Sorted by date Results 1 - 11 of 11
The City Council met on Thursday, July 11th with everyone present except Mayor Shaud Schwarzbach Leslie Gregory reported the Big Sandy Swimming Pool Inspector showed up for a surprise visit and inspection. Historically, the pool was grandfathered for not meeting the requirements at the beginning because of the age of the pool. We are required to maintain an eight-hour water exchange; which means the water in the pool must all be taken out of the pool every eight hours. A couple of years ago we...
They start with a celebration of community with a potluck on Saturday night, Don provides ribs, beans, and salad. And it was more than just a time to buy from each other. Jimmy Griffin said, "it was a magically fun day!" There were over 20 vendors. One that had a 45-foot trailer with antique with a western flavor. Don Sorensen told me that vendors kept calling, and he would have accepted them even if the called on Sunday morning. "If people show up they'll just put them somewhere." It was an...
The tournament was a huge success! We had 22 teams register and it took about 4 hours to play through the bracket. It came down to an intense and close game with the team "The Hole Enchilada" Mica Griffith and Andy Verhasselt, winning the day and taking home the $200 prize. The second place team was the team "Mint Bar, Larry Jappe and Ryan Harber, $100 prize. $50 prize to the third place the team "Airmill." Jase Stokes and Nate Rismon. We were able to raise roughly $5000 and are very grateful!...
According to Sandy Broesder a volunteer at Coal Banks and a "full time RV'er", she's having "a blast!" She has minimalist life now, with small house on wheels and a dog, "a little mutt." She spent 40 plus year in Conrad area before this first-time volunteer at any site. "My passion is kayaking." She has kayaked the Missouri river, "Not as much as I would like to and I will do more." Not having been at Coal Banks Landing before she doesn't have a standard to compare this years attendance to the...
Bobcat is a high yielding solid stem hard red winter wheat with improved yield potential relative to other solid stem varieties. The variety will be available for non-certified seed producers in fall of 2020. The variety was developed by Phil Bruckner and Jim Berg from the Montana State University winter wheat breeding program. Bobcat is a selection from a composite cross of two unreleased Montana solid-stemmed experimental lines and an unreleased Montana hollow-stemmed line. Bobcat is awned, white-glumed, semi-dwarf wheat with medium to late...
Montana has important economics based on mining and agriculture, which rely on movement of materials of a bulk nature extensively involving railroads. Up to the days of the 1908 Homestead Act, mining and ranching were key, but that was all changed primarily with the arrival of railroads in the 1880's. Before railroads, shipment of supplies to Montana was by river steamboat, which travel time took months, or by wagon with limited load capacity. None of the railroad expansion would have been...
This summer the Jeff Memorial Big Sandy Library, is full of summer reading programs for kids and adults of all ages! The programs started on June 11th and will end August 2nd, but everyone is still encouraged to join! Every Wednesday at 10:30 am the library holds Pre-K storytime and crafts. On Thursdays at 1:00 pm storytime is held for kindergarten through sixth grade. Children are encouraged to attend weekly but it's not mandatory. The library wants to encourage kids to read during the summer...
The Girl in the Glass Box By James Grippando Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself, in this timely and pulse-pounding thriller that explores the stories behind the headlines from New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter Beatriz escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random...
I am a procrastinator by nature. Though I’ve gotten better about it over the years, when I was in college, I turned it into an art. I began by waiting until a few days before an assignment was due to start working on it. Then as time went by, the starting point moved to the day before. Eventually, I began setting my alarm early on the due date and rushing through the work. There were times I would print up papers and run to class to turn them in with seconds to spare. As I have grown older and begun to look back at those days with a little m...
Thursday, July 18- Fish burger with lettuce and Tomato Friday, July 19- Grilled Ham & Cheese sandwiches, and Tomato soup. Monday, July 22- Chicken Pot Pie, and pears. Tuesday, July 23- Beef -n- Bean Burrito and Fried Rice.Wednesday, July 24- Pork Roast, fried Potato, carrots, and cucumber salad. Recipe of the week: Bacon-Ranch Chicken Enchiladas Ingredients cooking spray 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/4 cup chopped yellow onion 1/2 leftover rotisserie chicken, chopped 1/4 cup crumbled cooked bacon 2 tablespoons roasted garlic 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2...
Barracuda swimmers have taught me once again the real value of a sport. This last weekend I attended the swim meet at Conrad both Saturday and Sunday. I was going to interview the kids, but to be honest they couldn't give me a complete story to write about because they all said the same thing. "The best part of swimming is meeting new friends." That sentence doesn't say it all. Maybe because they wouldn't express it the way I write it. Meeting new friends means so much more and they have fun for...
