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Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project started rocking the Yellowstone River Monday, July 25. The almost yearly event begins with mining the huge rock, identifying low spots by boat and then using a trolley system to deliver the rock to where it is needed. Adding rock raises the water level at a crucial time for irrigators and it helps protect against ice floes in the spring....
Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project faces another hurdle with public comment on the Intake Diversion Dam Fish Project Environmental Impact Statement. The draft EIS is now available through Reclamation’s Lower Yellowstone Project Website: http://www.usbr.gov/gp/mtao/loweryellowstone/index.html. The public comment period opened on Friday, June 3, 2016 when the Environmental Protection Agency published the Notice of Availability (NOA) in the Federal Register. The public comment period will run until July 28, 2016. Comments can be submitted t...
The Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project, Richland Economic Development Corp, and Sidney Sugars, Inc. would like to extend their deepest thanks to the following sponsors for their support towards the bus trips made to Glendive and to Billings to attend the public hearings for the EIS of the LYIP and Intake: Action Auto Agri-Industries B & B Builders Blue Rock Double A, Inc. East Mont Footers Gavilon Horizon Resources Johnson Hardware &Furniture Merchants Bank Mid-Rivers Communications Mon Dak Beet Growers Nortana Grain NW Farm Credit Services...
The MonDak Heritage Center and the Active Richland County Action Group will continue to host art walks every Friday through July 29, 2016. The final three weeks will feature youth art produced at summer art camps held at the MonDak Heritage Center, and art classes held at The GalleRay. The art walk will start at the Meadowlark Brewery downtown, and end at the MonDak Heritage Center. Maps for the walk will be on hand at the Meadowlark. Attendees can complete the art walk anytime starting Friday morning, and a reception for the artists and their...
For many people, Thursday’s Co-Op Day at the Fair entails a momentary stop at the sponsor tent for a complimentary root beer float- and an equally hasty return to other Fair-afternoon happenings. However, this day has more behind it than simply a free cooldown for fairgoers. The event was set in motion in 2000 by Kelly Knaff of the Lower Yellowstone Rural Electric Association, one of the seven original co-ops which contributed to the day. Other members include Richland Federal Credit Union, Farm Credit Services, Mid-Rivers Communications, N...
The 4-H program in Richland County has been growing. Richland County 4-H has 12 active and incredible clubs that have been participating all year in many different 4-H events. With all the growth in the 4-H program, the livestock barns and exhibit building at the fair will be full of exciting exhibits for people of all ages. The 4-H Exhibit Building this year will have a vast display of projects completed by Richland County 4-H members. In the 4-H program, youth have the opportunity to partake...
Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project faces another hurdle with public comment on the Intake Diversion Dam Fish Project Environmental Impact Statement. The draft EIS is now available through Reclamation’s Lower Yellowstone Project Website: http://www.usbr.gov/gp/mtao/loweryellowstone/index.html. The public comment period opened on Friday, June 3, 2016 when the Environmental Protection Agency published the Notice of Availability (NOA) in the Federal Register. The public comment period will run until July 28, 2016. Three public meetings were h...
Richland Economic Development Corp. is please to announce that the Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) committee has awarded its fourteenth loan for the opening of a business in Sidney. Jennifer and Terri Moore were approved for a loan to re-open the Pizza House. Jennifer completed an application in partnership with her lead lender, Donald Garsjo, of Yellowstone Bank of Sidney, and presented this project to the RLF committee for review. The funding request was to purchase the business, equipment and...
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines’ bill that moves Montana rural water projects forward and ensures the completion of authorized projects across Montana today cleared the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The Western Water Supply and Planning Enhancement Act is a bill that would help improve the efficiency of existing water supply infrastructure, ease the regulatory burden on new projects and protect water rights that are critical to the prosperity of the western United States. The bill also accelerates imp...
Art walk to continue take place in Sidney every Friday, now extended through July 29, 2016. The MonDak Heritage Center and the Active Richland County Action Group will continue to host art walks every Friday through July 29, 2016. The final three weeks will feature youth art produced at summer art camps held at the MonDak Heritage Center, and art classes held at The GalleRay. The art walk will start at the Meadowlark Brewery downtown, and end at the MonDak Heritage Center. Maps for the walk will be on hand at the Meadowlark. Attendees can...
Hundreds of members of the public gathered at meetings in Sidney, Glendive and Billings this week regarding the Intake Diversion Dam Fish Passage Project. Staff from the U.S Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District presented six alternatives to determine the future of the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project. The public was then open to express their comments and concerns regarding the possible alternatives. David Trimpe of the Bureau of...
WILLISTON – The public is invited to the Second and Sixth Infantry Encampment at Fort Buford State Historic Site July 16-17 featuring historical demonstrations, a fashion show, and a dance. All events are free and open to the public. On July 16 at 2 p.m. the Second and Sixth Infantry re-enactors will perform military drill demonstrations, followed by a 2:30 p.m. cannon demonstration and a 3 p.m. telegraph demonstration. A dance is scheduled for the evening at 7 p.m. featuring Sunrise Brass. July 17 will feature a Fashion Show at 1 p.m. s...
The Miles City Fish Hatchery has played host to some very important and unusual visitors for the past month. Three male pallid sturgeons from the Missouri River in Montana, estimated to be up to 80 years old, have been kept in a large holding tank at the facility. They were brought there so that Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks can harvest their milt to fertilize eggs, part of the agency's efforts to bolster this endangered, prehistoric species. Hatchery reproduction and stocking of pallid...
A wide variety of topics were covered during the dryland field day presented by the Sidney ARS and MSU EARC on Friday. Phil Bruckner, professor/wheat breeder from MSU Bozeman, presented the feature presentation on the EARC stops by discussing varieties of winter wheat. Bruckner said that officials expect to see high levels of winter kills at the locations in Sidney and Williston. “It’s good for a research standpoint, but not so good if you’re growing wheat,” Bruckner said. He notes varieti...
Hundreds of members of the public gathered at meetings in Sidney, Glendive and Billings this week regarding the Intake Diversion Dam Fish Passage Project. Staff from the U.S Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District presented six alternatives to determine the future of the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project. The public was then open to express their comments and concerns regarding the possible alternatives. David Trimpe of the Bureau of Reclamation and Tiffany Vanosdall of the Army Corps...
Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project faces another hurdle with public comment on the Intake Diversion Dam Fish Project Environmental Impact Statement. The draft EIS is now available through Reclamation’s Lower Yellowstone Project Website: http://www.usbr.gov/gp/mtao/loweryellowstone/index.html. The public comment period opened on Friday, June 3, 2016 when the Environmental Protection Agency published the Notice of Availability (NOA) in the Federal Register. The public comment period will run until July 28, 2016. Three public meetings were h...
Garth Kallevig, president of Stockman Bank in Sidney, said he wasn't too concerned when he first heard about the controversy pertaining to pallid sturgeon and the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project years ago. "I honestly didn't take it too seriously," Kallevig said during the community meeting in Sidney on June 21. "I thought we were more the Goliath and the environmentalists were the David. I thought common sense would prevail." Flash forward and concerns about the community's economic...
A first-time ever event scheduled in Sidney is drawing nearer as the Billings Symphony will perform at Veterans Memorial Park on July 8. "We are very excited to connect with more people throughout the region. We very much want to perform for more audiences and work with kids all over, not just in Billings or Yellowstone County," Darren M. Rich, executive director of the Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, said. "We were very flattered to be invited to perform in Sidney, and we see this as...
Phase I of Sidney’s three-phase sewer lagoon project has been working well for more than a year, according to Sidney’s city officials. That opinion became an official statement when the city council members agreed to send out a closing out phase letter and an affirmative certification to state authorities. “After one year of operation, a certification to the state is needed that it’s been working for a year,” Pat Murtagh, Murtagh Municipal Engineers, told council members. “Phase I is done and...
Like the subject of his large mural, noted Montana artist J.K Ralston's "Return of the Raiders" has found its home at the Montana Historical Society after a long and winding journey. The 15-foot long mural was unloaded after being restored by John Hartmann Preservation in Carlisle, Penn., and immediately installed in Montana's Museum in the Montana Homeland Exhibit. The mural was commissioned in 1953 by Joe Swindlehurst for his Empire Savings and Loan Bank in Livingston. His son, also Joe, and...
A wide variety of topics were covered during the dryland field day presented by the Sidney ARS and MSU EARC on Friday. Phil Bruckner, professor/wheat breeder from MSU Bozeman, presented the feature presentation on the EARC stops by discussing varieties of winter wheat. Bruckner said that officials expect to see high levels of winter kills at the locations in Sidney and Williston. "It's good for a research standpoint, but not so good if you're growing wheat," Bruckner said. He notes varieties...
Some of Montana's earliest recorded history played out on the eastern fringes of our state. Through Fort Union, this "Confluence Country" held supremacy over the fur trade business of the Upper Missouri from about 1830 until the 1850s. On April 27, 1805, the Corps of Discovery, after having spent a few days at the joining of the two rivers, (just across the state line in North Dakota), first entered what would become Montana Territory. Meriwether Lewis noted in the expedition journals ... "we sa...
On June 21, commissioners from Blaine, Carbon, Carter, Dawson, Fallon, Fergus, Garfield, McCone, Musselshell, Phillips, Pondera, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sheridan, Toole, Wibaux and Yellowstone counties met in Lewistown for the annual meeting of the Montana Association of Oil, Gas, and Coal Counties. The ironic lack of representation from Petroleum County is somewhat indicative of the current state of oil and gas development in Montana. In addition to the attending commissioners we...
The importance of keeping operations going at the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation District is greater for the City of Sidney than even many residents realize. Along with the tremendous hit the economy would feel, the City of Sidney would also have concerns about its water aquifer. “The canal recharges our aquifer to a great extent,” Greg Anderson, Sidney’s water department superintendent, said. “The biggest thing is that big recharge that we would be losing.” Without the canal in operation...
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said that after nearly 50 people were killed by a shooter in Orlando, Fla., this month that the government must stop talking and start acting. “It’s time we work together to try to prevent actions of hate and intolerance,” Tester told state reporters during a conference call last week. Tester said national security must be improved. The country needs to also keep guns out of the hands of terrorists and strengthen its border security. The senator noted a bill that...
