Malta News

Continuing north from the Grassrange turn off, we drive to Malta, Montana, and then turning right onto US 2, we drive east towards Glasgow, Montana.

STANFORD - Though now a successful sculptor, Steve Lillegard struggled early in his career.

MALTA - Jerry E. Pugh, 77, of Malta, an Army veteran and retired teacher, died of natural causes Tuesday at Peace Hospice in Great Falls.

MALTA - Mary E. Humes, 93, a retired schoolteacher and former Big Sandy resident, died of bone cancer Monday at the Country Home in Malta.

HINSDALE - Daisy Ann Ball, 90, of Hinsdale, who was active in the Catholic Church and enjoyed playing cards, dancing and being with family, died of natural causes Saturday at a Malta retirement home.

DODSON - Walter C. "Bud" Kienenberger Jr., 82, of Dodson, a cowboy and truck driver, died of natural causes Friday at a Malta hospital.

The trial of Kalispell state Sen. Greg Barkus for three felony charges stemming from a Flathead Lake boat crash is scheduled for April 5, 2010 - but that's if the trial happens at all.

State wildlife officials say two boys from Saco and another from Glasgow have pleaded guilty to 20 misdemeanor charges for poaching deer and antelope in Phillips and Valley counties.

A head-on collision that killed a Ten Sleep couple last year is prompting a legal challenge to a state law that says bar owners can't be held responsible for the actions of intoxicated patrons.

Congressman Denny Rehberg's state director has returned to work full-time after a long recovery from an August boat crash that left him with a severe head injury.

MALTA - Phyllis "Rose" Steward, 53, a homemaker and nursing assistant who enjoyed fishing and being outdoors, died Sunday in a car crash near Saco.

SACO - Larry Dean Pippin, 64, a rancher and Army veteran who enjoyed hunting, genealogy and spending time entertaining his grandchildren, died of natural causes Sunday in Saco.

Jones beat out current mayor Byron Ereaux, who received 259 votes as a write-in candidate, in the Republican primary.

Hinsdale native Ernest 'Ernie' Grant, 87, of Great Falls, a former janitor at the Phillips County Courthouse in Malta, died of natural causes Sunday at a local care facility.

MALTA - Thomas Edward "Tom" Schoonen, 88, a World War II Army Air Corps veteran and retired heavy equipment operator, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta hospital.

SACO - James M. Caves, 79, of Saco, an Army veteran and rancher, died of natural causes Thursday at the Phillips County Hospital.

DODSON - Frank Ereaux, 81, died of natural causes Saturday at a Malta hospital. His funeral is 3:30 p.m. today at Dodson High School, with burial in Beaver Creek Long Knife Ereaux Cemetery on Beaver Creek.

SACO - Ovidia A. Haynes, 86, a homemaker and lifelong Phillips County resident, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta hospital.

SACO - Adeline Hammond, 92, a lifelong Saco resident who enjoyed animals and pets, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta medical facility.

HAVRE - Ranching interests sharply criticized a private grassland preserve in northeastern Montana as well as a new federal initiative in which new free-roaming bison herds could be established in the West.