The Froid/Lake Red Hawks are anxious to start playoff football season as they will host Broadview/Lavina at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24. “We’re feeling pretty good,” Froid/Lake coach Michael Reiter said. “We’re pretty healed up. The bye week helped a lot.” As the top seed from the East, the Red Hawks will play home throughout the playoffs. “As far as the team goes, we aren’t

The Montana High School Association announced last week that practices for high school basketball squads will begin a few weeks later that planned with the hope of reducing the potential amount of COVID cases. Instead of starting practice on Nov. 19, practices can’t start now until Dec. 7. Wrestling also won’t be allowed to have practices until Dec. 7. Competitions can first begin the first

Eastern Montana’s sugar beet harvest features great sugar content and excellent weather this year. Overall, Sidney Sugars’ agricultural manager Duane Peters reports that the sugar content percentage is 18.9 percent. Normally, the mark is about 17 percent. “It’s almost two full points higher,” Peters said of the sugar content. “We’re very happy with it.” Tonnage is down

A congressional hearing to discuss Amtrak’s reduction of services has been postponed to at least Monday, Oct. 19, according to the office of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. Roy Loewenstein, press secretary for Tester, said the hearing was moved because of the decision to recess the Senate because of COVID concerns. He noted that Tester hopes to reschedule the hearing as soon as safely possible.

The Bainville Town Council meeting was hijacked for over an hour by dog ordinance language, Monday, Oct. 12. Attendance at the meeting was made possible via GoToMeeting. After approving minutes dated Sept. 14, councilpersons discussed several web complaints about aggressive dogs. The dogs were not identified, nor were their owners or the exact nature of the complaints, but the council discussed

A safety measure at a railroad crossing moved forward when Roosevelt County commissioners approved an agreement with BNSF during a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 5. The railroad crossing being addressed is on Road 1013. The site is where Richland County farmer Rocky Norby was killed when an Amtrak train struck his tractor on May 29. Commissioner Gordern Oelkers explained that originally the thought