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Too often we hear about the negative aspects of how public education has changed all the way from the federal level down to the one room school house. There is no debate that public education has changed. Some say those changes are not positive and feel we should go back to educating students like we did in the 50’s or the 80’s or at the turn of the century depending on what time frame you grew up in. Every change in public education can be debated on whether those changes are positive or negative and will continue to be debated from the fed...
Pioneer Pride in action. The Big Sandy Student Council went around and made a fund raiser out of painting pictures of an old Pioneer Covered Wagon in front of many businesses and homes throughout Big Sandy. Good job Student Council. We will remember our Pioneer Pride every time we go in the front door of "The Mountaineer"...
The Big Sandy Booster Club got a huge boost with a large number of Pioneers wanting to help out with Booster activities. The Booster Club rolls went from well under ten to over twenty and gains are being made even yet. The goals of the Booster Club are simple according to President Jeri Roth. They are to help students get excited about things to do in school whether they are athletic or academic. If there are places for science students to go to that are costly, Booster Club can help with those...
There is a new wave of Republicanism sweeping across Chouteau County. Gone are the Lincoln Day dinners traditionally held in Fort Benton. Instead the Republicans decided to have fun and move their main event for the year to Loma (half way between Fort Benton and Big Sandy), have it catered by Ma’s Café known for her Mexican treats and turn it into a Fall Festival of treats just to have fun and meet some new candidates for the United States Senate. According to Rick Jespersen the Community Hall in Loma is middle ground. It decorated easily an...
The regular Big Sandy City Council Meeting was held on September 7, 2017. After the welcome, the pledge was recited and minutes were approved from the last meeting. There was one visitor, no public comment and no sheriff’s report. The new water line project was discussed with Bear Paw Development. The Council is reviewing ways to bill people for water use more efficiently. In the process to change billing systems Big Sandy has held out for a long time but a new system would be more productive. The Council is still working on with Rural D...
Sharla Tester has donated a print of the USS Billings, a Latora Combat Ship. She was honored to be the one to christen the ship in June at the Fincantieri Marinette Wisconsin ship yard. The artists is Peter Has, he drew it in pencil and really did his research on the state of Montana. It has highlights of our state at the top, and has hidden treasures of Montana too. Sharla has donated this signed picture to the Jeff Reichlet Library in Big Sandy....
Farm Service Agency CED Bill Evans will be conducting informational meetings concerning the 2017 Livestock Forage Program (LFP), Emergency Conservation Program (ECP), and Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP) during the week of October 2nd – 6th. The first meeting will be held on Wednesday October 4th at the Big Sandy High School auditorium. The second meeting will be held on Thursday October 5th at the Fort Benton Elementary School auditorium. Both meetings will begin at 1:00 p.m. At each meeting, CED Evans will provide an overview o...
Sondra Jean Hanson passed away peacefully on Monday September 18, 2017 in Parker, Colorado from a stroke. She passed quickly and peacefully surrounded by her family. Sondra was born in Havre Montana March 24, 1942 to Robert and Evelyn Schwartz and was raised in Big Sandy, Montana with 4 brothers Bob, Rich, Ralph and Bruce. She attended college in Havre, Montana where she met her best friend and husband of nearly 55 years, Don. Sondra and Don enjoyed many years of travel, and adventures...
I was so surprised to pick up a recent issue of “Bon Appétit” Magazine and find a picture of Spaghetti and Meatballs on the front cover. I had thought spaghetti and meatballs a much too plain food for that magazine and further, I knew of few people who thought that spaghetti and meatballs is as comforting as it is for me. They wrote what I had known for many years, “Last winter, my wife invited an old friend over for Sunday dinner. Craving something simple and homey, I suggested spaghetti and meatballs. Someone agreed, adding garlic bread...
The Big Sandy Pioneer football team are a step closer to securing a berth in the upcoming State 6 Six- Man football playoffs following a 56-26 shellacking of the North Star Knights Friday night concluding another outstanding Chili Feed weekend. The Pioneers started fast taking a lead at the 6:00 minute mark of the first quarter when senior Weston Allderdice weaved his way to the endzone from 21 yards out to put Big sandy up 6-0. Allderdice again found the endzone late in the opening quarter,...
The Big sandy Pioneer volleyball team experienced all ends of the sporting spectrum this week falling to Box Elder and North Star in District 6C-East play and then winning their pool and finishing second at the Chester-J-I Mid-Season volleyball tournament. The Pioneers and Bears battled to five sets in their first match of the season but last Thursday it was the Bears that controlled the flow of the contest winning in three sets 25-14, 25-22 and 25-18. Georgia Wortman led the attack with five...
The Big Sandy Booster Club honored Leo Bitz at last Friday nights game against North Star. He was recognized for getting the Junior High football program going in 1996. Before that time there was not a Junior high program in Big Sandy. He was presented a signed football from the varsity and junior high teams. There were former and present Pioneer football players that met him on the field, along with his family....
Thursday, October 5: Volleyball at Chinook starts at 6 p.m. with JV. Flu shots will be given to students with their permission slips in. Friday, October 6: Volleyball hosts CJI starts at 6 p.m. with JV Jr. High and Varsity football travel to Valier Jr. High game is at 4 p.m. Varsity is at 7 p.m. Saturday, October 7: Volleyball host Centerville, it is also Parents night. Monday, October 9: Junior High Basketball practice starts The Representative from MSU will be at the High School at 11:15 for Junior and Seniors. Wednesday, October 11: Juniors...
This week the library recommends “THE DUTCHESS” by Danielle Steel. Angelique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. At eighteen she is her father’s closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angelique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty and en envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she w...
Contact Senior Citizen Cooks at 378-2405 Lunches for the coming week are as follows: Wednesday, October 4 chicken pot pie, salad and dessert. Thursday, October 5 spaghetti and meat sauce, vegetables, salad, garlic toast and dessert. Friday, October 6 potato soup, ham and cheese sandwiches with dessert. Monday, October 9 hamburger macaroni soup, salad, dessert and buns for the Lunch of the Week! Tuesday, October 10 turkey pot pie, salad and dessert. This week how about a couple of golden oldie recipes from The Old Dry. Chili Con Carne by Mrs....
