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HELP! Due to an ongoing scarcity of volunteers, St Vincent de Paul is announcing a change in operations. With all of your friendly cooperation, we ask that you DO NOT drop off any donations during the first week of every month. That week’s respite will allow us to catch up a bit in the back room. We appreciate our donors, but the incoming flood of stuff – great, not-so-great, and other -- is overwhelming. During the No-donations Week, we will sort, we will clean, we will reorganize our display racks and shelves, we will organize silent auc...
Summertime at the Powder River Historical Museum has flown by quickly! July came and went before we had a chance to catch our breath from the productivity of the previous month! Thankfully our volunteers have continued to provide their time and effort to the museum so that we can continue to keep the place running. We even gained another volunteer this month! For the month of July, Shane Dunning finished installing all the LED lights we ordered for the front room, library, and dining room of the museum. We can see better now! Sometimes when we...
Courtesy Powder River Community Endowment Fund The Powder River Community Endowment Fund would like to thank the LeVeque family for entrusting us with their wishes of their families' trust. They have chosen to invest their money in the Montana Community Foundation and give out scholarships to those who choose to study the health care field. The scholarships will be available for students residing in Powder River, Custer, and Carter counties. Details will be available closer to graduation dates....
By Tom Herzog We will be treated to some wonderful Southern Gospel music this Sunday, August 18th @ 10:45 a.m. at Faith Bible Church of Broadus. The church is located at 102 East Morris, just a block west of the high school. Recording artist Mark Umfleet from Forsyth, MT will bring his musical talent and the message during the regular worship service. The message titled “The Door” will tell of the incredible gift of salvation through Christ. Mark’s recent single, “The Sinner and the Saint” peaked at #14 on the Cashbox Magazine Southern...
Broadus Elementary will be hosting an open house on THURSDAY, AUGUST 15 from 5 to 7 PM. Parents are invited to bring their student’s school supplies, as well as to finish any paperwork. Students are also encouraged to attend the open house, in order to meet the teacher, see where their desk will be and reconnect with friends. We hope to see all parents and students Thursday evening! The first day of practice for fall sports (High School Football, Volleyball, and Cross Country) is Friday, August 16th. The first day of school is Tuesday, A...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Small nonfarm businesses in four Montana counties and neighboring counties in South Dakota and Wyoming are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sánchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by excessive rain, flash flooding, hail, high winds and lightning in the following primary co...
On the morning of Wednesday, August 7th, Broadus Town employee Cass Zimmer was involved in an altercation at Cottonwood Park in Broadus, leaving Zimmer bloodied and sending him to the hospital, causing speculation to swirl around the community in the days following the incident. In speaking with the Sheriff’s Department, their investigation uncovered further details of the altercation. Zimmer, riding his motorcycle, came upon a group camped at the park, with tents reportedly located near the veranda, as well as two motorcycles parked under t...
By Jackie Beardsley The results for the 4-H Carcass contest were announced last week, according to Powder River County Extension Agent Jackie Beardsley. An excited group of 4-H participants, parents and supporters gathered at Broadus Meats Tuesday afternoon to hear the results. Terry, Sherry, Jeff and the Broadus Meats crew were thanked for their support of our Powder River County Fair and for hosting our carcass contest at the meat shop. Additional thanks goes to Jimmy Collins for taking...
Great Falls, MT – Montana grain harvest has been fast and furious for 2024, with hot temperatures pushing wheat, peas and other crops to rapidly ripen. Montana Wheat & Barley Committee staff have been out with producers and are anxious to share numbers as winter wheat pours into the bin at an accelerated pace. “We are hearing from the Billings region to north of Great Falls that yields are anywhere from 40 to 85 bushels per acre, with some anomalies like 120,” said Lori Wickett, research and communications director. “There are some erratic...
August 15, 1924 Attempt to Kidnap Sheriff’s Wife at Ashland Roundup It was just before daybreak at Ashland Saturday morning of the Roundup there that Sheriff Warren thwarted a bold attempt of two men to kidnap his wife and this is how it happened. Mr. and Mrs. Warren and their young son had retired in their car, parked about a block from the dance pavilion. They had drawn the curtains and were sleeping peacefully in a bed arranged over the seats. Mrs. Warren awoke with a start when she felt a hand groping its way over the covers. The scream t...
This is a revised version of an earlier release, corrected to reflect that the original fossil, and not a cast, will be returned to Makoshika State Park MILES CITY – The good news is that a very popular dinosaur fossil that was a fixture alongside one of Makoshika State Park's hiking trails has not been stolen, vandalized or damaged; rather, it has been excavated by Museum of the Rockies. It's a bit of a shock to visitors who have become accustomed to seeing the hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosau...
Monday, July 15, 2024 Commissioner Chair Lee Randall called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. in the Commissioner’s office, Powder River County Courthouse. Commissioners Lori Fortner and John Olson were present. Commissioners reviewed and approved the consent agenda. The scheduled EDA Bridge Project meeting was cancelled and moved to July 22, 2024, at 8:30 a.m. The scheduled John Trusler meeting for renewal of his road maintenance contract was cancelled and will be rescheduled later. Teel Mullanix stopped in to update on the gravel project prog...
TOWN OF BROADUS Regular Council Meeting August 7, 2024 @ 6:00 pm In Attendance: Mayor Chad Gatlin; Councilperson Wanda Smith; Clerk/Treasurer Josie Morris; Councilperson Cody Morris via phone and Guest Sheriff Devin Boman and Deputy Cory Seamann. Mayor Gatlin called the meeting to order at 6:00 pm and lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Council began the meeting with the consent agenda items of reviewing the previous meeting minutes from 07-02-2024, claims forms from period 7/24 and 8/24. Councilperson Turnbough made a motion to approve all consent...
Walter Edward Boman was born 4:30 pm on July 26, 2024, at Spearfish Hospital in Spearfish, SD, to parents Rebecca and Devin Boman of Broadus. Weighing 7 lbs 12 oz and 18" in length at birth, Walter joins sibling Reagan, Thea, and Henry. His paternal grandparents are Jody and Dave Rose of Utah, and Randy Boman of Utah. Maternal grandparents are James and Kelly Molloy, currently residing in Kenya, Africa....
By Diana Setterberg, Montana State University News Service BOZEMAN – An instrument designed and built at Montana State University to capture the first high-resolution, far-ultraviolet spectrum of the entire sun will be launched into space aboard a NASA rocket on Sunday, Aug. 11. Kankelborg, a member of MSU’s internationally known Solar Physics Group, has built several scientific instruments to study the sun. He began developing FURST in 2018, after the idea was suggested to him by Phil Judge, a senior scientist at the High Altitude Obs...
The Broadus School Board Trustees met for their regular monthly meeting on Monday evening. Trustee Rob Jones was absent from the meeting, and Trustee Dawn Aye attended via phone call. Several hirings took place, including Raevyn Slovek as Family Consumer Science Teacher, and Chrystal Mitchell as Title 1 Teacher. Both of those hirings will use the Emergency Authorization status, which allows the hiring of non-certified teachers. Also hired were Abigail Martin and Jerry Coulter as substitute teachers. Martin will be teaching Rebecca Boman’s c...
By Julie Emmons Stoddard, Hwy 212 Safety Action Group In partnership with Southeastern Montana Economic Development and the Powder River County Sheriff’s Office, we are hosting an additional public meeting in Broadus on Thursday, August 22nd @ 5:30pm at the VFW (401 Park Avenue). We will be reviewing the draft US 212 Safety Action Plan and related recommendations and taking public comment/ feedback before finalizing the report in early September. If you would like to see a copy of that report in advance, or are unable to attend the meeting a...
