Sunburst News

CHOTEAU - Dorothea A. Crocker, 89, of Choteau, died of natural causes Tuesday at Teton Medical Center Extended Care in Choteau.

- With 13 votes, Kevin council incumbent Ray Christiaens was ousted by Della Huso-Hunt (38 votes) and Curtis Stene (53 votes.) Running unopposed, Becky Gard was elected mayor with 32 votes. - Longtime Shelby Mayor Larry Bonderud was re-elected with 571 votes. Eugene Haroldson (196 votes,) Don R. Lee (179 votes) and John "Chip" Miller (192 votes) all ran uncontested for town council. - With 74 votes, Gary Iverson was re-elected mayor of Sunburst. Jacque Coolidge (76 votes) and Michael Tobin (91 votes) won two four-year terms on the Sunburst town council and Lorri Housel and Dale Diegel each received 24 votes as write-in candidates for two unexpired two-year terms.

An Oregon man who allegedly violated his parole on rape charges was arrested in Great Falls on Wednesday.

Kalispell state Sen. Greg Barkus is in Seattle to undergo surgery on a broken pelvis at Harborview Medical Center following an Aug.

Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg was released from the hospital yesterday and will continue recovering at home in Billings from injuries sustained in a boat crash on Flathead Lake last week that left one staffer with a serious brain injury.

Posted: Monday, 31 August 2009 5:50PM Rehberg's Staffer Still Hospitalized Julie Rogers One of Rehberg's staffers, Dustin Frost, has not regained consciousness since the wreck.

Dustin Frost, a member of Denny Rehberg's staff who was injured in a boat accident Thursday, attended high school at Sunburst, playing basketball and running track for the Refiners in the late '90s and earlier this decade, according to Tribune archives.

Cool and wet weather conditions continue to delay harvest and crop development in most areas of the state, according to the Montana Crop Weather Report released Monday by the Montana Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

SUNBURST - Martin Sveum, 84, a World War II Army veteran, farmer and rancher of Sunburst, died of natural causes Sunday at a Shelby hospital.

1922 - Oil is discovered in the rich Kevin-Sunburst oil fields. 1924 - L.B. and John O'Neil open a small refinery on 9.3 acres immediately south of Sunburst.

SUNBURST - It took a house explosion in 1955 to discover a 20-acre gasoline leak from a broken underground pipeline here.

HAVRE - Mollie Keller, 95, a retired educator, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Havre care center.

On Tuesday morning, representatives from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway explained for the first time, following months of silence, their reasons for discreetly attempting to purchase properties in Whitefish's railway district.

LEWISTOWN - A Maiden Canyon -area resident faces a felony charge for allowing his 18 "aggressive and vicious" dogs to run loose in the Judith Mountains.