Malta student ends reign as Hays Princess

Malta Middle School eighth grade student Aubri Werk - who generally graces the pages of this newspaper in regard to her scholastic, ranching, and athletic prowess - spent the last year crowned as the Hays Senior Princess in her hometown of Hays, Mont.

The PCN caught up with Werk at the Phillips County Fair in Dodson where she was just a week away from crowning her successor at the Hays Powwow and was busy with Open Class entries (she would win a purple ribbon in bread in the Open Class.) Werk explained she earned her crown last year when her predecessor, Kassi Perez of Lodge Pole, Mont., pi...