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The Broadus School Board trustees met for their April monthly meeting on Monday evening. In attendance were Dawn Aye, Kristy Elgin, Waylon Billing, Amanda Zimmer, and Jay Schroeder, attending via phone call. On the agenda were the attendance contracts were approved for 12 out of district students. In the past these contracts were approved once and then were good in perpetuity, but new rules from the state require the board to approve of out of district contracts each year. Hirings for a large number of staff and coaches for the 2024-25 school...
Broadus HS golfers competed at the Absarokee/Park City Invite on Tuesday, April 2nd, in Columbus. The course is near the Yellowstone River and features a tight setup with a number of trees, according to Coach Chad Gatlin. Golfers for Broadus included Emma Isaacs, who won 1st place overall at the meet among the girls with an 86, and Cooper Zimmer, who tied for 5th in the boys with an 82. Other Braodus golfers included Jeff Cahoon, placing 14th with a 93, Grayson Arithson tying for 15th with a 95, and Jayce Schroeder placing 17th with a 97. T...
By Dori Phillips Please join us for our second annual Career Fair on May 8th at the High School Auditorium from 1:30-3:00 pm. Employers can sign up for a table space in our auditorium and have one or more representatives answering questions and handing out job applications. Interviews can take place on site or at an alternate date and time. Our students are encouraged to attend and community members who are looking for additional work are also invited to join us this year! Open positions can range from volunteer work to full-time, some will...
The viewing for the partial eclipse in Powder River County was not optimal on Monday due to cloud cover and rainy weather obscuring the sun. The sun partially peeked through the clouds very early in the eclipse, but alas we were not able to capture anything worthy for printing on digital stills. The path of totality, where the total solar eclipse occurred, cast its shadow from Mexico through portions of the Central US and Northeast on Monday. The next full eclipse in our part of the world will...
While some members of the Broadus Track Team were away at FFA in Billings, the remaining members of the team competed in a meet in Laurel, last week. Broadus competed against a number of Class B schools at the meet, as well as Class C schools such as Manhattan Christian – a perennial powerhouse that Broadus isn't likely to see in the majority of the Southeast Montana meets, but will see down the road at State. With Broadus Head Coach Faith Dyrud in charge of FFA students in her capacity as F...
April 11, 1924 Powder River Raises Hell In General Powder River again became the subject of conversation in general the past week for the depredations it was committing along almost its entire course. The high water found it changing its channel in places and destroying property. Friday night it took out the west approach to the steel bridge at Broadus. On Monday Oscar Pemberton and others tried to get a line across the river by shooting a broomstick handle from a shotgun. The string persisted in tangling and made the stick fall short each...
With two positions on the school board in District 79J expiring in May, three people have filed for the positions. Those individuals include: Waylon Billing, Bobbi Myers, and Kathryn R. Myers. Billing currently serves on the board and is running as an incumbent. Those 79J positions are 3 year terms. In the South Stacey district, the 2 year position is currently open and no one has filed. That position may be appointed. Mail ballots will be sent, with a deadline of May 7th....
Sheriff’s Dept. Jessica Ernst, Cincinnati, OH., speeding in a restricted zone, (75/65), $55. Amber Baron, West Monroe, LA., speeding in a restricted zone, (80/65), $65. Mathew Badheart Bull, Lakefield, MN., speeding in a restricted zone, (80/65), $65. Brendon Horst, Mt. Vernon, IL., speeding in a restricted zone, (75/65), $55. Andrew Schultz, Bozeman, MT., speeding in a restricted zone, (75/65), $55. Jose Santos Calero, Michigan City, IN., speeding in a restricted zone, (78/65), $65. Juan Aburto Martinez, Atlanta, GA., speeding in a r...
By Jim Kolka The AAU wrestling awards banquet will be April 20th @ 6 pm at the VFW. Supper will be provided, followed by awards and a dessert auction. Buy a dessert for a chance to win a Kimber Micro9 pistol, Heritage .22 revolver, Ruger youth .243, over/under 12 gauge, or over/under 20 gauge. Also up for auction will be breeding to Taylor and Joey Williams horse stud “Smoke N Sunrise”....
Regular Council Meeting April 2, 2024 @ 6:00 pm In Attendance: Councilperson Raevyn Slovek; Councilperson Wanda Smith; Councilperson Lori Turnbough; Councilperson Cody Morris; Clerk/Treasurer Josie Morris; Public Works Cass Zimmer and Raymond Ragsdale; Guest: Sheriff Devin Boman. Mayor Gatlin was absent from the meeting and elected Councilperson Morris ran the meeting in his absence. Councilperson Morris called the meeting to order at 6:05 pm. Following the pledge of allegiance, the Council reviewed the previous meeting minutes. Councilperson...
Timothy Dale Blaede, 56, of Ashland Montana passed away on April 8, 2024, after losing a courageous battle with brain cancer. Tim was born June 29, 1967, in Rapid City, South Dakota to parents David James & Carole Lavonne Blaede of Custer, South Dakota. It was in Custer where he spent his entire childhood falling in love with lifelong passions that would define him. Tim loved anything that had a motor and tires. He enjoyed dirt track racing, trucking, wrenching and operating equipment. He also...
Buddy Poppies will be available from Pat Hanlan several times in April, including both days at the Health Fair in Broadus on April 17th and 18th, at the VFW meeting on April 21st, and at the Community Auction at the Fairgrounds on April 27th. Pat tells us that the majority of Buddy Poppy donations stay local, but a portion goes to the VFW National Home. The VFW National Home was founded in 1925 as a place where the families left behind by war could remain together, keeping the family circle intact even when their servicemember didn’t come h...
Sandra Lois "Sandy" Wood passed away in the afternoon of April 1, 2024 with family by her side. She died at Villa River Ridge Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Billings, Montana from Cardio Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. She was 83 years old. Sandra was the first born of a set of twins in Miles City, Montana to Eugene and Agnes Mae Gold Wood on March 28, 1941. She grew up on ranches in Powder River County, one of four siblings. From a young age Sandra was athletic. She won many county track...
