Lewistown News

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.

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.

Things are hopping in Lewiston thanks to jump-roping enthusiast Loraine Day. What started as a way to get local youth involved in a fun community activity has blossomed into an official USA Jump-Rope Team, the Lewistown Hoppers.

AUGARE - Daughter born Friday to Stephanie Augare. BEADLES - Son born Thursday to Kristine and Jeremy Beadles of Great Falls.

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.

The Wild West and the Far East merge this weekend at the historic Grand Union Hotel in Fort Benton, and the results promise to be quite tasty.

Far East meets the Wild West at Fort Benton's Grand Union Hotel on Oct. 31 through Nov.

Main Street, Lewistown, Montana, population 6,000, lined by an old fashioned soda shop, a pharmacy, a barber shop, a movie house, and lots of jewelry stores - it's an American small town.

Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approx. 12:00 p.m. ET Transcript Enlarge Jesse Shapins / Mapping Main Street Main Street in Lewistown looks like a postcard with a movie theater, a barber shop and a diner where old men meet for coffee every morning.

It was a cold day on Oct. 11 in 1969 and 1972 in several communities across northcentral Montana.

MapSpace! Arctic Air Ready to Spill into Large Section of Nation The coldest air of the season will begin seeping southward into the northern Rockies Wednesday before invading the Midwest and parts of the Great Lakes through the end of the The coldest air of the season will begin seeping southward into the northern Rockies Wednesday before invading ...

LEWISTOWN - Marie Alice Grensten, 89, of Lewistown, died of natural causes Monday at New Horizons Assisted Living in Lewistown.

A carjacking in Great Falls on Saturday night left two women shaken, but unhurt.

Brace yourselves. An unusually strong early fall storm is headed Montana's way. 'On Sunday, it's possible we don't get out of the 30s,' said Michael Mercer, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service in Great Falls.

The Fort Benton Chapter of Ducks Unlimited holds its annual fundraiser Saturday at the Agricultural Museum.

Tonight's prep volleyball match between the Great Falls High Bison and the Fergus Eagles will be played in Lewistown.

Dayla Morris wanted to learn a little bit more about interior design. Brinna Boettger wanted to learn Russian.

Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Monica Lindeen will present a series of workshops next week during a consumer and investor education campaign to help Montanans avoid investment and insurance traps, and to protect their money.

What a difference a year and a change from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas make.

LEWISTOWN - If the motto in real estate is location, location, location, then the construction industry's catchphrase must be timing, timing, timing.