Who Has the Bigger Bite. Food Drive for Three Forks and Townsend food banks. Drop off sonations at the popcorn stand at the Three Forks volleyball and Football games this week during the homecoming games.
Three Forks FFA had a fantastic night at the District Leadership School in Belgrade! The District Leadership School focuses on leadership and personal development workshops for our FFA members. This one-day leadership conference is the kick-off to the new year each fall, and a chance for state officers and members alike to network with chapters in their region and develop team skills for the year ahead.
Three Forks FFA sent 16 members to DLS, and we are excited about the future of this year!
Three Forks FFA sent 16 members to DLS, and we are excited about the future of this year!
This week was filled with all sorts of fun activities in the agriculture department. We included fun, interactive lessons related to dairy product identification, livestock handling tools, extension cord repair, and vet tool identification. A huge thank you to Chuteside Vet for allowing us to look at real-world tools. We ended the week with a fun roping activity! An enjoyable, busy week, with more to come!
A few more middle school woods projects that got completed just before the weekend!
Reminder: We received the following notice that there will be another opportunity for tax credit donations to Montana districts coming up next week. If you are interested you can find more information at the provided link or call our Business Office @ 406-285-3224, Ext 125.
Beginning on September 23, 2025, at 9:00 a.m., a limited number of Public-School Districts (PSD) tax credits for tax year 2025 will become available on the Education Donations2 Portal.
These tax credits are available because some previously approved credits became invalid. A credit reservation can become invalid if a donation amount was recorded incorrectly, or a PSD returned a donation to a donor. These invalid credit amounts will be “put back” in the pool of available credits as of September 23, 2025.
As of September 17, 2025, there is $84,750 in PSD tax credits available for reservation. Visit the Education Donations2 Portal at https://svc.mt.gov/dor/educationdonation2/ for up-to-date information on the availability of tax credits.
Beginning on September 23, 2025, at 9:00 a.m., a limited number of Public-School Districts (PSD) tax credits for tax year 2025 will become available on the Education Donations2 Portal.
These tax credits are available because some previously approved credits became invalid. A credit reservation can become invalid if a donation amount was recorded incorrectly, or a PSD returned a donation to a donor. These invalid credit amounts will be “put back” in the pool of available credits as of September 23, 2025.
As of September 17, 2025, there is $84,750 in PSD tax credits available for reservation. Visit the Education Donations2 Portal at https://svc.mt.gov/dor/educationdonation2/ for up-to-date information on the availability of tax credits.
No such thing as too many posts when showing off these amazing middle school wood projects!
The Three Forks Agriculture Program would like to offer a huge thank you to Shawn Crawford! Over the past few days, Mr. Crawford shared his knowledge and experience as a wild-land and structure firefighter with a variety of classes. He not only presented potential career options to our students, but gave them a hands on and visual presentation of just how important firefighters and first responders are in our community. Thank you Mr. Crawford for volunteering your knowledge and time!
A huge thank you to Mr. Shilf for getting us equipment for the presentation!
Homecoming spirit days! (Please note that the elementary days have been edited from the previous post. Sorry about that. )
(ZOOM day is what people would wear to a Zoom meeting--professional on top, not professional on the bottom. )
Also, student section themes this week for volleyball are Neon tonight and Blackout on Thursday.
(ZOOM day is what people would wear to a Zoom meeting--professional on top, not professional on the bottom. )
Also, student section themes this week for volleyball are Neon tonight and Blackout on Thursday.
The Three Forks School Board will meet on Tuesday, September 16, 2025 @ 6:30 pm in the TFS Board Conference Room.
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Some more awesome middle school projects this week! The middle school Wood and Tech students also had a great opportunity to try out the Williams Academy virtual reality equipment trailer. Thank you to Williams and Mr. Shilf for making this possible.
Today the Three Forks Agriculture classes explored a wide variety of units and activities, including dairy (ice cream making), fire science (forest fire models), and livestock evaluation (sheep judging). It was a fun day!
Unfortunately, we have to make a change to the junior high football schedule. Originally, the game against Manhattan was set for Monday, September 22nd at 6:00 PM, but it has been moved to Tuesday, September 23rd at 4:30 PM.
Important notes:
The JV football game is still scheduled for Monday, September 22nd at 4:00 PM — only the Junior High game is being moved.
The change is due to us rescheduling a Varsity Volleyball home game to Monday, the 22nd, as part of Homecoming Week.
With both events originally set for the same evening, I was concerned about staffing challenges and making families choose between events.
Thanks for your understanding and flexibility! Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns.
Farm To Table
Culinary students prepared three boxes of corn to freeze using our chamber packer. we will be making corn bread, corn chowder, and corny jokes this quarter.
A great night for the Three Forks FFA BBQ! Thank you to all who attended and supported!
A fun filled day of wall wiring, butter making, discussing prescribed burning, and poultry judging!
Great student section tonight supporting this awesome volleyball team! Great job, ladies!
A very busy and successful day for the Three Forks FFA! Our sponsor networking day was a great success, and our FFA members had a great day networking with business owners and advocating for the Three Forks FFA chapter.
We would like to offer a special thank you to all the businesses that made time for us today. This includes:
- Monteriors
- AgWest Farm Credit
- Ace of Belgrade
- Stockman Bank
- RDO Equipment
- Midwest Welding
- SIME Construction
- Aquatech
- Westervelt Transport and Set-Up Inc. (Gold Sponsor)
- Churchill Equipment
- Bridger Orthopedics
- Yellowstone Orthodontics
- Skyline Vet
- Sky Federal Credit Union
- Townsend Tire of Three Forks
- Montana Equine
- MCM Trucking
- Battle Ridge Builders
- Crista Kuhlman (Gold Sponsor)
- Three Forks Physical Therapy
- Manhatten Bank of Three Forks
- BBG Contractors
- Steer-In Trailer Sales
- KG Ranch/Greg Strohecker (Gold Sponsor
- Farm Bureau Insurance/Travis Short
- Chuteside Vet Clinic
- Headwaters Veterinary Hospital (Silver Sponsor)
- Torgerson's
- Frontline Ag Solutions
- Cooper Hereford
- Rocky Mountain Supply
- Three Forks Ready Mix
- Sayers Fencing
That's 33 businesses our FFA members networked with today. Thank you all for your time and great job Three Forks FFA!
The Three Forks City office let us know that they will be working on streets on Monday with the following detour information:
The High School parking lot on Neal & 2nd Avenue E will be accessible from that same intersection, but NOT accessible from the alley on Ash.
Detour the rest of traffic as follows please:
Elementary School traffic should come from Main Street to E Elm Street, then down to 5th Avenue E (or further to 6th or 7th) to Oak Street. Upon leaving they will need to take a left on Neal and go back to 5th at a minimum.
Staff and other parking – use the parking lot by the old “3-acre field”
Intersection & Street closures for repaving:
Neal Street at the 3rd Avenue E intersection.
E Ash Street on the east side of 2nd Avenue E to the 4th Avenue E intersection.
E Birch Street at the 3rd Avenue E intersection.
2nd Avenue E from E Cedar to E Date Streets.
E Cedar Street @ 3rd Avenue E
E Date (just to reiterate from above) on all sides 2nd Avenue E
The High School parking lot on Neal & 2nd Avenue E will be accessible from that same intersection, but NOT accessible from the alley on Ash.
Detour the rest of traffic as follows please:
Elementary School traffic should come from Main Street to E Elm Street, then down to 5th Avenue E (or further to 6th or 7th) to Oak Street. Upon leaving they will need to take a left on Neal and go back to 5th at a minimum.
Staff and other parking – use the parking lot by the old “3-acre field”
Intersection & Street closures for repaving:
Neal Street at the 3rd Avenue E intersection.
E Ash Street on the east side of 2nd Avenue E to the 4th Avenue E intersection.
E Birch Street at the 3rd Avenue E intersection.
2nd Avenue E from E Cedar to E Date Streets.
E Cedar Street @ 3rd Avenue E
E Date (just to reiterate from above) on all sides 2nd Avenue E
interesting Farm to Table Day! we harvested zucchini from the GarDEN to make Triple Chocolate Zucchini Ccokies. generous donation of corn from KG Ranch, picked and delivered by the Oehmcke Family. We will process and freeze tomorrow. Kids think we should make corn bread..adding that to the labs for next week when we make vegetable soup!
Three Forks School District is offering bus driver training in an effort to encourage additional drivers for our students. The class will meet for the first session tomorrow evening (Wednesday, Sept 10) at 5 pm in the TFS Board Conference Room. The district is offering a signing bonus to all new drivers including reimbursement of licensing costs for individuals willing to drive routes and / or activities. Applications may be found on our district website: https://www.applitrack.com/tfschools/onlineapp/
Please call 406-285-3224, extension 124 for more information.
Please call 406-285-3224, extension 124 for more information.