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Located at 1007 Main St. in Williston, this establishment is full of design, design, design. While the name 3 Amigos is intended to tell you this is Southwestern inspired cuisine, it’s also to tell you there are three owners, Cam Holt, Aarron Parker and Mike Triska. There is over 31 years combined restaurant experience among these talented young men. Amigo, Spanish for friend is exactly what they are. They grew up together in Bismarck, ND. , then migrated to Bozeman after a visit to T...
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...
Jean F. Krause, 83, passed away on Monday, April 2, 2012 at the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow, MT. Jean was born on June 6, 1928 in Sidney, MT, the daughter of Earl Otto and Elizabeth Jeptha (Clark) Minser. She was raised and attended schools in Sidney, graduating from Sidney High School in 1956. She then attended Northern Montana College in Havre and graduated in 1948. She worked briefly in California and then at the hospital in Sidney. On July 14, 1951 Jean married Earl F. Krause in Sidney. Except for living in Tracy, California from...
Cooks on Main, Williston, is a store full of culinary candy! The tools are fun and vibrantly toned; jam-packed with implements designed to enhance the cooking experience. Enthusiastic displays brighten the interior and delight the visual palate! The inventory is broad and enchanting; employing all the major brands a cultured chef expects and enticing the whimsy of the home cook who may be experienced and those who are just beginning. If you are looking for the latest and greatest, this market...
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...
After serving Sidney Sugars and the community for nearly ten years, Steve Sing, Sidney Sugars General Manager, will retire effective the end of May. During his tenure, Sing has seen many changes at the factory and he has helped initiate and implement goals for the sugar plant to meet. "We've made changes at the factory in efforts to improve the processing as much as possible," Sing remarks. "We always strive to be more efficient at what we do." Sing has emphasized safety procedures and training...
What a difference a year can make. Last year at the start of the planting season, sugarbeet growers worried about excessive moisture, a cool spring, flooding, and their ability to get a crop planted in time. This year they face opposite conditions, with unusually warm temperatures and very dry conditions the norm. If these conditions persist into the near future, many growers will begin planting sugarbeets earlier than usual. "In a normal year, growers start planting by the 20th of April," says...
The MonDak has always stood out as an agricultural area, which is the prime reason many of us chose to make this region our home. We liked the farming way of life and preferred the peace of the country to the bustle of commercial centers. Well, our cherished way of life has practically vanished as agriculture and its lifestyle has had to move aside for the oil industry. The oil boom continues to trump agriculture in numerous ways and many area farmers feel that in the coming years, agriculture i...
Robert Newberry, “Master Barber”, has moved to Sax Barber Shop, Watford City. Newberry moved from Kansas and Atlanta, GA and is truly a master barber with 20 years experience and master barber graduate of Roffler Moler College. Business was slow in Kansas and he had heard of the oil boom in North Dakota. Not being experienced in the oil field he contacted the North Dakota Barbering Association and they put him in touch with Marlene Sax, Sax Barber Shop owner. Sax was looking to retire after ove...
The MonDak has always stood out as an agricultural area, which is the prime reason many of us chose to make this region our home. We liked the farming way of life and preferred the peace of the country to the bustle of commercial centers. Well, our cherished way of life has practically vanished as agriculture and its lifestyle has had to move aside for the oil industry. The oil boom continues to trump agriculture in numerous ways and many area farmers feel that in the coming years, agriculture i...
It’s nothing new to those living in the Bakken to pay higher gas prices than the rest of Montana and North Dakota. Go east or west and the price of gas is normally on average up to $.10 lower than the boom towns of eastern Montana and western North Dakota due to the increased demand of the oil industry services. The crude oil price rose in recent weeks because of increased tensions and fears of an Iranian supply cut. Gas prices have been rising because of the soaring oil prices. Surprisingly, o...
Small gestures of empathy and kindness can go a long way toward improving the quality of life for those finding themselves in hard times. It can even create award winning programs that work to better the quality of life for community members finding themselves in the middle of a whirlwind of expansion and turmoil during the Bakken oil boom. The Fellowship Baptist Church, Sidney, recently received the “Ready Montana Award” from the Governor’s Office of Community Service, the Montana Commi...
Montana State University Extension and Montana Small Business Administration (SBA) will sponsor the webinar “Small Business Financing: Financing Your Business in a Booming Economy” on Wednesday, Feb. 22 from noon-1 p.m. Information on financing a start-up or expansion of a business during an oil boom will be included. The webinar will feature Gregg Gluekert, a commercial lender at a community bank in Billings, and the owner of several businesses in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota. In addition, George Haynes, MSU Extension eco...
Railroads seem to be experiencing a renaissance of sorts as the volume of crude oil pumped out of the Bakken continues to set records. U.S. railroads lost about six years of rail-traffic progress as a result of the recession. Shale drilling activities are helping to lead the charge with investments made during the past two years by oil and rail companies due to the accelerated growth in oil related traffic in the past four years. With the controversies regarding pipelines, railroads are laying...
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...
The Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture will host a new event this year, the Bakken Brew Fest, scheduled for Saturday, March 10 at the Richland County Fair Event Center. Activities include sampling a variety of specialty brews, and this year one of the featured beers will be Bakken Bock, a unique microbrew dark lager beer produced by Bayern Brewery, Missoula, and developed specifically with the MonDak region and its Bakken oil resources in mind. The idea for a specialty brew...
Fred Lake has announced his candidacy for the State Senate District 19 seat currently held by Sen. Don Steinbeisser. The Senate District includes portions of Richland, Dawson and Wibaux counties. "I want to make sure Eastern Montana's growth continues in a responsible way, and ensure that our communities remain viable," said Lake. "The growth we're experiencing in Eastern Montana should not be boom and bust. In the legislature, I will help create diversified business opportunities and jobs, so...
Until very recently, we’ve considered the MonDak a pastoral area, with agriculture playing the major role in the economics of the region. That has all changed in the blink of an eye, as oil continues to make larger and larger inroads in this formerly rural culture. With two very different industries, oil and agriculture, both using the land, problems can arise. Oil and agriculture don’t always cohabitate peacefully; misunderstandings arise, spills and accidents may happen that contaminate wat...
The Roundup has selected B&B Builders as one of this year’s Top Ten recipients. B&B Builders has shown that they care deeply about Sidney, as not only did they initiate and spearhead the drive to obtain new playground equipment for West Side Elementary, but this year they also purchased the J.C. Penney building, the old Sidney Electric building, and the old Green Leaf building, all located in one block on Main Street. B&B made this purchase to help keep downtown Sidney healthy and strong. ...
The oil industry activity in the MonDak region increased in 2011 more than anyone ever imagined. The recent activity being called a boom had everyone skeptical, but the refinement of horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing, called fracking, has made this boom possible. During the current boom the workers have come ahead of the infrastructure and the region is scrambling to accommodate but sometimes with hesitancy. Many remember the region’s last boom 30 years ago. When crude p...
The current oil boom has brought many changes for the MonDak area in the past year. With the plethora of jobs available in the oil industry, our small communities have seen people from all over the U.S. coming to find work. Oil companies boasting a multitude of job openings and national news coverage of our boomtowns has brought more people arriving in the area every week. The unemployment rate in the U.S. has people who have been out of work for a long time heading for western North Dakota and...
As discussions and controversy continue about whether or not the McKenzie County Commissioners should enact a county-wide land use plan, the divide seems to continue with some residents adamantly for it, others opposing it and others somewhere in between. With the oil boom expansion and population explosion, the landscape of Northeast Montana and Western North Dakota is changing rapidly with buildings going up seemingly overnight. How community members feel about the rapid expansion and creep...
The Missouri River Conservation District Council (MRCDC), comprised of the 15 conservation districts in the Missouri River Corridor held their quarterly meeting in Culbertson on Sept 26. The MRCDC provides leadership, assistance and guidance to conservation districts along the Missouri River Corridor, their goal is to share perspectives, solve problems and exchange information on Missouri River resource management. In this light the Lower Missouri Coordinated Resource Management (LoMo CRM), the...
The Dry Redwater Regional Authority (DRWA) has asked the Richland County Commissioners to fund a portion of the DRWA rural water system. Without this funding, the project will go on hold for several years due to new government regulations and required paperwork. Brian Milne, Interstate Engineering president, Sidney, the consulting firm assisting DRWA in its efforts to provide water for rural residents, explains that if the county provides funding, the project can begin construction as early as...
For the 38th straight year, Sidney Sugars Agriculturist Kerry Rasmussen has supervised beet harvest, organizing and training pile ground employees, working with growers, and doing everything possible to ensure that beet harvest runs as smoothly and trouble-free as possible for everyone. Rasmussen, who plans to retire from Sidney Sugars in the spring, expects harvest 2011 will be his last harvest as an agriculturist. “It’s been a good run,” Rasmussen remarks. “I’ve served at every pile ground in...
