Phillips County News - One Nation, Under God

Greetings from sunny Arizona! I flew down from Billings to visit my brother and his wife, Scott and Roxanne Cowan. I'll just be here for a few days! It was a tad bit chilly when I landed, about 50...

Polly Solberg returned home after visiting her brother and other relatives in Great Falls. Matt Cole and sons of Billings visited Wink and Terri Cole over the weekend. Steve Cole stopped at his...

I told you last week that we got a new house in Loring and now I need to say that one of our empty trailer homes has been repurposed by a family in Whitewater! How nice to have another family put it...

Greetings on this fine fall Sunday! The whole week the highs were in the upper 60's while the lows were around the freezing mark. And the extra bonus, not much wind! The robins are still hanging aroun...

I realized, even more, this week about how fickle our Montana weather is! If you don't like it wait a day or so and it'll change. The Loring community extends sympathy to the Wasson family on the...

The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum has closed for the season. Two thousand three hundred seventy guests toured the museum this summer. Of those 163 were military families who came in under Blue Star....

Fall has arrived! I'm kind of sad but I know that spring will soon arrive. For now, I'm enjoying the birds migrating, the coloration changes in the leaves, and the crisp temperatures! Now, this next...

Soon the first official day of fall will arrive! The cottonwood tree leaves are turning golden but no frost yet! The songbirds are stopping in droves to grab a bit of nutrition from our trees and...

8-26. Thank you, Lord, for sending us a taste of rain this weekend. Loring got almost a half inch, not a lot, but better than none. Tom and I went to Billings for a couple of days this week. We...

This week the smoke has been so thick in the air that I really believe that the dinosaurs went extinct when the sun was blocked out and vegetation was not available for them to eat! Of course, it...

Blessings to all the teachers and students who start back to school this week, especially the Whitewater Penguins! I drove to Billings on Wednesday for a few days of appointments and visiting! David...

Happy Monday, everyone! Today is decompression day after the Phillips County Fair! Congrats to everyone for a very successful 103rd fair! Dixie Stordahl took Cary Woodruff and Emily Keeble to the fai...

7-25. The Loring Woman's Club met at Heather Simonson's home for the first meeting of the new year. We decided on our raffle prizes for the fall dance. First prize will be a Traeger grill and second p...

Happy National Ice Cream Month! I actually had a small cone Sunday to celebrate Ice Cream Day! The Bike the US for MS bikers reached Malta right on schedule Sunday, July 15! They are biking from Bar...

Greetings, my faithful followers! Last week I was just coming home from surgery in Billings and did not even think about an early publication date. My sister Debbie drove me home so that was a treat,...

Debbie and Leroy Dyrdahl were pleasantly surprised last week when Debbie's sister, Jerilyn Bisbee of Denver, Colo., drove up to visit! She did all the cooking and spoiled them with delicious food!...

5.27. Debbie Dyrdahl called and said that the angel was flying around her house again this week. Cindy Clark stopped into shampoo the carpets and Debbie and Leroy are most appreciative. We all should...

A memorial service for Billie Dunbar was celebrated at the Whitewater Lutheran Church on Saturday. Billie attended school in Whitewater and was a classmate of Leroy Simonson, George Anderson, Pat Dunb...

Welcome to the goldfinches! Now I'm waiting for the king birds and the lark buntings. Everything seems about a week behind last year. The Whitewater middle school through high school took a field trip...

I'm pretty sure that spring is here, at least, for the moment. The temps are in the 70's, the sun is out, not much wind, birds are twittering, ducks and geese are swimming and honking...yes, I think...

This Saturday was the demise of many gophers in our area. A total of 28 were out seeing the sites and stopped in Loring at the Fire Hall fundraiser! The youngest person was Ivan Lefdahl, about 10-12...

More snow fell up here this week! We have not had enough warmth to get the Whitewater Creek running, but I see the Big and Little Cottonwood and the Assiniboine Creeks are sending a little water into...

I'm trusting that everyone had a great Easter celebration! The weather was a bit unsettled, but no new snow during the day. I saw Twila Johannesen in Malta this week and she said that Scott and Jenn...

Happy Easter, everyone! May all the colored eggs you find be hard boiled! Maybe the snow will be gone so the eggs can be hidden outside...nah! If the eggs aren't colored, they may be hard to find....

My brother in Arizona asked if some pieces of grass were poking through the snow yet. Another friend from Alaska asked if the ground was still frozen. Also our paleontologist Cary ordered some stu...