Belt News

This is the weekend where professional cowboys can really be riding high. Or lying low.

A young bull moose on the loose in Great Falls since Saturday was captured Monday evening.

A grass runway is being carved across a high-elevation meadow near the south fork of the Judith River, giving pilots access to recreational opportunities on public forest land east of the Rocky Mountains for the first time.

AUGUSTA - When a premier two-legged competitor draws a prime four-legged athlete in the rodeo arena, fans expect fireworks.

On a recent day in June, Lou Loader leaned over a sluice box full of gravel. Wearing rubberized gloves, tweezers in hand, Loader's quarry revealed itself amongst the dull stone as sparkles of deep blue - sapphires.

The Montana Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Great Falls man who's convicted of murdering a 9-year-old girl in the late 1980's. Wilfred "Bill" Morrisey, 67, was convicted in November 2005 and was sentenced to life in prison for killing Dolana Clark.

With fire season approaching, fire managers in the Jefferson Division of the Lewis and Clark National Forest now have the choice, for the first time, of immediately attacking fires or managing for resource benefits - or both.

The Lewis and Clark National Forest has prepared a new wildland fire response plan to guide the management of fires in its Jefferson Division.

Belt is full of bull this weekend. The Dusty Gliko Bullriding Challenge begins at 7 tonight and Saturday at the Belt Rodeo Grounds.

W.F. 'Bud' Heath, 77, of Raynesford, an Air Force veteran, died Wednesday in Great Falls after a long illness.

The earliest birthday Helen Jordan remembers was when she turned 6. Living in Neihart at the time, the basement of her family's apartment building was dirt, making it the perfect place to play.

Rie Munoz framed signed/numbered prints. They are the artist's works from the 1980's. Self Portrait 312/750 Waiting For The Ferry 429/750 Sandhill Cranes 169/750. All three prints are in excellent condition.

Great Falls City Attorney David Gliko knows municipal law. He also knows when it's time to retire - July 31, to be exact.

Kori Johnson and Joseph Kerkes plan to be married Aug. 8. Parents of the couple are Dale and Vickie Johnson of Belt, and Randy and Nanc Kerkes of Sand Coulee.

The Cascade 4-H Foundation is the little engine that keeps chugging along, supplementing various aspects of the county 4-H program and allowing it to keep its fees low.

Remember the terrible four-vehicle accident on Montana Highway 82 last October that set a tractor-trailer hauling apples on fire? Amber King and her two children survived that crash, and will be recognized tomorrow with a safety award.

President Barack Obama is looking to strip millions of dollars from projects designed to clean up abandoned mines in Montana.

When Dave and Vonnie Brown of Great Falls decided to build a shelter belt around their home, they called the County Extension office and applied for a Shelter Belt Planning Kit.

Students from Belt schools got the opportunity to take a field trip Monday afternoon and watch the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis - and they didn't even have to leave Cascade County.

A field trip to NASA may not be in the budget for local students, but that doesn't mean NASA can't come to Montana - via videoconference.