Big Sandy News

A 65-year-old man died Wednesday night in a single-vehicle rollover outside of Great Falls.

Settlers of the rugged Upper Missouri River Breaks and surviving descendants are featured in a new Bureau of Land Management-sponsored history documentary airing for the first time Thursday on Montana PBS.

BIG SANDY - The Big Sandy community is holding a fundraiser Friday to help the Pearson family, whose home was destroyed in a suspected arson fire May 1. Ron and Gay Pearson's ranch is about 40 miles southeast of Big Sandy on the banks of the Missouri River.

A three-woman drug ring pumped nearly 6,000 tablets of opiates and depressants into the Havre and Rocky Boy's communities before it was busted by federal agents in 2005.

On Friday evening, May 15th, the Big Sandy graduating class of 2009 stood proudly in front of perhaps the largest audience the school has seen for quite some time.

Summer camp is a part of the agenda for many Montana kids' during the school break and farm organizations offer several options of the tradition.

A benefit account has been set up in Big Sandy for a family that lost their home in a fire.

Imagine a 2,500-square-foot house with wood beams built from timbers cut in the nearby Bear Paw Mountains.

The fire that completely destroyed the home of Gay and Ron Pearson southeast of Big Sandy is being investigated as arson, according to a fire department official.

Some of the best small-school athletes in Montana will showcase their varied talents today at Memorial at the annual Cascade Lions Top 8 track meet.

HELENA - Army Air Corps veteran Don Lowell Brown, 92, of Helena, died of natural causes Friday at his home.

For many student athletes the rush of a heart-pounding race will be just as thrilling as those anxious steps to accept their high school diploma.

Fire of suspicious origin destroyed the ranchhouse of a well-known melon farm about 40 miles southeast of Big Sandy, Fire Chief Larry Ophus said Monday.

BROWNING - Blackfeet artist Darrell Norman's latest project creates very modern metal art using ancient images from pictographs.

The coroner in Chouteau County released the names of the two Havre-area men who were killed in a vehicle accident near Loma.

My grandfather, Chriss Johnson, was born in Norway, May 4, 1871. He came to the U.S. in 1875, with his mother.

BIG SANDY - German immigrant Frieda Finke, 91, Big Sandy, who along with her husband farmed for many years near Big Sandy and enjoyed gardening, bowling, cooking and playing cards, died of natural causes Friday at Big Sandy Medical Center.

Christie Kim Weaver and Jeffrey Matthew Nissen plan to be married Sept. 5. She is the daughter of Alan and Rachel Weaver of Big Sandy, and he is the son of Larry and Patty Nissen of Chinook and the late Anne Nissen.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... STATE GIRL'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS IN THE CLASS A, B AND C CLASSIFICATIONS ARE TAKING PLACE ACROSS THE STATE BEGINNING TODAY.

BIG SANDY - Mary "Jean" Denning, 67, of Big Sandy, a retired director of Big Sandy Activities, died of cancer Tuesday at a Big Sandy hospital.