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"It's time to send Donald Trump back to DC." This message was first spoken by Gov. Greg Gianforte, then repeated often Saturday at the annual Cascade County Lincoln/Reagan Dinner at the Heritage Inn. Gianforte is serving his first term as Montana governor, and is seeking re-election to that office. The general election will be in nine months, on Nov. 5, 2024. He highlighted several of his administration's accomplishments during his first three years in office: • Banned TikTok in Montana, b...
The Hettinger, ND Ram Test recently released results of the January 112-day weigh-in, and two Montana rams topped the gain data. Veteran Columbia producers, Luanne Wallenwein of Timber Coulee Columbias in Sunburst, Montana and Loni Blackman of Wolf Creek, Montana, deserve a shout out. Timber Coulee's test consignment, TC 546, posted an ADG of 1.29 lbs/day, the highest rate of gain among all 68 rams on test and all breeds on test, including Columbia, Rambouillet, Targhee, Dorset, and Merino! Loni...
Senior basketball players were recognized Friday night at Cascade High School's North Gym in between the Lady Badgers game against Great Falls Home School and the Badgers game against Valier. As they were individually presented to the fans, they were escorted by their families to the center of the court. The Seniors were Braedyn Johnson, Mackenzie Hauk, Caiden Sekuterski, Gavin Gilham, Martin Bodner, Seth McKamey, Brent Ethridge, and Makaylee South, Mgr. Congratulations Seniors, and "Thanks for...
Mrs. Mary Corder's fifth-grade class made a visit to the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls last week. They were split into two groups of 12 students each and were given a personal tour through the museum, including Russell's home and log cabin studio on Fourth Avenue North. Mark Nelsen drove the bus and Angie Hastings helped chaperone....
Members of the Great Falls Nile No. 3 will be holding their annual luncheon and style show KALIEDOSCOPE OF FASHION on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at the Heritage in Great Falls. The event starts at 11:00 am with a social hour in advance of the luncheon at noon. This will give those attending an early opportunity to review and bid on silent auction items, buy raffle tickets for a gorgeous quilt and gift cards, 50/50 tickets and visit with friends. The style show will start after the luncheon with fashions modeled from many local stores. At the end...
Land Value Property Tax Assistance Program March 1, 2024 March 1 is the deadline for residential property owners to submit an application for the Land Value Property Tax Assistance Program. Homeowners may qualify for this tax assistance if the department’s appraised market value of their land is more than 150 percent of the department’s appraised market value of their home and other improvements on the land. Property Tax Assistance Program April 15, 2024 April 15 is the deadline for real property and mobile homeowners to apply for the Pro...
Augustus Wedsworth, benefactor of the Wedsworth Estate, was born October 1, 1842, in Dupage County, Illinois. He came to Cascade County in 1875 to work in the dairy business at Lepley Creek, selling dairy products to the Army. He was very successful, and in 1881, took up a homestead and later purchased several ranches in Chesnut Valley. He sold his interests in farming and ranching in 1910, when he moved to Cascade. He lived here until his death on January 15, 1915. At the time of his death, he...
Leap Day (February 29) is almost here and it’s time to celebrate this once every 4 years event with our annual Music In Our Schools Month Concert and Turkey Dinner presented by the Cascade Music Department! This is a date change, so be sure and mark your calendars so you won’t miss this wonderful event! The concert and turkey dinner will be Thursday, February 29. The concert, involving the music students in grades 5-12, will be at 7:00 pm in the north gym. The annual turkey dinner will be held in the school cafeteria from 5:00 - 6:30 pm. The...
Art Napping: the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations. The history of art is marked by the theft of works, from Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Gioconda” stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and then recovered years later, or even the famous work “America” by Maurizio Cattelan taken away from Blenheim Palace in 2019, 103 kg of solid gold in the shape of a toilet, never found again. Stolen art is often resold or used by criminals as collateral to secure loans. In 147...
HELENA – Superintendent Arntzen will save Montana taxpayers $259,775 between State Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025 by consolidating the Office of Public Instruction’s (OPI) office buildings from two to one. In November 2022, the Superintendent announced that she was vacating the second of four previously rented office spaces. The 2022 move saved taxpayers $323,488 over three years. In total, the cost savings to taxpayers is $583,263. These savings were made possible through the implementation of an...
HELENA – Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks will implement changes this year to the reservation process for state park sites. The changes will create more opportunities for recreationists to enjoy state parks and comply with legislation passed by the 2023 Legislature. Starting this year, visitors will have up to three months prior to their planned arrival date to make campsite and lodging reservations or purchase tour tickets. This is a change from the six-month booking window in the past. V...
Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) Director Charlie Brereton today announced the agency is now accepting proposals online for a $10 million, one-time grant program aimed at increasing residential bed capacity for congregate community living providers who primarily serve individuals living with a serious mental illness or developmental disability diagnosis. “We’re thrilled to announce that the application portal is now live for the first round of BHSFG funding,” Dir. Brereton said. “We encourage eligible health care provide...
There was a special meeting of the Town Council Wednesday at the Town Hall. On the agenda were two items: Discussion on Madison Well 3 Fix, and Discussion on public hearing for short term rental zoning updates. Public Works Director, Joe Voss, addressed the council and those in attendance explaining the steps he took to insure that the public was protected and that the problem was identified and fixed. It happened on MLK Weekend, and the temperatures had dipped to below 30. Because it was a...
This week we saw the return of “Old Man Winter”, at least for a while. We were getting a little spoiled with all the nice weather we’d been having, but this is Montana, and we were kinda missing our old friend. Tuesday morning, with a dense fog advisory, there was beauty in the way he came in, if you looked for it. And although SNOW is predicted for the rest of the week, he’ll be kind, as temperatures will be mild by Montana’s standards, with sunshine making a comeback by the weekend. Thanks fo...
Congratulations to Alaina Barger, 2023 Graduate of Cascade High School, for being awarded "Senior Goat Showman Grand Champion" recently at the Arizona National Livestock Show....
The Miserable Lives of the Perfect Ones is a book by Fort Benton’s very own Emerson Giese. This book was published in December 2022 when Giese was 18. This book is about 4 main characters, not pointed at anyone in the Fort Benton school or surrounding schools. Emerson Giese was a high school student at Fort Benton high school. She was born on September 23, 2004 which made her 18 when she published the book. This book was her debut novel, when she was not reading or writing, she was busy attending school, or participating in sports and other ext...
There is no greater symbol of a country’s determination to defend its freedom than a warship. USS Nevada was named after the 36th state. Launched in 1914, Nevada was a leap forward in dreadnought technology. Every subsequent US battleship included triple gun turrets, oil in place of coal for fuel, geared steam turbines for greater range, and the “all or nothing” armor principle. These features made Nevada, alongside sister ship Oklahoma, the first US Navy “standard-type” battleships. Nevada’s construction was authorized by an Act of Congress...
A working meeting regarding an ordinance to update Cascade’s code was held on Monday, February 5, at Cascade Town Hall. In attendance were Ralph Schnider, Jodie Campbell, Kristin Riley, Becca Wood, and Skip Reissing, as well as this reporter. The matters discussed were in regard to title 12 of the official code of the town of Cascade. Title 12 involves streets, sidewalks, trees, and shrubbery. The meeting largely consisted of proposals to update the language of certain statements in title 12 i...
This past weekend the Friends of the Black & Gold hosted their third Black & Gold Ball fundraising event where the community headed to tropics and funds were raised for a good cause. Wedsworth Hall was transformed with colorful lights, tiki masks and totem poles for a Luau Beach Party to remember. The community flooded the festive atmosphere with Hawaiian prints and colorful leis, there was even a flamingo, a wet-suit and a coconut bra in the crowd! Everyone mingled, enjoyed Luau-style dinner...
Unable to recruit a science teacher for the upcoming semester, Cascade Public Schools has partnered with the Montana Digital Academy (MTDA), Montana's public state virtual school, to provide teacher services and curriculum to assist with these classes for the semester. MTDA courses are delivered via the web, and students can access them whenever and wherever they want. Content is taught by qualified Montana-licensed instructors and aligned to state educational standards. A question and answer...
There's nothing like attending a Badger sporting event in person! Friday night saw our #1 ranked Lady Badgers and our #1 ranked Cascade Badgers defend against 10C District rivals Simms Tigers. Just like the "big boys", we too had our local celebrity broadcasters doing the play-by-play on site. And talk about our half-time program; our mini-cheerleader routine rivaled that of any Super Bowl halftime show, not to mention all the excitement an noise generated by our cheering squad at every game....
Food plays an integral, but routine part in our day-to-day lives and we don’t think much about it except what to eat at our next meal or- how about that snack. However, in the past, food was once thought of as noble and in a different aspect of what we might think of today. Onions. We rarely consider them as anything more than culinary devices, items to be sliced, diced, and tossed into a hot pan to serve as an aromatic backbone of a savory dish. Today, you would probably think of sending or bringing flowers to a funeral. Things were done a m...
Happy 2024 Everybody! This is a bit overdue but it appears that I am a bit overdue on most things lately. Just not my library books. HA! Anyway... The Cascade Women’s Club would like to take this time to thank everyone and I mean EVERYONE for the success of our Craft Fair in November. We want to thank the vendors. Without you, there is no craft fair. Your hard work and talents get people on the roads and headed to Cascade. We appreciate what you bring to the table… Literally. Our table sales were the most on record and the feedback we got fro...
Composed of women of Montana and dedicated to perpetuating the memory of the invaluable contribution made by women toward the development of Montana, the Montana Cowgirls Association met for its 64th Annual Convention this past Saturday, Jan. 20th, at the Holiday Inn, 400 10th Ave. So. in Great Falls. The Association records for posterity the biographies of individuals so that they will not be forgotten with the passing of time, recording and keeping alive the code of honor of the Old West, and...
