Sherry’s tournamentSherry’s third annual soft-

ball tournament is June 14 at South Meadow field. For more information, contact Tammy Pedersen at 406-489-0451 or at sherrystourna-ment@hotmail.com.

Prizes will be award throughout the day. Entry fee is $100 per team.

For more information or to register a team, contact Tammy Pedersen at 489-0451 or at sherrystournament@hotmail.com.

You can also like the tour-nament’s Facebook page – Sherry’s softball tourna-ment.

Theatre campThe 19th annual Footlights

and Greasepaint Youth Theatre Retreat is July 7-12 in Sidney. The camp will perform “The Unprincess” July 12 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Matthew’s gym.

To register for the camp, call 1-800-482-5109 or email arch@midrivers.com. Register online at www.acomofmt.com/Children’s Theatre.

Hamburgers in the ParkThe Fairview ribbon walk

teams will hold Hamburg-ers in the Park this summer starting Friday. The events will be each Friday from 5-7 p.m. at through July 18 at Sharbono Park except June 27 and July 4. All funds will be given to the Sidney cancer center.

Kiwanis pie socialThe Sidney Kiwanis Club

will have its pie social June 13 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of the Richland County Courthouse.

Menu includes brats, hot dogs, beans, chips, bever-ages, ice cream and pie.

Red Cross meetingLocal Red Cross meeting

is held at 5:30 p.m. on the second Monday of every month at the Nutter Build-ing in Sidney, use the back door please. For information on joining, call Lue Ander-son at 406-480-9463.

Sons of NorwaySons of Norway will hold

its June business meeting at 7 p.m. June 10 at 714 East Main.

All are welcome to at-tend. Plans will be finalized for the Richland County Centennial in June and the Richland County Fair in August.

Church serviceThe centennial church

service starts at 9:30 a.m. June 15 at the Richland County Fair Event Center. A balloon launch is scheduled after the service at the Rich-land County Fairgrounds.

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Fun rideYoungsters and parents get ready to ride on a fire engine during the Sidney Volunteer Fire Department’s breakfast Sunday.

By BiLL VANDeR WeeLeSidney Herald

A heavy rain came down in the area Saturday night and made traveling in some locations a challenge.

The National Weather Service in Glasgow report-ed that Sidney received 1.36 inches on Saturday night. When you add that amount to the .87 of an inch that was reported on Thursday, there were plenty of sloppy areas Saturday night.

Duane Bieber, Richland County public works de-partment, noted the worse roads included County Road 129, located west of Highway 16, and County Road 131, located north of County Road 129. Water was also over the road on County Road 112, located south of Sidney going east

of Highway 16, along with County Road 111, going west of Highway 16.

“There was nothing that was impassable,” Bieber said. The biggest damage was an approach on County Road 111, west of Sidney, that needs to be rebuild.

He believes Highway 16, between Sidney and Culbertson, was closed for awhile because of concerns of traveling east on High-way 201 where debris was on the road.

Bieber is hopeful the area receives dry weather condi-tions in the near future so the county can catch up on road work. The biggest threat of precipitation appears to be Wednesday where there’s a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms.

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One of the areas hit hard by rain on Saturday night.

By SuSAN MiNiCHieLLoSidney Herald

The Sidney-Richland County Library is making efforts to prove to county commissioners that it needs a new building.

“We need the community as a whole — if they’re in support of us growing and expanding — to come forward and let the commis-sioners know we need that support,” Heather Cotter, Sidney-Richland County Library director, said.

More efforts are being done by the library and Sidney-Richland County Public Library Foundation following an April meeting with Richland County com-missioners, in which com-missioner Duane Mitchell called the library a “luxury item.”

“That really got people’s attention,” Cotter noted.

Residents can show their support by signing a sup-port letter at the library, or by reaching out to the com-

missioners directly through phone or email. The com-missioners’ email addresses are dmitchell@richland.org, sgorder@richland.org, and lyoung@richland.org.

The support letters have a heading that states, “A library is not a luxury item: it’s the core of our commu-

nity.”Richland County Commis-

sioner Loren Young agrees with that statement. He counts the library as one of his top four issues alongside a new fire hall, county hous-ing and infrastructure.”

“I think a library is a necessity of the commu-

nity,” Young said. “If there’s any meetings in the future that come up in regards to the library, I encourage you to come out and give your input on how you feel about the library. That’s all we’ve got to go by, is the feel of the community.”

Young is more in favor of an expansion instead of a new building, but he added that he would like to listen to wwhat the community wants.

Cotter explained a new building instead of an expansion to the current building would be a better choice. With an expansion, “it’s not giving us what we fully need so you’re going to have to turn around and re-vamp it again,” Cotter said. “You’re doing just enough to make it work a little bit longer. It’s not sustainable.”

Another point Cotter made was how the current building was built in the 1960s, so it’s less accommo-dating to new technology,

Wanting a new libraryofficials offer support letters for residents to send to county

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The library was once located in a local bank.

By SuSAN MiNiCHieLLoSidney Herald

After four years of go-ing through the grant and loan process, the Savage 2M Sewer District board antici-pates construction to begin this fall.

Sandy Kust, Arrow Creek Consulting, has worked on securing grants for the project since 2010. Funds were secured last summer, with the exception of the Treasure State Endowment program that is contingent on sewer rates being raised to above the target rate.

Kust attended the monthly Savage 2M Sewer District board meeting Monday to give updates on the project. The land acquisition is com-plete with just a few more loose ends to tie up in the next month.

“We’re anticipating signatures will be done this month,” Kust said.

The next step will be to get a design for the project. Chad Hanson from Great West En-gineering out of Billings is the project manager. “From

there, the project keeps on rolling forward,” Kust said.

Previously, the DEQ issued many violation letters to Richland County for Sav-age’s outdated lagoon. Kust said she doubts there will be any fines enforced.

“As long as DEQ sees that they’re moving forward with this project, which they are, they’ll give them leniency,” Kust said. “They understand that it takes four to five years.”

Funds secured included $425,276 from the Commu-nity Development Block Grant (CDBG), $100,000 from the Department of Natural Resource Conservation, $100,000 from the Montana Coal Board Grant, $13,000 from Richland County and $266,000 from the USDA Ru-ral Development grant and

Construction on Savage’s lagoon to startduring fall

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signatures will be done

this month.’

Sandy Kustarrow Creek Consulting

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