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

Another positive step for Ike’s Fishing Pond and Walking Trail in Culbertson took place last week when First Community Bank donated $5,000 to the project. Kenneth Forbregd, volunteer project manager, estimates about $90,000 has been raised including a $58,000 grant from the Montana Department of Tourism and a $12,000 grant from the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. He noted that the

Roosevelt Medical Center recently hired Quick Steel of Billings to stabilize the west hall of the facility to stop it from further settling. In all, a total of 32 concrete piers were poured to depths ranging from 21 to 119 feet. The piers will secure the foundation, which will help stop the shifting that can create cracks in sheet-rock and damage plumbing systems. The company performed the same