Statewide News

BUT...there's an OFFICIAL AARP "Smart Driver" course scheduled for this coming Monday. The course will be conducted over in Chester at the Liberty County Senior Center Monday afternoon from 1 until 5. Hope you all have a chance to take advantage of this worthwhile & po…

There will be a Medical Benefit for Bynum rancher & good neighbor Marvin Baker. Marvin was seriously injured by a cow, & the medical benefit's TONIGHT (Friday) down at the Stage Stop Inn in Choteau. The doors will open at 4 o'clock this afternoon with the dinner will gettin…

Our Shelby Fire Department will be holding their infamous Annual Fish Fry tomorrow (Friday) night & we're all welcome to come on down! The fish will be frying & on the platters from 5 until 7 tomorrow evening. I submit that this is one of the FUNNEST events of the year in Shelby…

St. Luke's Lutheran Church here in Shelby will be holding their Easter Breakfast THIS Sunday morning from 8 until 1, & you're invited! There'll be a "free will" donation on Easter Sunday morning to benefit our Montana Flood Relief. This Sunday's weather …

Our Toole County Mental Health Advisory Board will be meeting tomorrow (Thursday) up at the Marias Heritage Center. Tomorrow's meeting's at noon in the private dining room at the Heritage. "Some" of the current business is related to crisis intervention...

The "small fry" in our Golden Triangle will have some ample opportunities to hunt up some Easter eggs THIS Saturday. Here in Shelby, the Shelby First Baptist Church will be having their 6th Annual Easter Egg Hunt over at Aronow Park from 11 o'clock to 1...

There will be a couple of them this evening (Tuesday) when I read & share more Montana History up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. We're close to concluding our current tome, "Stump Town to Ski Town: the Story of Whitefish, Montana," & Chapter 13 i…

The National Weather Service will be conducting a "Skywarn Spotter" training class THIS Thursday night. The course will be held over at the Marias Medical Center from 6:30 until 8:30 on Thursday evening. Don't worry about a thing... simply enter through the emergency room door…

There'll be a Blood Drive this week, & it's tomorrow (Tuesday) up in the North Country. The "drive" will be at the Sunburst Methodist Church from noon until 5 tomorrow afternoon. WOW! We're smack dab into the spring/summer/outdoor/vacation season, & t…

The Triangle Squares Quilt Guild will be meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) evening over at our Shelby Senior Center. The "meeting" time will be at 6:30, but as the old Canned Heat song says, "Work Together"...there'll be a special "Work" meeting at…

It's a WILD game stew dinner tomorrow (Saturday) up in the North Country. American Legion Border Post 73's having their annual Wild Game Stew Dinner tomorrow night at the Sweetgrass Legion Hall, & everyone's invited up. The dinner will be on the platters starting around 6, but…

Our Toole County Library has been CELEBRATING National Library Week all this week, & there's even more FUN until it's done on tomorrow (Saturday.) If you haven't had the opportunity to stop by the library this week, there's still time today & tomorrow to stop in &…