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Each year on the first Wednesday of January, "The Mountaineer" reviews the most interesting and best stories of the last twelve months. We review the most noteworthy stories and maybe even a noteworthy picture or two. It is a good way to get started with our stories of 2017. The 2017 stories are all pretty much mysteries yet but the 2016 stories; well here we go on a fun journey back through the last year in Big Sandy, Montana. One could say that this is 2016 in review, the Good the Bad and the...
By Bruce Auchly FWP Region 4 Information Officer After all the slicing and dicing and studying of wildlife, along comes an animal or two that just won't fit into a category, showing us we really don't know it all. In the last two years, a pair of cow moose radio collared on the Rocky Mountain Front as part of a 10-year population dynamics study has displayed a wanderlust that has confounded Nick DeCesare, research wildlife biologist with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. "We've seen local...
“On Thursday 7 July 2005 a series of four bomb attacks struck London’s public transport system. . . 56 people killed, 700 injured.” --Wikipedia By my annual October trip to London I have buried the exploded British bodies under Katrina’s casualties But still can’t take the bus two kilometers from Euston Station to St. Margaret’s Hotel Suitcases too heavy to lift into a bus I tell myself Losing my first private battle against terrorism As I pull two suitcases and herd the third down Upper Woburn Place All the while awarding myself a walking ovat...
Montana’s Next Generation Conference to feature Dave Pratt and production workshops Registration is now open for Montana’s Next Generation Conference. The conference, which will take place Friday and Saturday, January 27-28, 2017, in Shelby, MT will focus on business planning for the farm or ranch and production workshops. The conference begins Friday at 11 a.m. at the Shelby Civic Center. Dave Pratt from ‘Ranching for Profit,’ will lead participants through two sessions, ‘The Three Secrets for Increasing Profit,’ and ‘Hard Work and Harmony....
Dorothy Yvonne (Frieling) Stovall, 81, passed away Wednesday, December 21, 2016. Funeral services will be held at 11 am on Saturday, January 7, 2017 at the Immaculate Conception Church in Fort Benton. Burial will follow at Riverside Cemetery. Arrangements are in the care of O'Connor Funeral Home. Dorothy was born October 5, 1935 to John J. and Veronica (Nagengast) Frieling in Fort Benton. She was the 9th child of 10. She graduated from Fort Benton High School in 1954. On April 12, 1958 she...
I have given this recipe for scalloped potatoes to many people. Most of them have raved about it. I cooked it for Christmas Day and proclaimed it to be the best scalloped potatoes I have ever eaten. Part of it is the fact that it has plenty of ham in it. It also has plenty of whipping cream in it, lots of onions, lots of cheese and just plain old dry mustard. But the single most important ingredient of all is the brown sugar and while the recipe calls for a cup and a half, I think that two cups is not too much. Anyway here is what you will...
