Saco News

SACO - Gary L. Olson, 67 of Saco, a retired meat cutter who enjoyed flying his single-engine aircraft and watching rodeos, died of a heart attack Saturday in Saco.

MALTA - I.W. "Pearlie" Taylor, 94, a nurse, rancher, farmer and homemaker, died of natural causes Wednesday at her daughter's home north of Saco.

Athletes from the big Class AA high schools frequently hog the track and field spotlight each spring, but that's not the case this year.

BELGRADE -- The top-ranked Highwood Mountaineers rode the 23 second-half poins of Rachel Semansky to a 55-44 victory over Saco Friday night in the semifinals of the state Class C girls' basketball tournament.

BELGRADE -- Twin Bridges rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit to defeat Saco 55-52 Saturday morning in loser-out action at the state Class C girls' basketball tournament.

The Saco Panthers lit up the scoreboard Thursday afternoon in a 68-34 romp over Terry in the first round of the state Class C girls' basketball tournament at the Special Events Center in Belgrade.

SACO - Hazel Lorreane Woodall, 75, of Saco, who enjoyed playing softball, square dancing, quilting and spending time with her family, died of natural causes Sunday at a Malta nursing home.

MALTA - Beth Lefdahl, 84, a lifelong resident of Malta and a homemaker who enjoyed cooking for branding and harvest crews, entertaining friends and family, being a mother, gardening, singing, dancing and ...

Don Jacobson, 68, of Great Falls, died of natural causes Saturday at his home. His memorial service is 3:30 p.m. Friday at Our Saviors Lutheran Church.

MALTA - Army veteran Earl Licht, 81, of Malta, a retired ditch rider for the Phillips County Irrigation District, died of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Friday at a Great Falls ...

In October 2006, a respected amateur paleontologist, Nathan L. Murphy, took a large rock containing the well-preserved bones of a new species of dinosaur to be X-rayed at the Dinosaur Field Station here.

If you're a Montanan - a real Montanan - you're slicing into a stack of whole wheat huckleberry pancakes with your trusty cattle dog by your side as you tie damselflies.

GLASGOW - State game managers have approved additional expansions of three special deer management seasons in Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 6. The special management seasons - in a portion of the Milk River ...

Six years of legal and legislative efforts to define how the public can walk from public bridges to public waters to float or fish snagged here Tuesday on something most Montanans have never heard of: ...

Dannie Fay Soennichsen, 65, of Great Falls, and formerly of Saco, an Air Force veteran and former insurance agent, died of complications from diabetes Tuesday at a local hospital.

Good morning; on this date in 1937 the Irish Free State became Ireland . On the Beacon today, the Flathead Building Association says the national construction slowdown has officially hit the Flathead .

Richard Woods anchored himself in a Chicago library to read obituaries published years ago in the newspaper that covered life and death in the remote slice of Montana where he grew up.

SACO - Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks wardens are investigating the poaching of a bull elk southeast of Saco the weekend of Nov.