Grass Range News

Montana received light to moderate moisture for the month ending Jan. 31, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Montana Field Office, Feb.

ROUNDUP - Carl Vernon Petersen, 90, a longtime Mosby and Winnett area rancher, died of natural causes Monday at a Roundup hospital.

By The Associated Press BOYS Basketball Billings Senior 76, Miles City 20 Ekalaka 64, Rosebud 23 Whitehall 49, Townsend 39 Wibaux 64, Baker 62 GIRLS BASKETBALL Baker 42, Wibaux 29 Belt 67, Augusta 12 Circle 48, Bainville 31 Lima 31, Leadore, Idaho 19 Melstone 30, Jordan 25 Moore-Judith Gap 66, Winnett-Grass Range 58 Park City 50, Bridger 46 ...

Voters ousted two Craig Water and Sewer District Board incumbents who did not support a special resort tax to pay for the town's overburdened sewer system.

The National Weather Service in Great Falls has issued a High Wind warning, which is in effect until 5 p.m. this afternoon.

In Ward 1, Jack H. Phillips got 360 votes to serve the remaining two years of his appointed term; Frank Gremaux earned 370 votes to win a four-year term for Ward 1 and Elizabeth Anne Putnam had 236 votes to win the Ward 3 seat.

HELENA - Mons Teigen, 87, a leader in state agriculture and a former executive of the Montana Stockgrowers Association, died of natural causes Saturday in Helena.

MALTA - Newton E. Cummings, 96, a retired house mover and rural mail carrier who enjoyed music and playing the violin, died of natural causes Wednesday at the Hi-Line Retirement Center.

It's easy to lose track of the date at the tiny cabin that serves as the White Grass Ranger Station in Grand Teton National Park.

Montana Lottery officials say five people have recently claimed major prizes from lottery games and scratch tickets.

Matt Rinella, faculty in Animal and Range Science at Montana State University and an ecologist at the Fort Keogh Agricultural Experiment Station in Miles City, recently published the results of a 16-year study in the journal Ecological Applications .

A woman who served coordinated missions on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation has died as a result of injuries received in a June 22 vehicle rollover near Grass Range.

Jody Campbell would like to fix the situation his wife, Suellyn, is in, but he also believes that a majority of that work lies in God's hands.

BILLINGS - Racey and Jared Collins were moving from Washington to Maine when their car went off the road and crashed in Musselshell County on the Fourth of July.