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Badger Track and Field Early Season Wrap Up
With a total of 40 student athletes, Badger Track and Field is off to a strong start. Personal Records are the focus as we try to improve individual marks throughout the season. This season also...
Swimming Pool Issues Discussed at City Meeting
"If we don't get any kids (lifeguards) soon, we won't be able to open the pool." With that, the issue of hiring lifeguards for the summer was introduced. It seems that the town is not seeing any...
Cascade High School Golf Summary
The 2024 edition of the Cascade Badger High School Golf Team boasts 8 golfers and is coached by Jason Raether, Kourtney Holten and Mike Moore. Audrey Rumney and Nova Smith both return from last year...
Dark Energy
Unlike most human endeavors, when science gets new data which contradicts old assumptions, it changes what is considered true rather than digging in its heels to defend what it previously declared to...
Augusta Historical Society & Museum to Present South Fork Roundup Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering
Augusta is pulling out all the stops for their first iteration of their Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering set for April 13. According to the people at the museum in Augusta, there has not been such...
Obituary: Lucy Wilson Pettapiece
Lucy Wilson Pettapiece was born March 9, 1926 in Sebring, Florida, One of the four children of Ruth (Turner) Wilson and John E. Wilson. Lucy grew up in the south, Georgia and Florida, moving many...
Obituary: Tex Rieke
Tex E. Rieke, 83, passed away peacefully at home. Born in Auburn, Indiana, Tex's heart belonged to the mountains of Montana where he moved at a young age. Raised on the Ox Bow Ranch near Wolf Creek,...
Due June 1: Scholarships from Benefis Foundation fuel dreams in medicine
GREAT FALLS – Surgery on Josh Pepos' knee during his high school wrestling career changed the course of his life with a new perspective on what his path forward would be. Pepos is working toward h...
District Music Festival
District Music Festival was held last Thursday and Friday, April 11 and 12 in Great Falls. The musicians from Cascade High School did an awesome job representing our school! Thursday saw the High...
Arbor Day Foundation Names Town of Cascade a 2023 Tree City USA
LINCOLN, Nebraska (4/2/2024) - Town of Cascade was named a 2023 Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor its commitment to effective urban forest management. The community also received a Tree City USA Growth Award for demonstrating...
Tim DeRoche Talks Civil War
Tim DeRoche, amateur historian from Ulm, Montana, was the featured speaker at the Wedsworth Library last Wednesday evening, April 10. Mr. DeRoche spoke on the Civil War, the Confederate Side. The...
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
“Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.” The poem was Longfellow’s embodiment of Revere as the courage and determination of the ordin...
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Our First Total Eclipse... Sorta
The much anticipated event of the week was the spectacle of a total solar eclipse that was to sweep across North America Monday, traversing 15 states, from Texas to Maine, and although Montana was...
Caiden Sekuterski Signs With the University of Montana
Congrats to Class of 2024 Senior Caiden Sekuterski on committing to continue his athletic career as a Griz! Caiden has signed to run track for the University of Montana, competing in the horizontal...
Sacred Heart Women's Craft Show
Great turnout at the Sacred Heart Women's Craft Show at Wedsworth Hall Saturday. Local ladies, as well as some from the surrounding communities brought their quality wares, transforming the Hall into...
Odds and Ends
Maybe it’s my age showing but I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with the inability of tech companies to stop making it difficult to use software from other companies seamlessly. They go out of the...
Our freedom is in danger
Americans will soon lose their freedom unless people of faith stand against evil sweeping the nation, according to best-selling author Eric Metaxas. This prophetic warning was given at the Foothills C...
Obituary: Donald Heikkila
Donald "Big Don" Heikkila was born to Henry and Anna Marie Heikkila on February 12, 1954 and passed away from complications from RSV on March 25, 2024 at the age of 70. Donnie and his twin sister are...
Just Give Up and Win
I imagine that many who read these articles would call themselves “Christian”. But I am not so naive as to think everyone who reads them would be, as Jesus says, “born-again”. There are many religious souls who feel they are right with God, when in...
Home and Garden Show and Sale
Always a hit, the Home and Garden Show and Sale was in full swing April 5th-7th at the Montana Expo Park in Great Falls. The show offered "the finest array of products, services, and ideas to elevate...
Deeply Rooted In Montana
One of Montana’s great agricultural crops that is often overlooked yet continues to be grown, in appreciation for its nutritional values, in humans and in animals, is Alfalfa. Discovery of its v...
DPHHS Officials Encourage Safe Handling of Live Poultry
State health officials are raising awareness about the health risks associated with raising backyard birds. Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) epidemiologist Rachel Hinnenkamp said that while raising backyard birds has become an...
