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Does one recall that big prairie fire southwest of Scobey (northeast of Lustre) on Wednesday, April 29, 2026? Smoke could be seen from a very large radius from all directions. Around 612 acres burned. The Daniels County Fire Department, based in Scobey, had all of its fire trucks responding. Members of that department put in close to an 8-hour shift that day!

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The first microwave oven wasn’t anything like what sits on a kitchen counter today. When the original “Radarange” hit the market in 1947, it stood nearly six feet tall, weighed in around 750 pounds and carried a price tag of about $5,000 — closer to...