Fairfield News

REDMOND, Ore. - Longtime Montana resident Doris Loretta Hansen, 86, died of natural causes Jan.

Teton Medical Center in Choteau has hired a new physician following a two-year recruitment process.

Carolyn Jo Hardin, 70, of Fairfield, a longtime Fairfield area elementary school teacher died Thursday at Peace Hospice after an extended illness.

Although national experts cite statistics showing the economy is gradually improving, the Great Falls Job Service Workforce Center staff has been hopping to help area folks find better jobs.

A fire destroyed Buck's Sporting Goods in downtown Choteau Wednesday night. Firefighters from Choteau, Fairfield and Pendroy battled the blaze that started around 5 p.m. Wednesday, according to Denny Blauer, Teton County undersheriff.

Shasta DePratu and Shane Dean have chosen July 3 for their wedding. She is the daughter of Terry Wilmarth of Power and Bret DePratu of Vaughn.

FAIRFIELD - Mary Ann Tingle, 75, of Fairfield, and previously of Texas, a retired teacher, died of natural causes Thursday at a Choteau nursing home.

The Great Falls Clinic plans to lay off an undisclosed number of employees to right-size the organization after the departure of 34 physicians and advance practice providers over the past year, Clinic officials said Thursday.

Magdalen M. Hager, 87, of Great Falls, formerly of Fairfield, a farm homemaker, died of natural causes Tuesday at a local nursing home.

FAIRFIELD - Shocked and shaken by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Joe Cooper thought the United States military needed to respond to prevent something that horrible from ever happening again.

FAIRFIELD - Shocked and shaken by the 9/11 terrorist at-tacks, Joe Cooper of Fairfield thought the United States military needed to respond to prevent something that horrible from ever happening again.

With 204 votes, challenger Heather McCartney lost her bid against Choteau Mayor John "Jay" Dunckel, who had 502 votes.

FAIRFIELD - Grant Daniel Poole, 6, died of Wilms' tumor Thursday at his home in Fairfield.

Small, noncommercial general aviation airports are a necessity, not a luxury, in small Montana towns.

Several celebrations marked the golden wedding anniversary of Duane and Betty Mellinger of Ulm.

CHOTEAU - Longtime Choteau resident Helen Louise Stenson, 92, died of natural causes Sunday at a Choteau nursing home.

Growing melons in Montana requires great amounts of labor and care - the tender plants must be nurtured through early summer frosts and, once ripe, pass through a chain of people to get from the fields to trucks.

Several painted bison sculptures, including two by the late Joe Halko, went to the highest bidders at West Yellowstone's Painted Buffalo Project Auction on Aug.

FAIRFIELD - World War II Air Force veteran and farmer Herbert Schmidt, 88, of Choteau, and formerly of Fairfield, died Friday at Teton Medical Center of complications from a fall in July, and from the effects of a stroke he suffered in 2002.

BILLINGS - A Billings pharmacist has had his license suspended for the third time in six years - this time for failing to participate in a substance-abuse program.