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Nov 28, 2024 | 
stillwatercountynews.com | Gail Decker Cushman
Immanual Lutheran Church in Absarokee welcomes Seminarian Judy Manweiler as pastor. A Joliet resident, Pastor Manweiler has been studying for the ministry for several years, and recently became a Certified Lay Pastoral Assistant of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She is currently a Seminarian at Luther House of Study, anchored in Lutheran theology. She is scheduled to finish her studies and become an ordained minister by early 2025.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
stillwatercountynews.com | Gail Decker Cushman |Robert Mitchell
This week, on the corner of Pratten Street and Pike Avenue in Columbus, sat a truck. Not just any truck, but a giant truck and trailer weighing 500,000 pounds (or 250 tons) when loaded. I’m always curious about things that seem a little off, so I stopped to talk to the first person I saw. It happened to be Will Kelsey, the man in charge of moving the giant truck.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
stillwatercountynews.com | Gail Decker Cushman
When we arrived home today from one of those scattergun trips to Billings, three boxes of books holding my tenth book, Murder in the Diocese, greeted us. It was the first book that I wrote (out of ten!) and might be my favorite. I want to show my new book off! We will host a Book Launch at Uncle Sam’s at 619 Clough Street from 2—6 on Tuesday, November 12 and I hope you’ll drop by for a libation and a cookie and take a gander at my book.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
stillwatercountynews.com | Gail Decker Cushman
It’s Halloween: the season of spooks, the eerie and the unexplained. It's a fun time of year, and I'm also up for getting in on the action. However, when editor Charlie Denison tasked me with finding out about rumors of things that go bump in the night at the New Atlas Bar, I didn’t really expect I’d find much.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
stillwatercountynews.com | Gail Decker Cushman
This week’s ramblings led me to Gretchen Graham, an avid pickleball player right here in Columbus. I don’t know much about pickleball, but thought now is a good time to learn, so my husband Cowboy and I met her at the newly surfaced tennis courts, which have recently been marked with pickleball boundaries.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
stillwatercountynews.com | Gail Decker Cushman
Montana is a big state without a lot of people, so it is logical to realize that there is a lot of “back country,” that is, areas that have not yet been discovered by those who live on the west coast. You know who I’m talking about.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
stillwatercountynews.com | Gail Decker Cushman
The Absarokee Community Foundation’s Small Town Heroes community dinner took place on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the Cobblestone School. About 70 people met for dinner and heard Air Force General Marty Reynolds talk about the foundation’s programs and the advantages of small communities. General Reynolds, a 1988 Absarokee High School graduate and football standout, shared his journey.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
stillwatercountynews.com | Gail Decker Cushman
The Absarokee Community Foundation’s Small Town Heroes community dinner took place on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the Cobblestone School. About 70 people met for dinner and heard Air Force General Marty Reynolds talk about the foundation’s programs and the advantages of small communities. General Reynolds, a 1988 Absarokee High School graduate and football standout, shared his journey.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
bozemandailychronicle.com | Gail Decker Cushman
My husband “Cowboy” and I are attracted to small towns, and so it is natural to be drawn to such villages as Edgar (Pop:169), Roscoe (Pop:24) and today we set our sights on Reed Point (Pop:175) and their 36th annual Great Montana Centennial Sheep Drive, which had a variety of events that made us smile, including a parade and an auction — with some items going for exorbitant prices (all proceeds going toward refurbishing the depot.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
cnhinews.com | Gail Decker Cushman
My husband “Cowboy” and I are attracted to small towns, and so it is natural to be drawn to such villages as Edgar (Pop:169), Roscoe (Pop:24) and today we set our sights on Reed Point (Pop:175) and their 36th annual Great Montana Centennial Sheep Drive, which had a variety of events that made us smile, including a parade and an auction — with some items going for exorbitant prices (all proceeds going toward refurbishing the depot.
