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Mail will once again be available at the Broadus Post Office this week, going back to their normal hours. The move comes following a month of limited mail due to a car wreck which punched a hole in the side of the post office building on October 9th, forcing the building’s closure and temporarily moving mail service to the community center and for a few days, Volborg. With mail now available at the Post Office, services are supposed to be back up and running as normal in the near future, according to Ernie Swanson, USPS Communications R...
The Broadus Lady Hawk Volleyball team competed at the Eastern C Divisional Tournament last week in Sidney. Broadus first faced off against North Country, which is a co-op athletic program between Saco, Whitewater, and Hinsdale on the Hi-Line. On paper North Country looked tall in comparison to Broadus, but in viewing past game film Broadus Coach Gordon Archer thought North Country was beatable. "There's nothing they did that made us think we wouldn't be able to beat them, but some parts of our...
Veterans Day Salute With today, November 11, being Veterans Day, I feel it is fitting to salute and be proud of each and every veteran who has served in the Armed Forces of our country in wartime and in more peaceful times. Wartime veterans make our country safe, and serving in peacetime keep it strong by being ready to serve wherever and whenever they are asked to go. I am especially proud of the veterans in my family who said ‘Yes, Sir’ when asked or volunteered before being asked. My maternal grandfather, John William Eaton, served dur...
Courtesy UC Santa Barbara Nearly 240 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the United States since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Administration (EUA) in December 2020 to help curtail the pandemic. The vaccine, now called Comirnaty, became the first FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine for patients 16 years and older on August 23 of this year. The recommendation came after a months-long, multinational, placebo-controlled trial...
On Monday of this week, the Powder River County Commissioners opened bids from five companies for the Moorhead Bridge replacement. The bids ranged from just under 1.9 million to 2.3 million. All five bids will now go to the county’s engineering firm, which will go over the bids, and submit them to the Feds for a review, after which the winning bid will be awarded and construction will be able to commence. In speaking with the commissioners, demo on the old bridge which was closed by the state in 2019 may commence this winter, with c...
October temperatures trended on the warm side in the local area during the month of October, while a mid-month storm dropped a sizable amount of snow on the area, sending precipitation levels above monthly averages. On October 7th and 8th, Broadus hit new record highs of 86 degrees for those days, while the high for the month of 89 on the 5th fell short of the record temp for that date, which was 90 degrees on October 5th of 1920. A snowstorm on the 12th and 13th of October dropped over two feet of snow in higher elevations around the county,...
Broadus High School Senior Dakota Holbrook on Monday was named to the Bob Cleverley 8-Man All-Star Football Team for his work this season playing for the Hawk Football Team. Holbrook was also named Second Team All Conference on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball as a lineman. The All-Star game is expected to take place in early June of 2022....
Clifford "Cliff" Rosencranz, age 66, passed away November 3, 2021 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Clifford "Cliff" Otto Rosencranz was born February 18, 1955 in Miles City, Montana to Morris and Vera (Smith) Rosencranz. He grew up and attended school in the small town of Broadus, Montana. He moved to Forsyth, Montana, where he worked and became manager of a lumber company. In 1982, he married Mary and became a dad to stepson, Jesse. In 1983, they moved to St. Cloud, MN where he worked at Mills...
Marriage license issued: Jacqueline Marie Macias and Sean Michael Delatorre, Broadus...
May 30, 1960 – September 29, 2021 Memorial services for Jeff Holbrook, 61, of Recluse, WY are scheduled for 3 pm Saturday, November 13th, at the Biddle Community Center with Pastor Tom Herzog officiating. A pitch-in meal will follow. Jeff passed away September 29, 2021 leaving his wife of 30 years, Tammy Holbrook, sons: Dakota Holbrook, Jurell Holbrook and Dustin Byrd , daughters: Menissa Worley, Aimee Byrd and Jennifer Holbrook Pooser, sisters: Lisa Oliver and Karen Web, as well as numerous g...
The following is a list of expenses from the county departments, as submitted by the Clerk & Recorder’s office and approved to be paid by the PR County Commissioners for the month of October, 2021. Carquest Auto Parts 2414.79 Clerk & Recorder Petty Cash 722.38 Incontact Inc. 351.55 Powder River Examiner 950.00 Range Telephone Cooperative 3004.98 Town of Broadus 2440.74 Wilhelm Land Surveying 600.00 Abbey Barnhart 85.00 Alderman Oil Co. 12592.02 Allbridge 621.58 Amazon Capital Services 317.88 Amazon.Com Credit 27.43 Amsden, LLC 550.00 Aramark U...
Wicked Wednesday Entertainment finished their first ½ of the season on November 3, 2021. Results: 1. Dawn Mraz & Ricarda Hanson, 22 wins; 2. Tracie Earley & Sarah Fortner, 20.5 wins; Hannelore Olson & Sarah Taubner, 18.5 wins. Year to date game and series averages were as follows: Sarah Fortner, 156, 417; Tracie Earley, 187, 473; Koreena Greslin (sub), 117, 311; Ricarda Hanson, 218, 557; Taylor Hanson (sub), 135, 296; Jessica Malone (sub), 139, 347; Dawn Mraz, 213, 525; Hannelore Olson, 142, 357; Sarah Taubner, 128, 355. The second ½ takes p...
November 11, 1921 Making Old Trails as County Roads Jesse Spielman, County Surveyor, has completed a survey of some of the old primitive trails in the northern part of the county which have been designated as county roads by our commissioners. Last week he completed the marking and surveying of the stage route from Recluse to Bay Horse, MT. At the present time 32 gates block this road. Some of the adjoining land holders expect to begin fencing their land away from the road in the near future. Another road that he marked and surveyed is the old...
