Articles from the July 21, 2022 edition
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EMTs Train On Valuable Skills
Eight Emergency Medical Technicians from the Powder River First Responders attended a class on Friday and Saturday taught by Ryan Pitts of Logan Health. Pitts is also the Assistant Professor of Emerge...
New Deputy On Duty At Sheriff's Department
A new deputy has donned the badge at the Powder River County Sheriff's Department. Tomasa Pacheco comes to the department after 31 years in the nursing field, having first worked in Broadus as a...
Incidents Keep First Responders Busy
A wreck and several small fires kept local emergency personnel busy over the past week. A wreck involving a car and semi near mile marker 119 on Highway 212, approximately 10.5 miles east of Hammond resulted in one death, and one person transported...
TRECO Holds Annual Meeting
TRECO held their 73rd annual meeting last Saturday in Broadus at the Community Center. The meeting was preceded by a meal served to well over 100 TRECO members, featuring chicken and beef prepared by...
Attention Boaters
By Liz Riter Zebra mussels have recently been found in Pactola Lake, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The zebra mussel is considered an aquatic invasive species in Montana, and watercraft...
Guidebook For Lower Yellowstone River Available Soon
Courtesy MT FWP HELENA – Boaters and other visitors will soon have a new resource when venturing out on the lower Yellowstone River corridor this year. Starting this week, the “Lower Yellowstone River Guide” will be available for free at FWP offices...
Bob Talcott
Louie Robert "Bob" Talcott, Jr. (84) passed away at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, on July 12, 2022. He was born on April 24, 1938, in Trinidad, CO, to Marjory (Jones) and Louie Robert Talcott, Sr. He...
Shannon Jablonski
Shannon T. (Kirley) Jablonski passed away peacefully at home April 6, 2022 at the age of 81 years young. Shannon is preceded in death by her husband, Frank T. Jablonski Jr, her mother, Leona Kirley,...
COVID-19 Update
Submitted by PR County Health Nurse Darlynn Williams Remember “flatten the curve”? We still need to “flatten the waves.” Much has changed since this rallying cry of Spring 2020, but keeping the infamous reproductive rate (or “R-value”) down is still...
Voices From The Past
July 21, 1922 Law Compels the Repair of Fences Complaints have been made from many parts of the county that barbed wire fences are being neglected, wires are broken and down, and animals are being cut up by the wire. The Montana Code provides, in...
Test Annual Forages for Nitrates
By PR Extension Office As annual forages are being cut for hay, it is important to test for nitrate levels, according to Powder River Extension Agent Mary Rumph. “This is a year when I wouldn’t expect nitrate levels in cereal grains to be high...
Births - Bearett Lyle Holum
Bearett Lyle Holum was born June 30th in Rapid City, SD, to his mother Neddie Hayes and his father is Kyle Holum, joining his very excited big sister Morgan Hayes. Bearett weighed 6lbs 13oz, and...
