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The little song birds are returning by the droves! I saw the flycatchers, white crowned sparrow, eastern and western kingbirds, and lots of different warblers this week! It will be an interesting summ...

I know I've been remiss in getting my news into the paper on time. I have it written, but just don't get it sent in. So sorry. The last couple of weeks I've been spending a lot of time with Tom at the...

I saw two pheasant roosters fighting for territory close to 191N yesterday. I forgot how bright and flashy they are in the spring! Lots of Easter celebrating going on in the Loring community! Becca...

Happy Easter, Everyone! Jesus died to take away our sin! Carol Lumsden hosted a Bible study on Wednesday! Connie Wasson, Cindy Clark, Whitney Blunt and yours truly gathered to study and have a busines...

Here we are starting the second week of April! We have had super warm temps this week, even the lows were above freezing! We just have a small snirty snow pile left. Snirty is a word I learned from Iv...

The Western Meadowlarks have returned! I heard one on Saturday! Last year it seems like I whined about them not being here, but this year they are right on time! We also had a red admiral butterfly...

Happy first day of spring! I can see signs already! The snow has melted enough to fill the barrow pits along the highway! We are getting a little build up in our yard before it starts running! The...

Same old news...It's cold! I spotted a great horned owl sitting on my fence post today! I'm sure it was looking for tasty tidbits, maybe a sharp tail, a cat, or a gopher! The Clark kids celebrated a...

I'm not sure what happened to the Loring News Notes from last week, except they may have gotten frozen in the air! Anyway, I can't find them! It was a little warmer this past week, got a bit of drippi...

As most everyone knows, the temperatures have been brutal around northern Phillips County! The highs have not gone above zero for a week! It has been a few years since we've had sub-zero temps for a...

Winter is here! Most of the end of January was very nice, temperatures in the 40's or so, not too windy except one day, but February showed up and let us have it! Sunday the high was not above zero!...

Strange weather for January! Rain for a good part of the day with temps in the 40's. Then the wind started blowing and goodness sakes! If it wasn't tied down, look for it in Whitewater or North...

The Loring Woman’s Club is sponsoring a CPR/AED class at the Loring Church lower level on Feb. 12, with pot luck supper at 5:30 followed by class from 6 until 9. Loring has an AED but few people hav...

The sky has been clear for most of the week. The half moon very visible in the evening in the west and the morning star or Venus twinkling brightly in the eastern sky! The high temps have been in the...

Greetings in the new year. I'm sure that 2019 will bring wonderful things to you! Right now with the government shut down I'm nervous about the future. But we Americans will pull through. The wind...

Darn! I missed the deadline of noon on Friday! Well, I’m getting ready for next week which will also be an early deadline! The winter solstice has been and now the days have about two minutes more...

What a wonderful surprise for Debbie and Leroy Dyrdahl! In the past Debbie loved to decorate for Christmas but now her health won’t allow it. So Cindy and Dave. Clark saw a perfect tree for them and...

12-5. The last month of the year came in with a coating of white! We at Loring got about 4-6 inches and are very appreciative of the moisture! The snow gives the landscape a certain refreshing look!...

I hope all my readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving! The time is now to celebrate Advent and prepare for Christmas. Becca and Robert Engum of Great Falls were guests of Cindy and Dave Clark for...

I am a happy reporter just back from Arizona, where it was not all that warm but there was no snow as we have up here near the Canadian border! I mostly just got incredibly spoiled the whole time!...

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...