Politics

It's like ol' Bob Dylan said! There are changes coming to the Head Start program. Head Start will be holding a meeting tonight (Wednesday) at North Star School in Rudyard at 6:30 SHARP. With those changes coming, Head Start requests your feedback this evening on how best to implement those changes & STILL meet the needs of the community. Fo...

Three hots & a cot...I'm not blogging about the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby, but rather the book we'll begin reading tonight (Tuesday) during Montana History at the Heritage. The book is Ellen Baumler's "Dark Spaces: Montana's Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge" from the University of New Mexico Press. So...

It's MONDAY(!) & that means Puffman Musical Trivia Day this afternoon at 4:30. I'll be giving away the hardback book, "The Failure of Counterinsurgency; Why Hearts and Minds Are Seldom Won." The book's author, Ivan Eland, PhD, is director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California. Previo...

Our friend, "Tall" Todd, the custom cutter fellow who works up here in the Golden Triangle every harvest season, has moved on to Oklahoma & is already harvesting! Todd claims that 67% of Oklahoma will NOT be harvested this year. Todd & his crew are working on "Lonesome" Larry Goyer's farm & what they have harvested is running around 18 bushels, compared with 12 to 1

Montana (Great Falls) author, Jamie Ford, will be speaking tomorrow (Thursday) night down in Conrad. Ford is the author of "Songs Of Willow Frost" which has been receiving rave reviews! Ford's presentation is open to everyone & it gets underway tomorrow night at 7 at the Conrad Public Library. Ch...

We'll be reading the final pages of Dale Sheldon's "Who Lost" tonight (Tuesday) during Montana History this evening up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. What to read next? I'm looking at one of 3 neat books: (1) "The Good Times Are All Gone Now; Life, Death, and Rebirth In An Idaho Mining Town" by Julie Whitesel Weston, (2) "Dark Spaces; Montana's Historic Peni

"Tall" Todd, the custom harvest guy reports from Texas that they are fighting wet grain, low bushels, & test weights from 56.8 to 59.8 lbs. The harvest has been slow due to recent rain from 1.5 to 2 inches. Yields are from 12 to 15 bushels & the elevators are testing for protein...not p...

Longtime Conrad resident, contest winner, & world famous author, Dale "Who Lost" Sheldon. will be doing a presentation AND program this evening (Friday) at 6 o'clock SHARP up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. We've all been enjoying Dale's 1st book, "Who Lost" (the autobiography of a blind man with great vision) during Montana History Tuesday evenings at the Her

There will be a seminar entitled "Meth & How It Affects Our Work" tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at Norley Hall in Conrad. Tomorrow morning's seminar will run from 9 until noon & you can RSVP NOW at 278 3342. The "Meth & How It Affects Our Work" is being sponsored by Hi-Line Help For Abused Spouses & the Pondera County Sheriff's office. Meth kills! Ho...

Entertainment is the "KEY WORD" this week up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. There's a Community Card Party scheduled for 1:30 this afternoon (Monday, Memorial Day) & we're all (the community) invited to stop by & play today. Tomorr...

Memorial Day Services are scheduled for tomorrow (Sunday) morning up in the North Country. A "Meet & Greet" is set to start at 9 o'clock SHARP Sunday morning at the Sweetgrass American Legion Hall. Dedications will follow the Meet & Greet at 10 o'clock, then it's on to the Sweetgrass & Sunburst cemeteries concluding with a visit to the Sunburst Monument at City Hall. Memorial

"Tall" Todd, the custom harvester guy, reports that he moved 2 machines to Leoti, Kansas earlier this month & is on his way south to Grant, Nebraska with 2 more machines, crew trailers & the rest of the harvest equipment. Earlier, they had taken the tractor & grain cart to the Harrold/Vernon, Texas area, plus semi's & grain trailers. Todd says on t...