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Powder River County's very own champion, Jess Lockwood, secured his spot in history with a dominant win last weekend at the PBR World Finals in Las Vegas. The former Broadus high school State Champion wrestler is now a two-time PBR World Champion, winning his first championship in 2017. Lockwood, at 22 years old, is the youngest bull rider to win two world championships. Lockwood entered the finals in second place behind Jose Vitor Leme of Brazil, back 749 points. Jess had led the points totals...
By Tom Herzog The Powder River Farm in the Dell will be hosting our annual Harvest Fest on Saturday, November 23rd . This is our largest fund-raising event of the year to support this rural home for developmentally disabled men. The event will include a dinner with beef stew and pumpkin cake, live auction and bucket drawing for all kinds of special items. There will also be free child care. Each year we bring in a special speaker or performer to give folks some entertainment to go along with the dinner and fund-raising. This year, Bob...
Broadus hosted a pair of Veterans Day Services on Monday, November 11. The youth of Broadus Schools performed a Veterans Day program, with several local vets in attendance to witness the event. The First Grade class recited a poem, and Senior Luke Herzog then read aloud his Voice of Democracy submission. Lisa Lynch's band and choir performed for those in attendance, leading the school in a patriotic program which reportedly was enjoyed by the vets in attendance, including Matt Zellers, Boo...
By Caroline Johnson The Broadus Speech and Drama students traveled to Poplar this past Saturday to the Wolf Point - Poplar Invitational. This was a smaller meet than the week before in Billings. Our students performed extremely well. Luke McAlpine took 2nd in Pantomime, Samatha Perry took 4th place in Humorous Solo, and Erick McConnon and Deanna Twedt took 3rd place with their Humorous Duo. With their great successes in their individual events they brought home the 1st place trophy for Class C...
The Broadus School Board met Monday night for their monthly meeting. On the agenda was the consideration of hiring a substitute teacher, the closing or combining of several activity fund accounts, the consideration of allowing 8th grade participation in high school boys and girls basketball, and considering recommendations of the buildings and grounds committee in regards to the high school roof. The board began by approving two out of district transportation contracts, one for a 9th grader, the other for a 2nd grader who will be attending at...
The Broadus junior high basketball teams continued their seasons over the last few weeks, with games against Wibaux, Terry, Sacred Heart, Melstone, Jordan, and Plevna. The Boys A team, under Coach Mike Richards, is currently undefeated. Here are the point totals for the games: Boys A 55, Wibaux 15; Girls A 13, Wibaux 21; Boys B 36, Wibaux 14; Girls B 18, Wibaux 20; Boys A 64, Terry 14; Girls A 39, Terry 22; Boys B 19, Terry 27; Girls B 7, Terry 11; Boys A 52, Sacred Heart 25; Girls A 22, Sacred Heart 38; Boys B 28, Sacred Heart 14; Girls B 10,...
Kenneth James Johnstone, 71, passed away Monday, November 11, 2019 at his home in Broadus, MT. Born and raised as a brave cowboy in Ekalaka, MT, the son of Johnny and Dorothy Johnstone, he graduated from Carter County High School in 1966. He was granted the nickname "Stan the Man" in his days in Ekalaka. One of his favorite places to be was on the ranch on Spring Creek where he would go branding, have cook-outs, and go camping. He met his wife, Nellie Tabolt, in Broadus and they were married in...
By PR Extension Service What began as a program to meet the needs of youth in our community more than twenty years ago as part of the Governor's Summit on Youth has continued to positively affect the lives of youth in Powder River County. After attending the statewide Summit on Youth in 1998, an organization, Youth in Action (YIA) was established under the umbrella of MSU Powder River Extension's youth development program. The initial Youth in Action team consisted of four teens including M...
Biddle Busy Beavers 4-H News By Danica Schroeder The first 4-H meeting of the year for the Biddle Busy Beavers 4-H club was held on October 27, 2019. The meeting was hosted by the Bilbrey family, at their home. Members attending the meeting included Jaxon and Shaylee Bilbrey, Rheanna, Jayce, Jordyn, and Danica Schroeder, Grayson Arithson, Kaleigh Opstedahl, Addison Randall, Kendal Stanley, and new member Michael Stephens. We elected our new officers for the year. Shaylee Bilbrey was elected as our President. Other officers elected include Vice...
By PR Extension Service 4-Hers marked the end of the 4-H year with fun, food and recognition. Callie Williams, Teen 4-H President, welcomed 4-H members, leaders and family to the evening's festivities. Fellow Teen 4-Hers Kyle Minow, Kori Kolka, Garrett Cunningham, Kaydin Trent, Beau and Paysen Kuhbacher, Tawna Quiroz and Oliveah Schaffer emceed the event and organized icebreaker activities for their younger peers. The 4-H Council officers were recognized including Missy Billing, President, w...
When we consider the plethora of candidates running for president next year and their openly socialist stand, shouldn't we be asking ourselves and them common sense questions about why socialism doesn't work, and never has. Except of course, for those in the oligarchy that are pulling the strings. When you give government enough power to do good, you also give it enough power to be abusive and do bad. Why would anyone think that once government functionaries attained such power, they would act more nobly than would individuals in the private...
By Tom Herzog A year ago last Christmas, my mother-in-law was attentively listening to the Christmas message, when she suddenly slumped over and became non-responsive. It sounds like a set-up for a good pastor joke, but it was actually occurring right here in Faith Bible Church. We were blessed to have numerous individuals on-hand that were able to give her care and to facilitate the ambulance transport for her to end up having a quadruple by-pass. But what if a person went into full cardiac arr...
October 28, 2019 Commissioners met for their weekly meeting with Donna Giacometto, Lee Randall, and Rod Schaffer present. The meeting was called to order. Commissioners discussed the scheduling conflicts for the Thursday meeting date of October 31, 2019. Chairman of the Board, Lee Randall proposed moving the meeting date from Thursday, October 31 to Friday, November 1, 2019. The board then unanimously voted to move meeting dates. No public comment was received at this time. Consent agenda – Rod moved, Donna seconded this motion, all in f...
Kingpin 10-30-19 High team games: Big Sky Bar, 741, Big Sky Bar, 738, Askin Construction, 688; high series: Big Sky Bar, 2091, Sagebrush Inn, 1973, Askin Construction, 1964. Individual games: Bill Alderman, 244, Frank Danielson, 243, Dave Barbero, 233; high series: Frank Danielson, 643, Dave Barbero, 606, Bill Alderman, 605. Wicked Wednesday Entertainment 11-6-19 High team games: Two Earleys, 270, Bonnie & Kelly, 250, BSO Cooks, 249; high series: Two Earleys, 757, Bonnie & Kelly, 740, Shopper Girls, 654. Individual games: Dawn Mraz, 182,...
Thursday, November 16, 1989 Quaring voted in as Mayor in well-publicized election Roger Quaring was voted in as the new Mayor of Broadus as a write-in during Tuesday’s election…an election that for reasons still unexplained caught the eye of most of the nation. Results of the election and an interview with Quaring appeared the following morning on the front page of the daily edition of the Billings Gazette. The election also made the Seattle, Washington newspaper that day. Later in the week, Quaring was interviewed by the New York Times, alo...
