Chester News

The Rocky Boy's/Northcentral Montana Regional Water Project has seen both the perks and the pitfalls of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress in February.

CHESTER - James K. "Jim" Laird, 84, a retired Chester-area farmer, died Thursday in Chester, following a lengthy illness.

Chester celebrates the end of the summer growing season on Saturday at the Liberty County 'Get Down' Town Harvest Festival.

RUDYARD - Colby Cole Hawley, 3 1 2 years old, was killed by a west bound BNSF freight train Saturday morning near Rudyard.

A BNSF Railway spokesman says that a 3-year-old boy has been struck and killed by a freight train in northern Montana.

Brandi Brekke-Mangold kept quiet about her oldest daughter Alyssa's disease for 11 years.

Being the editor of a weekly newspaper for motorcycle enthusiast does not mean that I get to go to all of the events.

BOZEMAN - Police said an intoxicated 35-year-old woman intentionally drove her husband's pickup truck into a coffee bar on Bozeman's Main Street.

CHESTER - Leora Gibson, 83, a longtime Chester resident, died of natural causes Saturday in Billings.

Mary Kay Rambo can't help but cry sitting in Chester's home economics classroom, surrounded by shiny sinks, new cupboards and countertops.

Kurt Kammerzell didn't start out to be an implement designer, but rather a better, more efficient farmer.

CHESTER - Ernest Joseph Gagnon, 96, a lifelong Liberty County area farmer who enjoyed reading, music, woodworking, remodeling and building projects, died of natural causes on Saturday at his farm home south of Chester.

U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., recently announced that his congressional field representative Mike Waite will be conducting traveling office hours in Chester on Tuesday.

Mother Nature threatened, but could not dampen, the enthusiasm of volunteers who cleaned up the Tiber Reservoir shoreline during the Clean Marias/Tiber Green project April 25.

Sometimes they come up empty; sometimes they wishthey had come up empty; and sometimes they get lucky.

Dr. Anna Earl grew up in Fort Benton and knew at some point after medical school she wanted to come back to northcentral Montana.

A couple of years ago, Liberty County Hospital in Chester was struggling to stay open and operating at a loss.

A plan to connect rural water users in northeastern Hill County to a water treatment plant in Havre is moving forward.

Prudence 'P.J.' Hullman and Logan Lybeck have chosen a June 20 wedding date. She is the daughter of Prudy Hullman of Worden and David Hullman of Onalaska, Wis.