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  • Classified Ads for September 21, 2016

    Sep 21, 2016

    FOR SALE FOR SALE: 50 pound bags Coarse Softener Salt. CHS Big Sky, 246 Industrial Road, Malta, 654-2022. FOR SALE: Jacuzzi pumps, water softeners & water softener salt. Call Farmers & Ranchers 654-1412. HELP WANTED Missionary, desiring day work periodically throughout the winter and early spring. Feeding, calving, fence mending, working cattle, shipping help, yard work, misc. labor. Call Alan at 406-301-1870. The City of Malta has 1 permanent/full time positions available. Job description includes working as the landfill gatekeeper/city crew...

  • Legal Ads for September 21, 2016

    Sep 21, 2016

    NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT (FONSI) PROGRAMMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR FORT BELKNAP NOXIOUS WEED MANAGEMENT Fort Belknap Indian Reservation The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has prepared a Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for the implementation of a noxious weed management program guided by the Fort Belknap Indian Community Noxious Weed Management Strategic Plan 2013-2018 (Strategic Plan) on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (FBIR). The FBIR is located in north central Montana within portion...

  • Malta School Board Meeting

    Mark Hebert, Editor|Sep 21, 2016

    The Malta School District has a slight increase in enrolled students to start the 2016-17 school year with a total of 503 pupils this year and 496 last year. The Malta School Board held its first meeting of the new school year in which school principals Theodore Schye, Shawn Bleth and Scott King each gave reports to the trustees which included this year’s enrollment numbers. Enrollment at Malta Elementary School is up from by nine students from the start of last year with a total of 241 students starting the year for 2016-17 (the total was 2...

  • Town council approves budget

    Mark Hebert, Editor|Sep 21, 2016

    Editor’s Note: Taken from Malta City Clerk Lorie Bond’s minutes. The City Council of Malta has given final approval on the 2016-17 budget and a total of 205 mills will be levied at $2,253.66, totaling property tax revenues in the new budget at $462,000.30. During the Communications portion of the meeting, Malta Mayor Shyla Jones informed the council that two travel trailers which had been parked illegally in City limits had been moved. She said that the Hi-Line Foundation's request for a street closure for Oktoberfest had been canceled, as the...

  • Mustangs survive Panthers scrum

    Pierre Bibbs, Sports Editor|Sep 21, 2016

    The Malta Mustangs overcame a large hurdle this season, defeating the Roundup Panthers 19-12 in Malta's homecoming game last Friday at Mustang Field. The win is Malta's first of the season. The team will try to start a winning streak as they travel to Poplar to take on the Indians on Friday at 7 p.m. "It was great for these guys to get their first victory and maybe give us some confidence and give us something to work for and realize that we can play with some teams," Mustangs Head Coach Nick...

  • Stiles verbally commits to U of M

    Pierre Bibbs, Sports Editor|Sep 21, 2016

    Last Tuesday, Malta M-ette senior Sophia Stiles announced that she had intent to play for the University of Montana Lady Grizzlies during her collegiate freshman year. The commitment right now is in the verbal stage, but Stiles plans on signing with the team in November. Stiles has been a valuable piece of the Malta M-ettes basketball team since her freshman season in which the team has since finished as state runner-up in 2014, and the State B Champions in both the 2015 and 2016 seasons. While... Full story

  • Kohler lands hunt of a lifetime

    Pierre Bibbs, Sports Editor|Sep 21, 2016

    Last Wednesday, Wild Sheep Foundation member Mike Kohler of Yulee, Fla., was able to cash in on a tag of a lifetime as he tagged a 300 pound, 11 year old bighorn ram off of a 20-year-old Ft. Belknap Reservation tag originally sold to Malta's Babsie Bishop. "I went to the council and asked them if I could market it," Bishop said. "My wife Toni had cancer at the time and we had some hospital bills. So they gave me the blessing to market it." The sheer size of the ram wasn't the only thing special... Full story

  • Phillips County News Athlete of the Week for September 21: Libby Rush

    Pierre Bibbs, Sports Editor|Sep 21, 2016

    Libby Rush Sophomore, Malta High School Favorite hobby: I like to watch Netflix. Favorite meal after a meet: Pepperoni or Meat Lover's Pizza. Favorite subject: Culinary Arts. Define you as an animal: A unicorn. Fave dessert: Cheesecake. Favorite movie: The Notebook. Favorite TV show: The Walking Dead. Goal GPA: 4.0. One thing on a desert Island: My Tanning Lotion....

  • M-ettes drop games to district foes

    Pierre Bibbs, Sports Editor|Sep 21, 2016

    The Malta M-ettes lost a pair of games this past week, one to Wolf Point on Saturday in Malta and the other last Thursday to the Lady Scotties in Glasgow. The team will look to rebound as they travel to the Dickinson Invitational in North Dakota on Friday. The team fought hard in their loss to Glasgow but fell in three sets. The scores were 25-23, 25-16 and 25-21. “We had eighteen blocks in that game, so that was really fun for the girls,” Coach Tasha Hines said. “Our defense was just a little b...

  • M-ettes first in Wolf Point, third at Frazer Invitational

    Pierre Bibbs, Sports Editor|Sep 21, 2016

    The Malta M-ette cross country team took an afternoon bus east and ventured to Frazer for their annual mid-September Thursday meet. Glasgow won the event with 47 points, Poplar was second with 82 points and Malta took third with 142. The M-ettes previously won the Wolf Point Invitational on Thursday, September 1 with an overall score of 67 points. Richey was second with 108 points. There were 54 runners present representing 12 schools. The schools present were Harlem, Poplar, Richey/Lambert,...

  • Dodson Speedway AMX to hold benefit race October 1-2

    Kari Hould, PCN Correspondent|Sep 21, 2016

    Engines are roaring and the final touches are being added to what seems to be an aging group of AMX cars in preparation for the final race of the year. This race is Oct. 1 and 2 in Dodson and will be a benefit race for Russell Jaynes. Russell was diagnosed in February of 2016 with adenoid cystic carcinoma and since then has had two major surgeries, followed by six weeks of intense radiation. His surgeries were in Salt Lake City, Utah - and this cancer is so rare he was only the 17th case they have had in their hospital. Following his surgeries...

  • Mavericks defeat Lustre, play at Froid-Medicine Lake Invitational

    Pierre Bibbs, Sports Editor|Sep 21, 2016

    The North Country Mavericks opened the week with a win against the Lustre Christian Lady Lions last Friday in Lustre. The team won 3-0 with the scores being 25-12, 25-22 and 25-15. “One thing I noticed is that we were able to get the ball set a little better,” Coach Barry Malone said. “Our passing is improving and Casity was able to get to the pass. There were some that were a little errant but she got to some, and was able to get it to some of our big hitters who were able to knock it down.” Co...

  • Harriers post personal bests at tough Frazer course

    Pierre Bibbs, Sports Editor|Sep 21, 2016

    Thursday, September 15 saw the Dodson-Whitewater Harriers tackling the ever tough Frazer Invitational meet. Three of the Harriers posted personal bests in one of the last true cross-country courses with the beautiful Missouri River in the background and including the infamous “killer hill”. “It rained down there,” Harriers Coach Bruce Warren said. “And the course was muddy but by the time the varsity kids ran it was dried up enough.” For the ladies, Bella Lawless finished in 32nd place with...

  • Enersons honored with patriotic award

    Kari Hould, PCN Correspondent|Sep 21, 2016

    Malta residents, Dale and Elaine Enerson were honored last week in a brief ceremony in which VFW Auxiliary President, Cheryl Wallace presented the couple with the VFW Patriotic Citizen Award. They were honored for their continual display of the US Flag on the pole on the corner of their yard, which is light up at night and wrapped in a string of colored lights as well. The certificate reads: Given in grateful appreciation for unsolicited inspirational patriotic service to the community through daily display of our National Flag Dale said he...

  • Constitution Week

    Sep 21, 2016

    What is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day? Constitution Day is observed each year on September 17th to commemorate the signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787. Originally entitled Citizenship Day, recent legalization has renamed the day as Constitution and Citizenship Day and mandated that federally funded schools and federal agencies provide instruction and information about the Constitution. In 1955, President Eisenhower proclaimed the first Constitution Week with Proclamation...