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The Big Sandy Public Schools K-12 School District #2 has two open Big Sandy Trustee positions. The deadline for filing is March 28, 2024. There will be two seats open for the position of district Trustee; both Kelly Rutledge’s and Anna Bold’s seats are up for election. At the time of printing, the Mountaineer did not know if they would be running again. The Big Sandy School encourages community members to run. All interested community members over 18 years of age, registered voters, and district residents are eligible to run for the Board of...
As a child, I sat on the floor of my grandmother's house looking through volume after volume of National Geographic. The photos transported me to amazing places filled with plants, animals and people. My imagination filled in the gaps for the words I could not read. I told my grandma I was going to visit those places and then ran out the door pretending to explore. Those memories encouraged me to become a National Geographic Educator in 2020 and that experience led Mark and me to travel on the...
The recent cold weather pushed local thermometers deep into negative territory, bringing with it cars that wouldn't start, plumbing headaches, and strains on heating systems. The impact was particularly severe for two of Big Sandy's larger organizations. The High School and Big Sandy Activities experienced major issues during -40 lows in recent weeks. In both instances, frozen pipes burst, resulting in flooding and affecting daily operations. Superintendent Dan Schrock explained the flooding at...
Top Yielding Spring Wheat Varieties for Chouteau County MSU Agricultural Research Centers have one test plot for spring wheat in Chouteau county which is managed by MSU Northern Agricultural Research Center (NARC) north of Loma. A special thanks to Peggy Lamb (NARC agronomist) for establishing and maintaining the Chouteau county test plot. The Extension office would also like to thank the McKeever family for donating the use of their land for MSU research. The NARC (Loma area) top three yielding spring wheat varieties (10-year average yield)...
Taking first is big. The Big Sandy FFA Senior team took 1st place, with Severin Heimbigner taking first individually. Cooper followed up, taking fifth out of several hundred kids. Conner Sibra and Christian Windrel supported him. It was interesting because Severin was chosen as the first tenor in the Honors Choir just a few weeks earlier. I was interested that he had succeeded in two totally different areas so close together. I asked Severin about his first-place win in FFA. "The contest I took...
The Big Sandy Medical Center has introduced a new mental health provider, Cheyenne Feltz, DNP PMHNP-BC, who is a Board Certified (BC) Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) with a Doctor of Nursing (DNP). Cheyenne said, "I know Ron (Wiens) is really passionate about mental health as well. He’s investing a lot into making sure there's some mental health access here.” Cheyenne was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a big city that is very different from here. “But my family's all from Montana. I think it was three days...
Kenneth Clifford Christofferson Ken was born to Carl Christofferson and Marguerite Tyler in Fort Benton, Montana on February 12th, 1940. He was raised on the family homestead farm in Big Sandy where from a young age he acquired a passion for agriculture. Ken passed away peacefully in his home in Missoula at the age of 83 from natural causes. In the summer of 1962 Ken met Leslie Schulte of Glendive in Great Falls on Broadwater Bay and on December 13th of that same year they married at Our Lady...
The kids wrestled well this past weekend. We've seen a lot of improvement this season and hope to have a good showing at the state tournament this weekend. The team qualified 8 wrestlers for the state tournament. Randi Hardman 107 lbs. 3rd Place. State Qualifier Harley LaBuda 120 lbs. 2nd place. State Qualifier Leah Le Pennit 126 lbs. 7th place Dalijalin Sunchild 185 lbs. 3rd place. State Qualifier Quinn Rodewald 120 lbs. 2nd Place. State Qualifier Garrett LeFurgey 126 lbs. 6th place. State...
The Lady Pioneers went 2-0 this past weekend in games with similar scores for both games. They first faced Hays and won by 39 points with a score of 63-24. Then turned around and played North Star and won by 28 points with a score of 65-37. Travis Baumann wrote, "In Hays, we shot 46% and held them to 16%! We had 15 assists on 27 made shots, which is 56% assists on made shots! Our defense dominated the game, generating 21 steals and causing 28 turnovers! We outrebounded Hays 44-19. Every varsity...
The Pioneers split this past weekend with a win in Hays by 4 points and a final score of 44-40. Then the Pioneers played North Star the next night and battled hard but ended up losing by 24 points with a score of 67-43. Rhett Simonton said, "This week, we had some good moments and some learning points that will come with more experience, and hopefully, we can catch our stride at the right time going into tournaments." The Pioneers had great ball movement from the get-go and went up the first...
