Agriculture

The "2nd Annual Bluegrass in the Park" will be kicking off the 28th Lewis & Clark Festival, Friday night, June 16th, at Gibson Park down in Great Falls. TWO bands will be featured this year, Laney Lou & the Bird Dogs from Bozeman will be the opening band with the HEADLINER coming all the way from Nashville? I'm ja...

Hats off & a "Tip of R Towers" to the dedicated volunteers who plant AND care for all the planters & flowers containers that line Roosevelt Highway, Oilfield Avenue, Main Street & Central Avenue. No doubt about it...these BEAUTIFUL flowers & shrubs brighten our Shelby roadways & welcome visitors & residents alike. NOW, there are several ...

Sage advise for sure & THIS weekend, The RECC's program will be having their Annual Garden Plant Sale! TONS of cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, cabbage, cauliflower & other plants will be ON SALE & available out in front of our Shelby High School. The hours ...

I'll be up at my usual Tuesday night hangout tonight, the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. We'll be reading MORE Montana History as we learn about the TRAGIC Yellowstone earthquake. We're about a quarter way into the book, "The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake" by Larry Morris, & in my opinion, it's one of the most frightening books we're read. I'...

That's how Neil Mellblom, a reporter for "Time and Life," wrote about the road 3 miles north of West Yellowstone after the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake. He wrote that asphalt was spread as far as a foot in many places & the driving surface dipped east to west & north to south & then back again. We're curr...

I'm working up a hunger for some good spaghetti & this evening (Monday) down in Valier, the FCCLA will be putting on a Spaghetti Supper at the Valier Methodist Church. The FCCLA's supper will be on the platters from 5 until 6:30 at the church. Bu...

The Juras Benefit is coming up TONIGHT (Saturday) down at the Dutton American Legion. All the FUN will kick off at 5:30 SHARP this afternoon with a real western dinner along with an auction, a bouncy house, & activities for the children. Do...

Why not! Parisian & Southern trained chef & Georgia's OFFICIAL culinary explorer, Chef Jennifer Hill Booker, is out with a real delight to read, cook from, & gaze at with her coffee table presentation of a big beautiful book that will know your socks off! It's "Dinn...

How does YOUR garden grow? Just ask Peggy Zimmerman in Phillipsburg! Here comes an invitation from Diana Raymond. Diana's the President of our Toole County Garden Club, & they're having a SPECIAL DVD presentation of "The Most Challenging of Garden's" this evening (Monday.) T...

You can "Bank" on this banquet being a good one! The Conrad FFA Banquet is scheduled for THIS Monday night, & if it's anything like their last one, it should prove to be SPECTACULAR! The Conrad FFA Banquet will get underway at 6:30 SHARP Monday evening down at the Conrad High School Commons. Co...

There will be a Community Meeting on the Secretarial Election Process for the proposed Blackfeet Constitution THIS weekend. The meeting's scheduled for this Sunday evening over at the Seville Head Start. Sunday nights meeting "STARTS" at 6 o'clock straight up...

Talk about a regular "Day in the shade!" There'll be a Tree & Lawn Care Workshop THIS Monday over at the Glacier County Courthouse Annex in Cut Bank &Toby Day will be "Saving the day." Toby's the MSU Extension Horticulture Specialist, & he'll be covering the hard fundamentals like tree & management, tree pruning, lawn care management, watering, fertilization &am