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The graduation ceremony for the PRCDHS Class of 2024 was held on Saturday, May 18th. Temperatures in the 60s meant guests in the gym were able to comfortably watch the graduation without profuse perspiration. The PRCDHS High School Band played the ceremonial processional as the 18 students of the Class of 2024 made their way down the aisle. Emma Isaacs, Class of 2024 Salutatorian, welcomed the gathered friends, family, and faculty to the ceremony, and spoke of the class's collective experiences...
By Libby Nisley The weather is starting to warm up, and with it the excitement is growing to open the pool. A tentative open date will be Tuesday, May 28th, weather permitting. Sessions are as follows: Morning Laps: 7:00-9:00 (M-F Only) Aerobics: 9:00-10:00 (M-F Only) 1st Session 11:00-2:00 (will begin later on lessons days) 2nd Session: 2:30-5:30 Night Session: 6:00-8:00 One major difference is that swimming lessons will be offered by the week, and not during the evenings. Here is the tentative schedule of levels offered and dates. June 24-28...
By Broadus BPA Advisor Libby Nisley Four Broadus BPA (Business Professionals of America) students attended the National Leadership Conference in Chicago, IL in Mid-May. There were 800 school chapters in attendance, with 60 Montana High School Chapters there. Around 6,500 attendees made this a huge event for our small-town students! Kassie Hagedorn, a freshman, participated in both Fundamental Word and Fundamental Spreadsheet. She placed 11th in Fundamental Word, narrowly missing a "Top 10" walk...
By MSU Extension Agent Mary Rumph Long serving Powder River Extension Agents Julie Riley and Mary Rumph have announced their retirement for the end of June. A party to celebrate their retirement is planned for Thursday, May 30th in the Courthouse Lobby from 2-4:00 pm. “We are so appreciative of the support and kindness of the community and the incredible opportunity to work with generations of Powder River County people and neighboring counties through the 4-H program, working with volunteer boards providing educational events,” explained Ril...
Submitted by Deanna Twedt The 2024 museum season is almost here and the Powder River Historical Museum is looking for volunteers to help out this summer. Duties that may be held as a volunteer include greeting guests, giving tours (training will be provided if interested in this portion), cleaning, aiding in the rearranging of displays, and possible conducting research. Volunteers are also allowed to contribute a passion of their own. For instance, if there is a skill you would like to give a lesson on, or if there is something historical about...
Voters who recently received absentee primary elections ballots in the mail may have been surprised to see ballot measures listed for local government studies. Those voters within the town of Broadus have two options, one for a review of county government and another for town government, while voters from outside the city limits saw only the county option, per PR County Election Administrator Cynde Jo Gatlin. The local government review is a process laid out in the Montana Constitution in which every ten years all counties and municipalities...
For the first time in school history, a sports team has brought home to Broadus a state title. The accomplishment, which for many years seemed impossible. The Broadus girls golf team accomplished that feat no more than a week ago, at the state tournament in Hamilton. Not to be outshadowed by the girls, the Broadus boys made history of their own, accomplishing a third place team trophy. Boys golf began as a sport in Broadus in 2018, and the sixth year of competition marks the first state trophy...
Conditions in Laurel were sunny and breezy with temps in the 60s last Thursday for the Southern C Divisional Track Meet – conditions just perfect for a meet, according to Head Track Coach Faith Dyrud. The competition at Divisional level becomes truly challenging for many of the athletes, as the field is narrowed and only the top competition finds their way to the meet. Despite the challenge, Broadus tracksters rose to the level of competition, making the podium in a number of events. Of p...
By PR Extension Office Reading books, fishing, checking cows, riding horses, golfing, jumping on the trampoline, helping mom and dad, drawing, painting, riding a bike, racing wheel-barrows, baking cookies, mowing grandma and grandpa’s lawn, making a puppet dragon, working with pigs, branding calves and lots of playing…playing on the hoverboard, playing with toys, playing ping pong, playing board games, playing with dogs, playing with a sister are some of the many wonderful, active and exciting things the twenty-four youth did rather than watch...
By Jerry Coulter The first practice for T-Ball - Minors will be held Wednesday, May 29th at 5:30 pm, at Tastee Freeze Field in Broadus. Majors baseball players, aged 11-12 and some 10 year olds who want more instruction on playing baseball, meet at 4:00 PM at the same field. 10 year olds may play both leagues. We have about 40 players signed up for T-Ball Minors this year. Following the first practice (weather permitting) on Wednesday, May 29th at 5:30, the first games are set for Monday, June 3rd at 5:30 PM....
Kaaren Leanne (Olsen) Rizor was born in Glendale, California in 1943 to Thorvald (Tom) and Elizabeth (Kirkbride) Olsen. The oldest of three children, Kaaren grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles among a large and close-knit extended family. She was raised Methodist. A born caregiver, she followed in her maternal grandmother's footsteps, attending community college to become a Registered Nurse. By her mid-twenties, Kaaren was Head Nurse on her floor at Holy Cross Hospital in Mission...
Forest Edward Chapman was born in White Sulphur Springs on the 23rd of March, 1986. Despite an early move to eastern Montana, he remained tightly bound to this area through the people he came to know, both here and in Wilsall. Because of his continuing friendship with the boys over the hill, he lived a childhood, that as James Dunkel puts it, like nothing in this generation nor in generations to come. Forest always maintained he was born one hundred years too late. He loved to be read. He may...
Jo Ann Buck Kemmis, born to Gene and Dorthy Buck on September 14, 1954 in Miles City, recently passed away on April 4, 2024 while living in Portland, Oregon. Jo Ann and family moved from Miles City in 1965 to Broadus where she graduated from High School in 1972. She went to college at U of M, during that time her family moved to Sidney. In Sidney she met her husband Greg Kemmis and they married in 1975. From Williston to Sidney then to Bozeman then and Billings where Jo Ann finished with her...
May 23rd, 1924 Frank Smith starts Sheep Shearing Season Today Frank started the season today at the place of H.A. Tarbox on Wolf Creek, where the Tarbox and Orville Weathers sheep are to be rid of their fleeces. When finished, Smith will load his machine plant onto two trucks and leave via Miles City, Terry, Baker, and Ekalaka for the Maples place on Willow Creek, ten miles east of Piniele where he will start work on the 27th. The detour is necessary because all bridges on the Powder River are out of commission. Link Wilson sells 300 Heifers...
By Margaret Scoles On May 10, Arbor Day was celebrated in Broadus after weather delays. Arbor Day is the last Friday in April, but there was no school that day. Diana Swenson's first grade class (18 students) was the cosponsor of the event. The class walked to the Manor, planted a cottonwood tree in the fenced outdoor garden area with Broadus Tree Board members Don Birkholz, Kelda Page, Anne Amsden, and Margaret Scoles and several Manor residents. Scoles read the Arbor Day proclamation as a...
