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It will be fun for the entire family this Friday, December 3, at the 2021 Three Forks Chamber of Commerce Christmas Stroll. The popular annual event will feature a gingerbread contest, indoor and outdoor vendors, a stage with performances, wreath auction, raffle, merchant bingo, pictures with Santa Claus, tree lighting, and a parade. Three Forks Chamber of Commerce Director Deb Niedermeyer is excited for not only the community to come together downtown, but for the opportunity for local... Full story
Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park will again host holiday candlelight tours of the entire developed cave route. This special event allows visitors to see and enjoy the caverns by the warm, festive glow of candle lanterns. Participants must make a reservation prior to their tour. Tours will be offered from Dec. 17 through 19, and from Dec. 21 through 23. The starting times of these tours will vary, depending on park staffing for the day. However, all tours will be during the day, with a portion of the two-hour walking tour being outdoors along...
Just before Thanksgiving, the genuine caring nature of the local community was on display in Three Forks. Members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Bozeman and Belgrade, students and parents from Mt. Ellis Elementary School, and other volunteers came together at the Three Forks Senior Center to hand out food bags, potatoes, magazines, and gas vouchers to area residents. According to Madalina Goia, the Three Forks Outreach Project was part of a project sponsored by the Montana Seventh-Day Ad... Full story
With a new ice rink in town, Three Forks Mayor Sean Gifford is hoping to see more local involvement in hockey. This weekend will serve as an opportunity to showcase the sport in the Gallatin Valley with two of his daughters playing at a home tournament for the Bozeman Amateur Hockey Association U14 Girls team. The tournament scheduled from Friday, December 3 to Sunday, December 5, will feature Utah, Idaho, and Flathead County teams. Gifford is hopeful this tournament can draw attention to the program. "The girls' hockey program can be an...
The Three Forks FFA Chapter had fun with a "Top Turkey Teacher" fundraiser before the Thanksgiving Holiday. According to Chapter Adviser Connie Olsen, feathers were sold to middle school and high school students for $.50 each. Olsen said each middle school and high school teacher had a turkey students could add feathers to, and the one with the most feathers was named "Top Turkey Teacher." The winning teacher was Three Forks Middle School English/History teacher Madalyn Alderman who had 136... Full story
The FFA Creed was written by EM Tiffany 1928. It outlines the FFA's values and beliefs regarding the industry of agriculture, FFA membership, and citizenship and patriotism. Students participating in the Creed Speaking Leadership Development Event. They compete to learn to communicate in a powerful, organized and professional manner and build self-confidence. Rylee Smith placed 4th in the Junior Creed Speaking Contest, at the Agriculture Expo. sponsored by John Deere, in Bozeman. She competed against 40 other middle school students from all... Full story
Under the direction of first-year head coach Jonathan Sutton, the Three Forks High School Speech and Drama has had a strong start to the 2021-22 season. The Three Forks Speech team opened with a second-place finish at a large meet in Billings and first at a recent meet in Red Lodge. “The students have been great to work with, and I see so much potential for this group of students. This year, our speech roster is very strong; I expect to be competitive for the State Speech title in January,” Sutton said. As far as the drama team, Sutton said the...
As a farmer, I know firsthand that good things take time. Every year, I plant my fields with crops like wheat, barley, peas, and saffron, and in July, August, and September, I harvest those crops and reap what I've sown. Writing laws is much the same – and this fall, after a long spring and summer of working with Republicans and Democrats, Montana is set to reap urgently-needed upgrades to our crumbling infrastructure and strong economic growth across our state, thanks to my bipartisan infrastructure bill that was signed into law by the p...
MISSOULA — Leaders of Montana’s K-12 and higher education systems convened on the University of Montana campus Friday to discuss strategic goals and ongoing challenges to improve the quality of education for students across the state. Addressing an in-person meeting of the State Board of Education, Gov. Greg Gianforte gushed about the scenes he’s witnessed firsthand this year in classrooms from Frenchtown to Glendive. He lauded the passage of a new law in the 2021 Legislature that provides incentives for schools to increase starting teach...
Like many organizations in Montana, the state's largest food bank has struggled with labor shortages, making it difficult to get a precise count of people using its services, said Billings Food Bank CEO Sheryle Shandy. Anecdotally, though, she said she's noticed the organization's clientele has shifted since the pandemic's start. Before COVID-19, Billings Food Bank's clients were roughly evenly divided into three age groups: 18 and younger, between 19 and 59, and 60 and older. Since the pandemic's start, the food bank has served more people in...
COL Tracy Schmitt of Three Forks was selected to attend the prestigious U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island from November 2020-November 2021. COL Schmitt is an Army Reservist with duty at Ft. Douglas in Salt Lake City Utah as the 807th Medical Command Deployment Support (MCDS) Command Veterinarian. She was one of 50 of our nation's 200,000 Army reservists to be selected to attend in-residence war college. War college, also known as senior service college, is the Department of... Full story
The Gallatin County Commission voted today to provide a $309,000 subgrant award from the county's COVID-19 relief funds to Greater Gallatin United Way (GGUW) to stabilize and staff the afterschool childcare program known as kidsLINK. Out-of-school-time programming will assist families, businesses and school districts in Gallatin County by rebuilding the local economy and social services that have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. "This is a real, practical way we can help make this program viable," said Gallatin County...
Brenda Lee Kraenzel Sailer, 71, of Bozeman, MT, passed away November 16, 2021, with loving family by her side. Brenda was born in 1950 to Reinhold and Katie Kraenzel of Hebron, ND. She graduated from Hebron High School in 1968, where she met her high school sweetheart and love of her life Dale David Sailer. They married in Oklahoma in 1969 while Dale was stationed in the Army. Brenda attended cosmetology school in Bismark, ND. Brenda had a special affinity to animals and was a lover of horses. She was a member of the Mis' N' Yell side saddle...
After countless hours of hard work during the offseason and the last several weeks in practice, the Three Forks High School wrestling team is ready to hit the mat for their first competition of the season. Coming off a third-place finish at the Class B State Tournament in February, the Wolves will open the 2021-22 season this Friday and Saturday at a tournament in Cascade. “We are excited to get back out there. We are super stoked to be going to Cascade and getting in a tournament situation again,” Head Coach Nye Howey said. During the first fe... Full story
The Three Forks Area Historical Society is having their annual Christmas Party/dinner on December 9, Thursday, at 6:00 PM in the Methodist Annex. Please bring a dish or dessert to share, as the dinner is potluck. Ham will be provided! We are also asking that people bring 3 wrapped white elephant gifts to use for our incredibly fun dice game! AND, please bring a food item that we can donate to the Food Bank. The party is open to EVERYONE! You do NOT have to be a member of the Historical Society to come enjoy the evening. There will be great...
