Week of August 28, 2024
Week of August 28, 2024
At the Malta City Council meeting on Tuesday, August 13, a good-sized crowd was in attendance, with various issues and concerns to be addressed. Present at the meeting were Mayor John Demarais, Council members Bonnie Wiederrick, David Rummel, Laura Pankratz, and Bill Hicks, City Clerk Lorie Bond, PWD Jim Truelove, Compliance Officer John Wright, Marilyn Taylor, Dennis Simpson, Eric Maxie, Tony Simonsen, Christian Simpson, and Jonathan Simpson. The pledge to the flag was recited and business got underway. Mayor Demarais opened the meeting for...
The usually quiet little mini-metropolis of Saco, Montana, is banding together to prepare for the one big hurrah the community has been known for for years. Labor Day weekend the town brings out the young and the old, and friends and neighbors from other communities to put on a gala affair that is now the 61st Annual Saco Fun Days in the Hi-Line community. The events will be held at various locations across town, all of which probably anyone in town can point you in the direction of. Keeping...
A grazing permit operator and BLM employees from the North Central Montana District earned special recognition Aug. 16 for their actions to prevent a BLM dam near Harlem, Montana, from potentially failing during the unusually high-flow spring runoff season in 2023. Sonya Germann, BLM-Montana/Dakotas state director, presented the State Director's Award for Safety to Frank Baldik, BLM grazing permit operator; Abby Hall, rangeland management specialist; Ben Hileman, field manager; Ken Koncilya,...
Last week Phillips County Sheriff Jerry Lytle sent a letter to the Phillips County News and to social media that understandably caused some concern. The PCN caught up with Sheriff Lytle to talk more about the letter, urging locals to contact the Phillips County Commissioners in regards to higher pay for his deputies and dispatch; this has been ongoing since he took office in 2019. The situation has gotten more severe for PCSO because after the letter was released on Monday, August 19, Sheriff...
The Montana Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is investigating an officer-involved critical incident that occurred late Saturday night in Valley County. At approximately 9:19 p.m., deputies from Valley and McCone County Sheriff’s Offices were responding to a disturbance call occurring at Roundhouse Point Campground. While en route, a McCone County deputy, working under contract with Valley County, encountered an adult female and male (the involved parties) arguing outside their vehicle near mile marker 3 on Montana Highway 117. As...
10 yrs ago Aug. 20, 2014 The Mustang Foundation held its annual banquet and thanked those who have invested time, money and life with Malta’s finest… its students. The Malta Trails, Inc. will be hosting a Radio-a-thon to continue their two-phase plan for a trail walk that is safe and healthy. The Mustang Foundation started it out with a $5,000 donation. The Malta High School District voted to change the Top 10 to a Top Eight and weigh AP classes heavier. They also purchased a 58-passenger bus at a cost of $19,500. The Phillips County 4-H...
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the original Homestead Act into law. He reportedly said, “This will do something for the little fellow”. This Homestead Act allowed a person to claim up to 160 acres of public land to make a home for himself. He had to reside on the land for five years and make improvements. Before Montana could be homesteaded, the land had to be surveyed, which started in 1867. The first land settled in Montana and in Phillips County was along creeks and rivers, springs, and waterholes. In 1909, the Enlarged Homestead Act...
Many visited the Phillips County Community Foundation (PCCF) booth at the Phillips County Fair! Your interest and support mean so much to us as we work to make a lasting impact in our community. Did you know PCCF is building an endowment? An endowment is a permanent fund that helps support our local programs and initiatives for years to come. We’re partnering with the Montana Community Foundation (MCF) as part of their Incentive Challenge, and we need your help! Our goal is to raise $7,500 in 2024, and by reaching this goal, MCF will award...
The Malta Mustangs football team held their annual Blue and White Scrimmage at Mustang Field last Friday, August 23. The scrimmage featured a mixture of varsity and junior varsity Mustang football players going against each other to prepare the team for the regular season, slated to kick off Friday, August 30, against the Baker Spartans in Baker. Mustang senior Stockton Oxarart, the team's quarterback was asked how he felt the event went. "It was good," Oxarart said. "We evened up the teams so...
Richard L. Beyer of Great Falls passed away on August 21, 2024, at the age of 76. Services will be held at Hillcrest Lawn Memorial Chapel at 2:00 p.m. on August 31, 2024. Rick was born on April 30, 1948, and grew up in Malta, Mont. After graduating from Malta High School in 1966, he attended and graduated from Denver Automotive Institute. He then joined the Army and served from 1968-1970. On March 4, 1973, he married Debbie Boothe in Malta and was married to her for over 51 years. In 1974, he...
Malta Senior Center BINGO is every Friday at 1:00 at the Malta Senior Center. Malta School Board Mtg School Board Meetings are held every second Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. in the MHS Boardroom. Times and dates are subject to change. City Council Meetings City Council Meetings are held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at City Hall at 5 p.m. Knitting & Crochet Club The Knitting & Crochet Club will meet at Gone to Pieces Quilt Shop at 11 a.m. every Thursday. Lunch at River’s Bend Mon. and Wed. River’s Bend Assisted Living...
