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From our “In Case You Missed It Department” the Fort Peck Dam recently celebrated its 80th anniversary. The 7-year project was completed in October 1940. The dam, which provides great fishing, boating, water skiing, jet skiing and swimming opportunities to residents of northeastern Montan...

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Things, Ideas & People . . . They apparently know their stocks at Westby High School says the December 31 issue of the Sheridan County News. Sponsored by the Montana Council On Economic Education, the school in the extreme northeast corner of Montana has once again won the Stock Market Ga...

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The Baylor community located south of Opheim, Montana once had a newspaper called the Baylor World. Fred Woodward was the Editor of the weekly newspaper, which newspaperman Joseph Whetstone of Glentana helped establish in 1915. Mrs. H.O. Baylor and Frank Ruffcorn were the reporter...

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Do you know Plentywood High School has a student newspaper called The Wildcat Wire? Did you also know The Wildcat Wire’s advisor is Mrs. Kimberly (nee: Rasmussen) Olson, the school’s English teacher and a 2013 graduate of Scobey High School? Did you know she is also the advisor of the PHS Seni...

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In one of the Montana weekly newspapers the Leader swaps issues with every week, one asked this question of four people: What are you most grateful for this Thanksgiving? One young woman answered: “I am thankful for my family and my two beautiful children, and for unlimited access to a liquor stor...

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The Leader arrives in Billings every Thursday morning about 10 a.m. The newspaper often gets to our subscribers in Billings up to 3 and sometimes 4 weeks later! It’s a long haul across town, particularly in the 59102 zipcode, where three phone calls came in this week that they still had not rece...

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While looking through the Tuesday, November 17, 2020 edition of the Billings Gazette daily newspaper around 10 a.m. a headline brought sadness upon upon me: Woman, dog struck and killed by train on Hi-Line. On Saturday, November 14, around 4:45 p.m. a 41-year-old woman did not see nor hear an appro...

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Wearing masks has been a bone of contention on how they do or don’t work. In our opinion they provide one protective measure, lowering your percentages of contracting diseases, not the end all solution. Hundreds and maybe thousands of people die from hypothermia each year. It’s generally ...

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The string of container-carrying railcars and grain railcars from Plentywood to the west edge of Flaxville increased and then decreased. At the end of August 2020 the big string of cars started five miles west of Plentywood but then those five miles were filled with more grain cars, right...

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Weather is good. It gives us something to talk about besides COVID-19. Working in the yard on Sunday we noticed the change of the sounds in the country (as we live on the edge of Scobey). One big thing we noticed besides having lovely sunshine and nicer weather on Sunday, was that the buzzing of two...