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What a week! Sympathy to the Glenn Compton family and to the Justin Lucas family! Two huge funerals for the week. So much sadness. I spent the week house/dog sitting in Billings. I picked up Fran...

What a week of summer weather! High temps and plenty of wind! And even at night, it didn't cool down much. But that is what summer is in Montana! Only one night of warm temps and that may be more noti...

Oh, the wonderful variation of weather in Montana! One day this week I'm sure the temperature was over 100 degrees, windy, and just miserable to me. But then the next day was in the low 80’s, still...

Much of the hay barley has been swathed and huge bales are being dropped in the fields as the farmers store up the feed for winter use. To me, it looks like a great year, if the swathes can get baled...

Just the typical summer days for this week, hot, high temps in the 90’s then afternoon or evening storms that don't last long but still make me worry! Today for instance, I was driving back from...

Dr. Ray Rogers, professor at MacAlister University in Minnesota, attended the Judith River Formation Symposium in Malta recently with 13 freshman and sophomore students. These young people attend...

Happy July! And what a mixed up Mother Nature we have! The high temperatures ranged from the low 59’s to low 90’s! The rain was spotty, but where it rained, it was a deluge! We did not get...

What a wonderful week of summer weather! After the rains of last weekend, the bright sunny days were welcome, but then we'd have a thunderstorm in the afternoons right up until Saturday. The crops...

The rain came! I don't keep an almanac, but I don't think it has rained as much in June for five years or so. It really was a welcome rain! I've heard that we got more than 2.5 inches! Happy summer! W...

Lots of baby gophers around now! The grass is growing tall enough it is harder to spot the little buggers! We had a small shower of rain on Thursday. We will be praying for more since the crops look...

Greetings readers of the Phillips County News! The week started out cool but we warmed up by the end of the week to 80+! As someone said we had our two weeks of spring and now it is summer! Most of...

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...