are from ages 15 to 23 and are coached by Steffen Blocher and team leader...
BOZEMAN – A Montana State University doctoral student has received a $100,000 fellowship from a honey bee-focused nonprofit to advance his work studying antiviral defense mechanisms in bees. Alex McMenamin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Molecular Biosciences Program, partnered with MSU's Microbiology and Immunology Department in the colleges of Agriculture and Letters and Science. McMenamin has been working with adviser Michelle Flenniken, an assistant professor in the Plant Sciences and Plant P...
Glendive, MT - The Rotary Club of Glendive and the Dawson College Foundation recently announced that a $750 scholarship has been awarded to Haley Olson of Richey. Haley Olson is the daughter of Harlyn and Jana Olson. Throughout high school, she participated in leadership roles in student council, FFA, and various athletic teams. Olson plans to attend Dawson Community College where she will play basketball and focus her studies towards a future career in Allied Health and Nursing. "I am grateful...
WILLISTON, N.D. – The public is invited to these upcoming events at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center (MYCIC) near Williston. All events are free and open to the public. All times are Central Time. August 3: Scrapbooking at the Confluence, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Participants should bring their own materials and lunch. August 15: Confluence History Book Club, 7 p.m. Join history buffs in a discussion of this month's selected book. Free refreshments. August 16-17: Confluence Quilters, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Join the Confluence Quilters at t...
The "Confluence of Creativity Art Exhibit" is the brainchild of two local artists, Afton Ray-Rossol of Sidney, and Trish Stevenson of Savage, Montana. Whenever the two of them get together, anything to do with art is naturally the main topic and it was during one of these discussions that they realized there are quite a number of talented creatives in the local region of the MonDak area – both artists and musicians, whose work reflects our unique neck of the woods. The two artists approached t...
Richland Federal Credit Union (RFCU) of Sidney and Culbertson began at a Farmers Union Oil Company meeting back in 1939. Fifty founding members saw a need for a local credit union in Sidney and the Richland County Cooperators Credit Union was chartered in accordance with the Federal Credit Union Act of 1934. RFCU will be celebrating their 80th anniversary on August 2. The foundation of RFCU was built around the Farmers Union Oil Company principles. The field of membership needed a common bond....
The 2018-2019 4-H year, thus far, has been an amazing experience for the 216 4-H members and 119 adult volunteers in the 10 active 4-H clubs in Richland County. 4-H focuses on growing confident, capable and caring youth through science, citizenship and healthy living projects that provide hands on learning and engagement in their home and community. 4-H has come a long way since its beginning in 1902. 4-H now offers a wide variety of projects including animal science, aerospace, robotics, woodworking, entomology, shooting sports, sport...
Local artists Trish Stevenson and Afton Ray have gathered a treasure trove of local and regional artists to the "Confluence of Creativity" at the MonDak Heritage Center in Sidney. The show, which runs through July 27, will feature about 14 different artists including painters, a book illustrator, a glass artist and more, plus musical acts. The Roundup will be regularly featuring artists from the show. Linda Conradsen A lifetime Montanan, Linda uses the rugged countryside and native creatures of...
Every year since 1946, on the third weekend of July the people of Fairview, Montana have come together to reminisce and honor the people who have made a difference in the community. This year, 2019, Eddie Buxbaum will get his face on the Fairview Old Timer's Reunion and Summer Festival button. Eddie was not born here. His family moved from Nebraska to Crane, Montana way back in 1930. He spent most of his childhood there until, in 1943, his father bought a farm north of Fairview. There, the...
Williston, ND – The public is invited to these upcoming events at the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center (MYCIC) near Williston. All events are free and open to the public. All times are Central time. July 18: Confluence History Book Club, 7 p.m. Join history buffs in a discussion of this month’s selected book. Free refreshments. July 19-20 Confluence Quilters, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Join the Confluence Quilters at their monthly meeting. All experience levels invited and instruction provided. For more information, contact Debbie Cro...
The small cost of buying a button for the Sunrise Festival of the Arts this year can easily be made back by taking advantage of the various sale offerings available in Sidney on Saturday, July 13. Buttons for the Sunrise Festival of the Arts are $4 in advance or $5 the day of the event. Buttons are available at the Sidney Chamber, Stockman Bank, Richland Federal Credit Union and Yellowstone Bank. The event is 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 13 at Veterans Memorial Park. When people purchase a ticket,...
On June 29, 2019 at about 2:30 p.m. the Richland County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a 21-foot boat that had overturned on the Yellowstone River near Benny Pierre Creek and CR 122. It was found that two adults and one child were boating on the river and had pulled close to the bank and attempted to retrieve something from the edge of the bank. A large part of the bank gave away onto the boat, knocking one of the adults out of the boat, and then causing the boat to overturn. The other adult and child then were trapped under the boat. Th...
The 2019 paddlefishing harvest season on the Yellowstone and Lower Missouri rivers wrapped up on June 1, condensing the harvest into a two-week window. High catch rates on May 31 heading into Memorial Day weekend prompted FWP to give notice of the harvest season closure on June 1 at 9 p.m. This accommodated paddlefishing the entire Saturday of the holiday weekend, which proved to be a busy harvest day. Following the harvest season closure, anglers were allowed to catch and release paddlefish...
Dick Iversen and Buzz Mattelin attended the Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee (MRRIC) plenary session May 21 – 23 in Sioux Falls, SD serving as representatives of Richland and Roosevelt Conservation Districts. Dick and Buzz had both previously served as stakeholder representatives on the Committee but were attending this meeting to represent the interests of irrigators and agriculture producers in the area below Fort Peck dam to the Yellowstone River Confluence. The Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee (MRRIC) s...
The Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture announces that the 29th annual Sunrise Festival of the Arts, presented by XTO Energy, will feature a new and expanded Kids Corner on Saturday, July 13. The segment will now be called Arch’s Kids Corner after the late Arch Ellwein, who was an outstanding contributor to the Sunrise Festival of the Arts for many years. A Lemonade Stand Contest will be one of the features of Arch’s Kids Corner. Youngsters are urged to build a stand, sell their lem...
Every year since 1946, on the third weekend of July the people of Fairview, Montana have come together to reminisce and honor the people who have made a difference in the community. This year, 2019, Eddie Buxbaum will get his face on the Fairview Old Timer's Reunion and Summer Festival button. Eddie was not born here. His family moved from Nebraska to Crane, Montana way back in 1930. He spent most of his childhood there until, in 1943, his father bought a farm north of Fairview. There, the...
