Dec282018
Dear Editor,
Great article in the 12-14-18 issue of the YCN about horse racing. We were all excited about it because of horse racing and Indian relay racing. After the Indian relays had to go elsewhere, twenty-two teams went to Seattle. Imagine how much money went with them. Who decided we don’t want racing here? Why don’t you ask us what we, the community, want?
I was walking at the Metra the other day and they started tearing read more
Dec282018
The Lockwood Water and Sewer District (LWSD) is finalizing plans to build a second bulk water service site.
The site will be at the corner of Johnson Lane and Prairie Drive. The LWSD board has agreed to purchase the property — about 1.2 acres for $11,400. It was appraised by S. M. Repac for $9,500 per acre.
Morrison Maierle will design the facility. Jill Cook of Morrison Maierle said that the County Public Works Department has already read more
Dec282018
Carl Wolf, The Outdoors Section
Boss Jonathan took me out to the wood shed other day. Quite a talk. Long discussion about outdoors versus politics, freedom of speech, prejudice and fear that comes with speaking out. I came away chastened and thoughtful. Still not clear why folks want to support a man who obviously does not deserve it. Find it confusing to be denigrated for pointing out the truth and getting whipsawed for it, but people still support a guy who constantly skips using it. I sincerely hope we can get past this period of megalomania and back to the respect our country deserves.
Speaking of claws check out this read more
Dec222018
Dear Editor,
I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the sponsors and businesses that provided food, snacks, drinks and wonderful prizes for the Worden and Huntley strolls. Just the amount of time read more
Dec222018
Dear Editor,
We, the leaders of American Legion Custer Post 111, feel we have a responsibility to provide the actual sequence of events and correct the anti-legion tirade presented by Carl Wolf in his December 14, 2018 “The Outdoors” column and relate more properly how the American Legion Custer Post 111 reached its decision to close read more
Dec212018
HUNTLEY – Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative’s (YVEC) members are getting an early Christmas gift in the form of a rebate on their December billing statement. The rebate amount will be approximately half of one billing cycle but will vary based on the members utility usage for 2018. This rebate is only for December and will not be applied to any previous month statements. Any rebate amounts that are ten dollars or less will be allocated to the members capital credit file.
Jennifer Sayler, the director of marketing for YVEC, says there isn’t read more
Dec192018
Melody Kathryn Houston
Melody Kathryn Houston, 54, passed away November 24, 2018 in Salt Lake City, UT surrounded by her family. She was born in Santa Clara, CA on New Year’s Eve 1963; she was the oldest of 5 children.
Melody was a sassy, spunky soul who loved working with the public and spending time with family. She was born in California, moved to North Carolina, and then to Texas to start a family. Melody then moved to Montana to raise her family. She was a wonderful mother to her 3 children who were her world. She enjoyed camping, cooking, watching the Food Network, and shopping.
She gave read more
Dec172018
2018 Huntley Christmas Stroll winners
Here is a list of all the 2018 Huntley Christmas Stroll winners. Please pick up your prizes at the Yellowstone County News office or call Jonathan at 406-672-5941 to pick up after hours if needed. Congrats to the winners and thank you to all the businesses and local people who donated to make the Huntley Christmas Stroll a Success.
A special Thank you also goes out to Andrea Drinkwalter and Becky Robison for all their help with the Huntley Christmas Stroll. read more
Dec172018
Dear Editor,
Just wanted to put my two cents in about the letter to the editor from Dave Malek from Billings. I would love to personal thank him for his remarks. They are right on. The outdoor section should not be so political and critical of our President. I don’t read Carl’s read more
Dec162018
Dear Editor,
I got a notice with a bill saying the business was going to prepay pumps due to drive offs. The night of the Worden Christmas Stroll, I pulled up to the gas station as a pick-up drives off and an employee runs out and tries to chase them down. Some people may think they are getting even with the big oil companies, but it only read more
Dec152018
Dear Editor,
I’d like to give a much overdue shout out of appreciation to Yellowstone County News for their “YCN Snap Shot” photo contest of the year! On behalf of myself and all those who took the opportunity to share their enjoyment of read more
Dec102018
Michael Charles Dandrea
Michael (Mike) Charles Dandrea, 83, died peacefully at his home in Billings on Monday, December 3, 2018, after a long fight with Parkinson’s Disease.
Mike was born in Spokane, Washington on November 25, 1935, to Michael and Lucie Dandrea.
Mike met Claudia Paulson at the ice skating rink while they were in high school after he dated her friend. He joined the army after high school and was stationed in Alaska. He asked Claudia to write to him. In 1955, while home on leave, he asked Claudia to marry him. The next time he was on leave, he decided they should get married right away so they were married read more
Dec72018
Dear Editor,
Kerns election reflection may need some reflection. He talks of the land of opportunity, more like opportunist. Some one once said “A sucker is born every day”. We have more scam/ con artist and manipulators than ever. During the construction of Fort Peck, the workers could use the scraps of lumber to build their homes. Some one decided they could pick out the larger pieces and sell them to fellow workers. After that all pieces were to be burned.
Kerns talks about God, Family and Country but actions and example say read more
Nov302018
Leroy M. Jones was born on March 4, 1939 in Nogales, Arizona. He lived in the Worden area since 2007. He passed away on November 27, 2018 of collapsed lungs. Leroy is survived by his wife, of 23 years, Deanna (Dee) Jones and three step-daughters, Cheri (Biehle) Allen of Indiana; K-Fawn (Biehle) of Branum, Georgia; Sonja (Biehle) Sullivan of Shepherd, Montana.
Leroy was read more
Nov272018
Dear Editor
During the election “access to public lands” was an issue. My question is Who and for what purpose? Yes I am for public hiking, camping, fishing and hunting, even grazing and logging permits. I am not for mud bogging, four wheeling, vandalism and destruction I have seen. “Pack it in Pack it out”, seems to apply only to those who can read or bother to read. I am definitely not for multi national corporations exploiting the resources and leaving the mess for others to clean up.
This is the only rock flying around in space that has life as we know it. We need read more
Nov272018
Dear Editor;
After the whirl of the holiday, great food, golfing, beautiful family and friends catching up on old family pictures, another Cats win, I was finally able to sit down to enjoy my copy of YCN. I enjoyed some good and uplifting stories. However, I was really disappointed to read Carl’s Nov 23 article once again denigrating OUR President. I was particularly struck by his “not wanting to continue dividing us” and then in the same breath “divided” us by starting right into the name calling – calling OUR President an immature idiot. How is that not dividing us? Carl. I know you said you weren’t a democrat (NAD) but you and the democrats have mastered the art of dividing this country into rich vs poor, black/brown vs white, red vs blue etc. Your democrats have called him, and by extension all GOP/conservatives, racists, bigots, Nazi’s, mysoganists, homophobes, terrorists not to mention those Hollywood types calling our President read more
Nov262018
Dear Editor:
In just the first hours in law school a student is told that his goal in law school is to learn to think like a lawyer. Another thing learned early on in law school is that there are no wrong answers but there are simply good arguments to prove or disprove a given point. Interestingly the major premises of these arguments never contain what could be considered an absolute truth. I understood that this lawyer that I was supposed to think like was certainly not a person like say a Thomas Aquinas. It did not take me long to understand that this lawyer was really the ultimate relativistic thinker. It was then I realized that law school was not really an academy of sophisticated learning but merely a trade school specialized in training clever relativistic thinkers. After I figured that out I was able to play their game competently and I actually graduated with distinction.
How did law school become this hot bed of relativism? I believe the answer to this can be found in the relationship between read more
Nov232018
Erika Godfrey
Dear diary, today I started a new chapter.
On November 20, 2018, Erika Nickole Kelly left her earthly body surrounded by the love of her family.
Many of us are familiar with Ooka’s witty “Dear Diary” posts on Facebook. They made us laugh and smile in situations that would make other people lose hope. Whether you knew Erika from her work at the hospital, were in her circle of “peeps”, or were in her circle of caregivers, most are blown away by her selfless generosity, unbreakable spirit, unwavering hope and eclectic sense of humor.
Erika busted into read more
Nov192018
Dear Editor:
During the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Montana, I heard general Flynn, an Obama-era officer, enthusiastically endorsing the one I call the flying sergeant, Troy Downing for U.S. Senate, on a Billings radio station.
I may have promoted him by calling him a sergeant. As one who flew in combat in Vietnam, I can assure you that this Downing guy did not hold the aeronautical rating of pilot in the U.S. Air Force. No matter what civilian pilot licenses or ratings you hold, you cannot become a pilot in the U.S Air Force unless you attend Air Force pilot training. By entering the Air Force at age 35, Downing was way too old to enter pilot training in the Air Force.
His political ads were purposely meant to mislead the viewer about read more
Nov172018
David James McSherry
David James McSherry, was born on October 5, 1961 to Judy and Fred McSherry in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After a short illness, he left this world for the next one on November 15, 2018. He was 57 years old.
Throughout his entire life, Dave LOVED the outdoors. He fondly recalled the days of his youth spent playing baseball with friends on warm, beautiful summer days, or riding dirt bikes with his brother Steve and friends on his grandparent’s vegetable farm. He often said that his parents “hardly knew what he looked like” because he and his friends were always heading out the door for their next adventure. This continued into high school, as Dave kept on with baseball and also developed a true talent for golf. His dad maintained that Dave had enough talent to become a professional golfer. Along with his love of sports, Dave also developed a passion for muscle cars; lots and lots of hours were spent under the hoods of various cars along the way, with his favorite being the 1972 Chevelle SS. Steve says Dave put many hours of time and effort into making it “Dave’s car”.
Dave spent his teenage and early adult summers working on his grandparents’ vegetable farm in Anoka, Minnesota. Years later, his grandfather would proudly state that Dave could offload a radish combine “without spilling one radish!” Dave proudly worked hard, long hours side by side with family members in helping his grandparents, both of whom greatly influenced him throughout his life, grow their farm.
Dave’s career path took him to the world of read more
