Gardening

The MSU Extension office will be conducting training NEXT Thursday, the 17th, for folks who'd like to obtain their private pesticide applicators license. The class will be down at the Moose Lodge in Conrad, from 8am to 5pm. It's $30, to attend & this includes your books. Do...

The book is, "A Farmer's Life; Notes from Terhune Orchards," beautifully authored by Gary Mount. You'll read about Gary & Pam Mount as they returned from the Peace Corps back in the 70's, & bought a 55 acre farm. Their farm isn't anything at all like "Green Acres," on the old television show, as Gary & Pam find meaning in life through vocation-the growing of apples,

The Farm Rain Gauge Network is being EXPANDED over in Liberty County. If you'd like to volunteer, training & distribution of rain gauges will be held at 10:30, next Wednesday (3/9) morning, at the youth center in Chester. For more information, please contact AgGroWeather Media at 541 240 0551. As...

The Missoula Children's Theatre will be over in Cut Bank, on Monday, the 7th. They'll be conducting auditions for "Johnny Appleseed" from 4 until 6, Monday afternoon in the Cut Bank High School Auditorium. All students from kindergarten through 12th grade are encouraged to join in & audition. TH...

Our Shelby FFA & the Shelby High School band "Fresh Fruit Fundraiser" is underway. The fruit will be delivered DIRECTLY to your home with the proceeds will help out both our FFA & the band. The band's hoping to update their 20 year old concert uniforms, plus the FFA plans to offset the cost of their trip to the National FFA, along with other competitions throughout the state. It'

This Friday, the 18th, is the DEADLINE to RSVP for the Golden Triangle Barley Seminar. Friday's all day seminar will run from 8:45, to 4, in the afternoon down at the Pondera Shooting Sports Complex. There will be 2 pesticide points, & don't worry about a thing, lunch will be provided. To...

Liberty County will  soon be hosting a Master Gardener course. The class will consist of 16 class hours, & the $50 cost will include the book & materials. Topics will include pruning, composting & pest management. The "exact" times, dates & locations will depend on those signing up for the class. For more informatio...

In case you haven't heard, the City of Shelby now has the capability with some additional utility billing software to notify utility users of an EMERGENCY event along with other notification postings to Shelby residents like water shortages, hydrant flushing & irrigation season updates & postings. Don't ...

The Inverness BAR & Supper Club! The 2022 Liberty County Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner's coming up 1 week from this Sunday, on the 30th of January. The FUN will start at 4, with the CJI Band & Nerds of Notes will be performing, & the 2022 Citizen of the Year will be announced. The DEADLI...

Several Shelby residents living in the Marias, Teton & Sheridan Avenue blocks have been without water since Monday apparently because of a broken pipe in the system. Our latest reports indicate the problem WILL BE rectified sometime today. If...

It's all here in breathtaking detail in the book I'll have up for grabs tomorrow (Saturday) morning on Puffman Sports Trivia. The book is John Fraley's "A Woman's Way West; In & Around Glacier National Park 1925 to 1990." The theme centers on Doris Huffine's intriguing life, from her birth in Iowa, in 1901, to her work in Glacier Park in the 1920's, to her death over in the Flathead

MSU Extension Pondera County will be holding their Master Farmer classes beginning on Thursday, the 29th, & running EVERY Thursday through Thursday, February 24th. Don't worry about a thing...you can take the classes online or in person down at the Moose Lodge in Conrad. In...