Articles from the March 21, 2024 edition
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Broadus students excel at Excel and other business skills at State BPA
By Libby Nisley The 2024 Montana BPA State Leadership Conference was held in Billings on March 12-15, with 1,335 students and local chapter advisors from the middle level and secondary level...
Road Department, Volunteer Fire Fighters Train Together
By Broadus Fire Chief Raymond Ragsdale On Wednesday, March 6th, Broadus Fire hosted fire training for the County Road Department and local equipment operators. John Raisler, Dwight Tague, and Eric Har...
Easter Egg Hunts Planned For March 28
The annual Broadus Easter Egg Hunts are planned for Thursday, March 28th. Powder River Manor’s hunt for children aged 0 to Pre-K will take place at 11 AM. If weather permits the hunt will be held outside, so dress accordingly. Manor residents and p...
Hawk Cheer Team Flies High At Cheerfest
By Kate Ruland Cheerfest is an annual cheerleading competition that has been held in Lewistown for the past 20 plus years. This year 25 teams, over 310 contestants merged together for an action...
Steps For Charity - Week 7
Charities Have Local and Global Impact By PR Extension Office “I’ve been crocheting every day, so I end up walking on my treadmill till midnight just to get my steps in, explained Kathy Heidel, Powder River Let’um Walk member. “I won’t walk as muc...
Art Happenings
By Kate Ruland This year has been very busy, and several cool things are/have been happening. March is national youth art month and each year Montana art teachers are asked to send 1-3 pieces of...
Broadus Wrestlers Medal At State AAU
By Jim Kolka The Broadus AAU wrestlers descended on the Metra Park in Billings last Friday for three days of hard wrestling. Altogether for Broadus there were 14 boys and 3 girls out of around 1500 total wrestlers. Some of the brackets were enormous...
School Holds Spelling Bee, Geography Bee
The local Spelling Bee, as well as a first of its kind Geography Bee, were held on March 14th at the high school auditorium. Brooke Escott, Broadus 8th grader, won the event by spelling the word...
Mary Rose Kolka
Mary Rose Kolka was born on Sept. 20, 1936 to Dan and Martha Steadman Gaskill. She grew up on the East Fork of Otter Creek with siblings Ray, Marjorie and Kathleen. Mary Rose attended school at St. La...
Lance Mace Holst
Lance Mace Holst, age 73 of Glendive, Montana passed away on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at his home in Glendive. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM at the Silha Funeral Home in Glendive with Celebrant Heidi Carney...
Library Notes
by Henry A. Malley Memorial Library Librarian Barb Mitchell Happy Spring everyone! Some moisture sure would be nice. Hopefully some Spring rain will come our way. Our reading challenge for March is Read a book by an author you haven’t read before. T...
School Board Conducts March Meeting
Edited March 27th to show updated 2024 school start and end dates. The Broadus School Board Trustees met on Wednesday of last week, due to a scheduling conflict on the normal second Monday of the month meeting date. All board members were in...
Voices from the Past
March 21, 1924 A New Plan for Paying Bounty The Montana Livestock Commission with headquarters in Helena will match dollar for dollar the amounts raised by local stock associations and community organizations for the purpose of exterminating...
