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Interim CEO Larry Putnam reports Phillips County Hospital recently received 10 isolation gowns for use during the COVID-19 outbreak from the Montana Hospital Association (MHA). MHA distributed 400 of the isolation gowns manufactured by SIMMS Fishing Products to small hospitals across the state. These reusable isolation gowns were made using a technical two-layer and three-layer waterproof, breathable fabric donated by Mervin Manufacturing. Phillips County Hospital is one of 40 Critical Access Hospitals to receive the gowns, which were paid for...
If I could write a letter To Covid-19 And explain how I’m feeling, Here is how it’d read: Dear Covid-19, Why are you here? No offense to you, But I wish you’d disappear. All you bring is worry, Along with pain and stress. Don’t do you know the world was already Becoming a great big mess? You took away my senior year, Which is a hard pill to swallow. Missing out on my “lasts”, And here’s a list to follow. I missed my senior prom, the chance to dance with all my friends, my bus trips got cut short, this is not how this should end. I think the cla...
Cary Woodruff, Director of Paleontology for the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum in Malta returned to the "land of dinosaurs" in time that allowed him to quarantine per the COVID-19 guidelines and work towards opening the museum for the 2020 season which is set for Monday, June 1st. Looking back at 2019 Woodruff reports is was a great year with many successes: Our Jr. Paleo. Program had several young participants, and we love that so many kids are learning and experience the wonders of paleontology...
Behind the Phillips County Museum stands a log cabin. The cabin has been a part of our complex for many years but was recently renovated and now depicts a miner’s cabin. The cabin was originally from the Zortman area and was rescued by the BLM and given to us a few years ago. Willie Doll and crew helped us preserve the cabin by chinking between the logs. The public is invited to step inside and step into the daily life of a prospector....
The Villa Theatre in Malta lights up Central Avenue on Thursday night, the first time the new sign was turned on since being installed over the past week. The lighting of the marquee coincided with the re-opening of the Villa following months of closure due to Covid-19 restrictions. The total cost of the new marquee was approximately $40,000. The Villa will be open this week with two features, one for children, the other for adults. Photo by Mark Hebert....
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced details of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), which will provide up to $16 billion in direct payments to deliver relief to America’s farmers and ranchers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to this direct support to farmers and ranchers, USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box program is partnering with regional and local distributors, whose workforces have been significantly impacted by the closure of many restaurants, hotels, and other food service ent...
Dear Editor, The COVID-19 viral pandemic seems to have caught our population unprepared. Global Free Trade leaves us susceptible to another viral pandemic--foot and mouth disease (FMD). Fresh and frozen meat from enzootic (infected) countries can contain the live virus. Therefore imported meat from an enzootic country falsely labeled 'product of the USA' can be infective. The virus is devastating, very contagious, and can cause lasting health issues in infected animals that survive. It spreads by air, ingestion, and contaminated objects (sound...
Dear Editor, I am completing a nonfiction history book on Montana “disasters” that will be published in coming months by Farcountry Press in Helena. One of the stories in the book is about the July 1936 fire in the Little Rockies that killed three men and burned a number of others. I have found numerous newspaper accounts of the fire (and others that started at about the same time), which started near Lodge Pole and burned toward Zortman. Two of three killed were working for the U.S. Geological Survey. The third was a man named John Roles, who...
After a lifetime of crying over the ones that got away, I’m finally at peace with all those lost fish. They were simply meant to be. Fishing last week with my friend Mike on the Big Dry Arm of Fort Peck Lake, I hooked something heavy that stayed deep. Within seconds Mike said: “That’s a big ‘eye.” He would know. A Minnesota native, Mike is the best walleye angler I’ve ever shared a boat with. He’s adept at every technique from bottom bouncing to vertical jigging to trolling crank baits. There...
Marlene Rae (Erickson) Freitag 81 years old, died of natural causes at the Hi-line Retirement Center of Malta, Mont., in the early hours of Saturday, May 16, 2020. A Graveside Service will be held on Friday, May 29 at 10 a.m., at Malta Cemetery. Marlene was born August 20, 1938, in Fargo, N.D., to Ken and Alma Erickson and was later joined with her was her brother Ronnie. She graduated high school in Leonard, N.D. She later met her future husband Dale who grew up in a town a few miles away. After high school, she went to college to pursue a...
Edward Lee Solberg, 78, passed away Monday, May 18th, 2020, at his home in Dodson, Mont. Graveside services will be held Saturday, May 30th, at 2 p.m. at the Hillside Cemetery north of Dodson. Edward was born June 14, 1941, in Malta, to Albert and Olga Solberg as the seventh of 10 kids. He graduated from Dodson High School in 1959, and then went on to Concordia College for two years. After college, in 1963, Edward enlisted with the Montana National Guard, assigned to Troop C, of the 1/163rd Armored Cavalry unit in Malta. He completed his years...
Donald “Donny” Earl Ereaux, 55, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Sunday, May 17, 2020. Recitation of the rosary took place on Tuesday, May 26, 2020, at 10 a.m. followed by the funeral liturgy at 11 a.m., both at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, with a celebration of life to follow at 1 p.m. at the Tin Cup, all in Malta, Mont. Donny was born in Malta on November 27, 1964. He was raised in Malta and graduated from Malta High School in 1984. Donny enlisted into the Navy in 1985. After “A” school he was assigned to the USS Independe...
Malta Senior Meals Call the GN at 654-2210 for more information. Malta Landfill hours City of Malta Landfill hours effective until further notice are: Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closing Monday-Friday from 1-2 p.m. for the lunch hour. Closed on Sundays. Studio Stiles reopening Studio Stiles is reopened and offering Gym, Tanning packages, as well as Online Training packages in Malta. 654-2136 for more info. MRGJ canceled for 2020 The Milk River Gospel Jamboree, which was to be held July 26-through-28, has been canceled...
As Milk River water users have been warning for decades will happen, the 100-year-old system that supplies much of the water in the river has suffered a catastrophic failure. A concrete drop structure on the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance work washed out and collapsed Sunday. St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group Co-Chair and Montana State University Phillips County Extension Agent Marko Manoukian said Drop 5, which is one of five drops on the St. Mary's project up near Babb and is the last...
On Sunday May 17, the Drop 5 structure collapsed due to its significant age of 104 years old. Since being organized in 2003 by then Lt. Governor Karl Ohs, the 16-citizen member of the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group have been regularly meeting to engage congressional and state leaders to start repairing the system before it suffered catastrophic failure. The US irrigation project irrigates 140,000 acres, serves as a water source for 18,000 people and produces enough food for 1 million...
12 years ago May 24, 1945 Dodson veterans will organize Legion post Dodson veterans of World Wars I and II have made an application for a charter for a post of American Legion to be known as the "Gung Ho" post. The application for a charter was signed by 14 veterans of the two wars. The new post will be the third in Phillips County, Saco also having a comparatively new post. Grade School kids have successful sports day The grade school children of Malta, South Wagner, and other various rural...
Saco Public School has announced the Semester 2 Honor Rolls for the 2019-20 year which includes 14 students from grades 7-through 11. Those students are: Superintendent’s Honor Roll List (4.00 to 3.75) Jaycee Erickson, 10; Dylan Brown, 10th; Daeson Salveson, 10th; Teagan Erickson, 8th; Jocelyn Brown, 8th; and Nathan Salveson, 8th. Honor Roll (3.74 to 3.25) Chayten Pippin, 11th; Jaydyn Erickson, 11th; Beau Sudbrack, 10th; Jessa Erickson, 07th; Sandra Sones, 7th; Carter Pippin, 7th; and Blaine Downing, 7th....
Pinochle On Tuesday, May 12, the gang got back together for the first time in a while and Jerry Depute showed no rust with a first-place finish following a 7,010 tally, while Leonard Leader ranked second with a score of 6,7403 Two days later, on Thursday, May 12, the players shuffled up again and this time Lou Olson captured first with 4,560, Barb Stevens played valiantly with a total of 4,340 to take second and the traveling prize was awarded to both Lou and Von Holzhey. Whist On Tuesday, May 19, Lou Stevens scored 53 to out dual Lee Stevens...
5-20. Sympathy to Baptist Pastor Bergess, wife Alyssa, and family on the loss of a family member. The Bergess family left Whitewater for South Carolina for the funeral. Wishing a speedy recovery to Adam Hellie who had an accident recently. Congratulations to Challis Young, my granddaughter, om her recent wedding. They had a small, private ceremony and party due to the COVID-19 virus quarantines. Best wishes to the newlyweds. Children grow up too fast, don’t they? Sad news in Whitewater as t...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will continue to operate six ports of entry in Montana and one in Idaho at reduced hours due an agreement signed by Canada and the United States to extend the “essential only” travel restrictions through at least June 22, or until the Administration lifts the current travel restrictions. With the “essential only” travel restrictions first imposed on March 21 in response to the COVID 19 pandemic, cross-border travel significantly declined. Reducing the hours of operations at ports of entry along both la...
HELP WANTED Landfill Gatekeeper The City of Malta has a seasonal/full time position available. Job description includes working as the landfill gatekeeper. Work schedule will be Tuesday – Saturday, April – September. Pay rate is D.O.E., vacation and sick time, holiday pay. Applications and job descriptions are available at the city office or at the Havre Job Service. Position is open until filled. City of Malta is an EEO employer. The city reserves the right to reject any or all applications. Full-time Clinic LPN, CMA or CNA PC Family Hea...
PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES DUE All 2020 Personal Property tax statements in Phillips County have been mailed. The 2020 Personal Property taxes are due in one payment by 5:00 p.m. on or before June 30, 2020. If the taxes are not paid by this date, the amount payable is delinquent and draws interest at the rate of 5/6 of 1% a month until paid and 2% must be added to the delinquent taxes as a penalty (MCA 15-16-119). Jean Mavencamp Phillips County Treasurer (Published by Phillips County News 05/27/2020) MNAXLP Notice of...
Graveside services for lifelong resident Edward Solberg will be Saturday, May 30, at 2 p.m. The whole community sends condolences to Polly and the entire Solberg family in the death of Edward. Condolences are also sent to the family of the former Misty Munsinger in her passing. The many little showers we have been having over the past week have really been keeping things green. Thank heaven we missed the hail that part of the state had. I cannot even imagine hail from 2" to 4" in diameter....
When the rubber hits the road is when winners are eventfully crowned and couple that with the adage of "use it or lose it" states, it's time to head to the Villa Theatre in Malta and buy some tickets because it could possibly be now, or never. Since Greg and Jan Kirkwood have taken a stronger interest in the storied movie-house (and eventually bought it) the work that has gone on over there to make the accommodations as pleasing as possible is kind of incredible. There were a lot of complaints about the Villa before this — and let us not f...
Joyce Erickson, Saco School paraprofessional, was recently honored for her 20 years of dedicated service to the Saco School. Joyce will be retiring at the end of this school year....
