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Colorado singer-songwriter Rebecca Folsom and her band will perform on Oct. 26 as part of the Northeastern Arts Network Big Sky Concert Series. This concert will be held at the MonDak Heritage Center (406-433-3500) in Sidney at 7 p.m. Folsom believes every lyric, every note, every musical collaboration carries the potency to change the world. With her new recording, Sanctuary, she is on a mission to do that one listener at a time. Moving with ease through her four-octave range she plucks the...
Sidney Health Center was recently awarded the Montana Rural Healthcare Performance Improvement Network's Quality Program of the Year Award for its efforts in quality patient care. The Montana Rural Healthcare Performance Improvement Network (PIN) is a voluntary membership of 49 critical access hospitals throughout the state. Through this Network, member hospitals are able to benchmark their performance with their peers on a variety of financial, utilization and direct patient care measures that...
Sidney Health Center held a ribbon cutting and open house event to celebrate the completion of the Emergency Department remodel. Joining the ribbon cutting were Sidney Health Center leaders, board members, emergency department staff, EMS team members, contractors, and Sidney Chamber members....
The Foundation for Community Care will be holding their 30th Annual Wine & Food Festival, Saturday. Nov. 4 at 6 p.m. in the Richland County Fair Event Center. This year's theme will be "Back to the Future of Healthcare". The first Wine & Food Festival was held at the MonDak Heritage Center back in 1994. Now, the event has consistently had 250-500 attendees. This year, the Foundation and its planning team has decided to make some changes to the evening. From 6-8 p.m. there will be wine sampling...
On Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. the MonDak Heritage Center will be hosting a multimedia class by award winning national touring artist, published poet, and master singer-songwriter Rebecca Folsom! In this experiential and particularly delightful workshop, participants merge fine art (drawing or painting), singing, and writing. Folsom explains, "We work/play with all three media at the same time. This workshop has a cascade effect; it silences the inner critic and heightens the creative process....
Following the resignation of Austin Knudsen, who was elected Montana’s new attorney general in November 2021, Roosevelt County Commissioners appointed then deputy county attorney Frank A. Piocos as the new county attorney on Monday, Feb. 1, 2022, to finish out the term. Darla Downs, owner and publisher of the Northern Plains Independent, a community newspaper located in Wolf Point, was ready to turn her attention to other news, but a few of the other county residents had other ideas. Not long after Piocos began his new office, numerous c...
(Updated 10-13-23): Tim Tharp was incorrectly labeled as the Sidney School Superintendent. He is actually the Richland County Superintendent. The original story has been edited to reflect this change. (Original Story): Tuesday, Oct 3, the three Richland County Commissioners made a risky vote that while being beneficial to landowners across the county, could get the county sued by the state. They voted to levy the 77.89 mills that the state told them was needed to run the state instead of the 95...
The Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce the Sidney Fall Festival scheduled for Oct. 14. This event is a big community shindig with multiple community organizations hosting the fun. The festivities include: The Main Street Car and Bike Show presented by the Richland County Sportsmen’s Club features Judged categories and Non-Judged Showing Only categories. Your first judged entry is at a cost of $35 and all following judged entries get in for $15. Non-judged entries are displayed at a cost of $10/vehicle. Local businesses will...
The Theodore Roosevelt Expressway Association will host a meeting on Thursday, Oct. 27, in Dickinson. District 1 Senator Brad Bekkedahl, ND Senate Appropriations Chair, will be present at the meeting. TREA is dedicated to four-laning US Highway 85 across North Dakota. Currently, construction is underway on the divided four-lane on Highway 85 between Watford City and the Long X Bridge. The $77.2 million project is expected to be completed by the end of 2024. To register for this meeting visit https://www.trexpressway.com/Regi...
The Sidney High School Drama Club is pleased to present, Dracula, a production based on Bram Stoker's Dracula Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Oct. 13-15. The three-day production will be held in the Sidney Middle School auditorium. The high schoolers, as always, are happy to perform it, but Christy Pierce, SHS drama coach, is the one who chooses the productions. She chose this one for this year for many reasons. "I've always wanted to do Dracula," she said. "The production is funny, for all ages,...
Do you love Halloween? I'm not sure anyone in Sidney loves it more than Jan Getchell and her daughter Alysia Roland. Drive by 507 7th Ave. Southwest and see how their Halloween decorations beat the Griswolds at Christmas. Alysia says she's been decorating her mom's yard for nine or ten years. The first few years the theme was the traditional witches, ghosts, and spiders. She has always done most of the decorating by herself, however, last year; she recruited help from her husband because of so...
As Montana gears up to enter another respiratory illness season, the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) encourages Montanans to take precautions to help protect against severe symptoms from COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections. The number of people ill due to respiratory viruses, including COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia, and RSV, is currently low across most of the United States, but has increased in recent weeks. Montana has already begun seeing...
Join us at the MonDak Heritage Center on Friday, October 13th from 4 pm – 6 pm for a reception for Montana artist Sean Chandler. Chandler's amazing art exhibition "The One Defined To Be No One" will be on display at the MDHC until December 9th . Sean Chandler (Aaniiih) grew up in Glendive, Montana, and his family was among the only Native family in the community. He received his BA in Art and MA in Native Studies at Montana State University in Bozeman. He later earned an Ed.D. in Educational L...
On Friday, Sept. 29, a group of Richland County leaders met with Rich Garman, North Dakota Department of Commerce Economic Development and Finance director. He had good news for the MonDak region. Five different industrial companies are looking into building a facility in northwestern North Dakota. Cerilon, a company based out of Alberta, Canada, whose facilities generate premium-quality, cleaner-burning transportation fuels, synthetic base oils, and specialized products, according to their website, www.cerilon.com. The company wants to put a...
The Fairview Chamber of Commerce presented its latest "Above and Beyond" Award to Rick and LuAnn Sharbono for their decades of service to the Fairview Food Bank. Rick has retired from Tri County Implement, and LuAnn from Merchants Bank, but whether it is in the middle of the day, or the middle of the night, they make sure that hungry people are fed. Rick started volunteering for the food bank when he was on the Zion Lutheran Church Council in 1989. At that time, each church had a volunteer who...
The Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce the Sidney Fall Festival scheduled for Oct. 14. This event is a big community shindig with multiple community organizations hosting the fun. The festivities include: The Main Street Car and Bike Show presented by the Richland County Sportsmen’s Club features Judged categories and Non-Judged Showing Only categories. Your first judged entry is at a cost of $35 and all following judged entries get in for $15. Non-judged entries are displayed at a cost of $10/vehicle. Local businesses will...
Sept. 22, 2023 – A Good Shepherd Home groundbreaking ceremony will be held in Watford City, Oct. 10, at 10 a.m. CT, to celebrate the site that will soon be transformed into expanded chapel space, a beautiful courtyard, and state-of-the art greenhouse for long-term care residents to enjoy. Icon Architects are working to create spaces that are modern, warm, inviting, and accessible. Construction engineers will begin work this fall and bring the project to completion in June 2024, wrapping up with greenhouse construction. Randy Quale, Benefit F...
Sidney, MT – Sidney Health Center is thrilled to announce a milestone occasion that symbolizes a leap forward in the delivery of emergency medical care in Richland County and the surrounding area. The eagerly awaited Emergency Department Ribbon Cutting and Open House is set to take place on Thursday, Oct. 12 from 4-6 p.m., marking the completion of a remarkable renovation and rebuild. To kick-off the celebration, the Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce will be onsite to perform the official r...
We all know childcare is a pressing issue in the “childcare desert” we live in here, in Northeastern Montana. Here are Great Northern Development Cooperation and the Small Business Development Center. We have heard the many sides of the story, from a workforce shortage, the lack of childcare businesses/staff to help, and a local economy trying to grow. So this is why we have partnered with Zero to Five and many other state resources to bring the table to our side of the state. We encourage you to join our in-depth discussion about the wide ran...
MonDak Boys & Girls Club after-school program is dedicated to introducing our members to new programs and activities. Tasty Tuesdays is a program that started last year with our youngest members and is quickly growing to be a favorite! It is a hands-on cooking program that inspires creativity, healthy habits, and an interest in what we eat and where it comes from. The recipes include ingredients and recipes that coordinate with the season. The members started the program with leaf-shaped...
The 2nd annual Battle of the Bands is set to hit Sidney Sept. 30, at the Richland County Event Center. Tickets can be purchased for $30 online or through the Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture. The Battle of the Bands is hosted by the Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce's event committee including: Abbe Baisch, Jamie Larson, Lindsey Lawrence and Lynn Cole. The committee selected five bands from Montana and North Dakota to compete at this year's event – all with a different genre specialty. The bands include: Reaction Jacket, Pan B...
According to Badlands Search and Rescue Service, in a Facebook post Sept. 17, on Sept. 16, Badlands Search and Rescue along with the Dawson County Sheriff department performed ground searches in an attempt to locate Renee Arcand. To date, there is still no sign or clues that have been found that definitively point to Arcand's disappearance. On Sept. 16, Badlands Search and Rescue members searched a total of 19.25 miles of roadway on Dawson County Rd 551 and Montana State Highway 16 from the...
Members of the Watford City Area Concert Association can look forward to the season opener of the 2023-2024 concert series Sept. 28, with a high energy concert for all ages. “Phat Cat Swinger” is a west coast 11-piece “little big band,” that specializes in toe-tapping music with that classic Hollywood touch. They have been featured on the stages of The Disneyland Resort presenting re-imagined Disney songs and originals in their iconic sound. This will be a fun group for the whole family and will launch the new season with a special 5 p.m. fa...
Stockman Bank is celebrating 70 years of serving the people, businesses, and communities of Montana! To celebrate with its neighbors, Stockman is holding a 70th Anniversary Open House at all bank locations on National Good Neighbor Day. Everyone is invited to stop by Stockman Bank, in Sidney, on Thursday, Sept. 28, during normal business hours for treats, refreshments, giveaways, and fun. The day will be kicked off with morning coffee at 9 a.m. with Bill Coffee. In 1953, Miles City rancher, Bill Nefsy, founded Stockman Bank, with the vision to...
