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February must be a month to revisit topics because I’m back with marijuana-infused news, this time home-grown here in the U.S. and as wholesome as a Girl Scout working the annual cookie sales gig. Last week I reported on two Canadian cops who allegedly took marijuana from a drug bust, then proceeded to get very allegedly high — like panicked enough to call for help, but too messed up to explain the problem high and so high the problem turned out to be the other uniformed off...
Toronto newspapers are reporting that two of the city’s police officers have been suspended with pay pending an investigation on allegations that they consumed cannibis edibles while on duty. No charges have been filed and any criminal activities are only alleged at this time. But one officer called for assistance early Sunday morning because he said he thought he was hallucinating and going to pass out, and his partner was found holed up in a tree nearby. This was a few hours...
Driving onto the property at Montana Style Bed and Breakfast is akin to entering a world where treasures from other times and other places transform the rooms and atmosphere into a wonderland for guests, where an aged wooden wagon, of the horse-drawn variety, hanging from the ceiling is a chandelier, a entury-old quilt is a covering for a sub-wall, and weather-checked signs, windmill blades and rusty car parts are displayed with the rest of the fine art. Betsi Knight's bed...
Much to my surprise, a North 40 column from a few weeks ago created a confused hullabaloo among a few readers who were concerned that President Donald Trump actually might be, as I suggested, authorizing a wall of such grand proportions between the U.S. and Canada that the wall would be able to keep the cold northerly winds of Canada from crossing the border into the U.S. Yes, I was writing about a weather-stopping wall. Let me assure you, dear readers, that this notion is...
The burden of trying to be funny this week is too great for my tense and increasing stooped shoulders to bear. Fortunately, we here at Pamville News are fond of gathering odd news and this week has enough of that to fill the gap. They fought the law Reuters reported Wednesday, Jan. 17, that psychic Sally Ann Johnson was sentenced in Boston to 26 months in prison after she admitted trying to avoid paying taxes on $3.5 million she was paid by an elderly Massachusetts woman...
North Central Montana Stockgrowers Association meeting today at 6 p.m. at the Eagles Club will cover not only organization business but also business advice from guest speaker Kirk Donsbach. Donsbach, a broker with Daniels Trading who also runs his family farm and ranch operation, will use his experience developing hedging strategy over 14 years and first-hand production knowledge to help fellow producers manage for price risk — hedging, futures and options — a press release s...
The headline will read “Woman dies shopping for refrigerator.” Readers will be expecting to find that I was crushed by a 22 cubic foot appliance, flattened like Wile E. Coyote, but no, shopping is the silent killer. It’ll be a heart attack that gets me, maybe a stroke or an aneurysm just to shake things up a bit. My last words will be “I hate shopping,” then goodnight, Irene, I’ll drop to the floor in a resounding thud of defeat. It shouldn’t be this hard. I know what I d...
Call me a snowflake, I don’t care, but I refuse to participate in the scam called New Year’s resolutions because it is an affront to my emotional well-being. You know the drill. Along with lists of Top 10 Whatevers of the Year, along with the Best This and the Worst That recaps, we get this pressure to come up with awesome ways we are going become the new and improved version of ourselves — eat right, get more sleep, exercise more, lose weight, get a raise/...
With a notoriously poor memory for the events of my childhood and a brain that seems to make stronger, longer-lasting neural links with negative memories than happy ones, it’s nothing short of a Christmas miracle that I have so many fond memories of this holiday from my younger years. Even before the annual hunt for the perfect tree came the package from my Grandma Inez with her version of an advent calendar: a wall hanging of burlap with a green felt Christmas tree. It had t...
Remember when perfectly groomed, makeup-wearing men in stylish clothes looked like women but somehow claimed they were men — not just pretty males, but actual men — and the world called them metrosexual? Which still didn’t sound manly, by the way, but people in the style industry didn’t understand the difference so it was OK — for far too long. Then one day some fashion-forward style guru saw a guy who looked like a useful man and said, “Ohmigawd, I can do that. I can make th...
At a time when the rural landscape is losing more and more of its agricultural icons Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission is honoring the H. Earl Clack Co. and Centennial Mills elevators - Havre's old, corrugated steal-sided grain elevators - as the subject of its limited-edition Christmas ornaments this year. "We selected this, as the commission, just because there's kind of a disappearance of elevators that has happened in recent years," Becki Miller, the...
Sure I joke about Canada, give them a little friendly ribbing about how polite they are, but I realize it’s in their constitution that they have to be kind to everyone, so imagine my surprise this week to see Canadians being so hateful to Americans. And by hateful I mean that someone compiled, printed up and is now selling a little calendar called “Justin Trudeau, My Canadian Boyfriend.” And by calendar I mean a collection of 12 GQ-like photos showcasing the Canadian prime...
Born more than a century ago in a homestead shack 12 miles north of Rudyard - before electricity, indoor plumbing, telephones and motorized vehicles became commonplace in rural America - Mary Lincoln turned 106 years old today. To help their firstborn stay warm that winter, infant Mary's parents, Henry and Sarah Ritter, laid her in her box on the open oven door and slept with her between them at night, said Mary's son, Roger Lincoln of Gildford. "A newborn? I wouldn't sleep...
While basking in the afterglow of too much Thanksgiving, rushing into pre-Christmas sale-ing and joining in the holiday season openers, we should all take a moment to send good thoughts to Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old southern California limo driver and nascent astronaut whose maiden voyage toward outer space is planned for this weekend. Hughes has spent about $20,000 building a rocket — and launch pad made from a mobile home — to take him into space, and this weekend’s pilot...
The problem is that, and this needs explaining, I come from a long line of pile-makers on the maternal side of my family. Not hoarders — we’re pilers, like hoarders-lite. We don’t save bizarre stuff like stacks of every McDonald’s french fry holder we’ve ever gotten with a meal or all the hairballs brushed off the dogs. We don’t have to negotiate a maze of newspaper towers to get down the hallway to the bathroom. We don’t have one room of the house set aside just to hold...
Havre's Community Thanksgiving Dinner is free to everyone through support from an anonymous donor, but what makes it run smoothly is the help of many volunteers. This year’s Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 23, at St. Jude Parish Center. Anyone interested in volunteering to work even a short shift to organize and put on the dinner can sign up to help in any of the following time periods: Wednesday, Nov. 22 • 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with kit...
Andrea Schmunk, a 28-year-old mother in Wisconsin, has been arrested on a felony charge of recklessly endangering safety after she allegedly used her 9-year-old son to help weigh down a plastic pool she had strapped to the top of a minivan. Yes, the article in the Ozaukee Press says, Schmunk reportedly tied her son and the plastic pool to the top of a minivan that she then drove down streets. At some point, though, she stopped and put the kid and the pool in the vehicle. Witne...
I am drawn to useful people, and somewhere along the line I realized that it’s as if — on some subconscious level — my brain is working to assemble a zombie apocalypse team. A team that could save the world. If it comes that we survive fire and ice, gale-force winds, floods and earth-shattering quakes only to be overrun by gruesome, brain-crazed half-humans gone overripe, I have this crisis covered with my peeps by my side. Sure, our collective skills set includes plent...
Sugar is evil, the article said. Give up the nectar of Satan, the research told me. Feel like you have an alert, newly minted brain, the health food zealots said. What fresh level of hell is this, my body is asking. I’m old enough to be born in the day when no advertising bragged that a product contained all-natural sugar because everything had sugar, or you added sugar. Sugar advertisements targeted children, moms wanted to have those toothsome, smiling, singing children f...
I didn’t expect to become obsessed with glass-making videos, yet here I am spending several hours a week watching Youtube videos of the folks at the Corning Museum of Glass make the most beautiful glassworks. Just this morning I watched one of their glass artists, called gaffers, and his team of three or four students make one and a half elaborate blue-glass goblets in one hour and 14 minutes — like it was nothing. They took metal rods, stuck them in a vat of molten gla...
The universe is getting a jump start on Halloween this year, and it’s doing a pretty good job of setting up a good creepy vibe. Let’s just jump right in with the spiders, the biting spiders. Huntsville, Alabama’s Fire and Rescue Station 17 firefighters had to abandon their post last week after two firefighters were bit by spiders, brown recluse spiders, the spiders who have the flesh-eating bacteria equivalent of spider bites, the bite like the bad apple in the bunch that...
A total of 44 hours without power starts out all fun and games, but after a while things get real, and nothing spoils the mood like real. The great winter storm of early autumn 2017 kicked into gear Monday, overwhelming our electricity with its hard-driven slushiness, just after sundown. On the first day of my week off. No big deal. I had just finished supper. The temperature was still above freezing. My husband, John, and I just hunkered down with some warm blankets and did...
The 2017 drought may be the silver lining for rangeland hit by the East Fork Fire, a rangeland plant ecologist at Montana State University said, but some burned areas might require special attention from landowners to help them recover quality, healthy livestock forage. “You were pretty dry up there — it may very well be that the level of damage is pretty minor given that the plants weren’t growing,” Craig Carr, assistant professor of rangeland ecology at MSU in Bozeman, said....
Producers with rangeland affected by the fire — whether pastures, shelters and water sources were burned, disturbed by firebreaks or traffic from firefighting equipment, or stressed by overuse from changes in grazing rotation and drought — can get help from local sources. Montana State University Extension agents, USDA Natural Resources and Conservation offices, the Northern Agricultural Research Center and county weed districts can provide information on rangeland rec...
The 22,000-acre East Fork Fire burned range land for many Bear Paw Mountain ranchers and threatened that of many more, but burned areas in the longterm could be beneficial to the range land and some relief may be available for ranchers in the short term, said a range researcher at Montana State University. Although the fire brought immediate pasture devastation and financial hardships, the outcomes for range lands can be good if affected producers can find a way to keep the...
