Real Montana Class VI members include (back from left) Tim McEntire, Pete Steilman, Greg Gabel and Nate Hagen. (Third row) Colt Coffee, Bailey Christoffersen, Riley Slivka, Marla Chappell and Alice Miller. (Second row) Debbie Skibicki, Tina Nolevanko, Rob Bruer, Wes Gadwa and Alexis Canen. (First row) Russ Batie, Sheridan Hoyer, Clint Johannes, Brad Lopez, Erin Madison, and Tosha Johnson. (Photo

Pre-game Music Culbertson High School’s pep band gets the fans fired up prior to the football game against Plentywood on Saturday, Sept. 21. (Photo by Bill Vander Weele)

Montana’s summer was among the top 30 warmest and driest the state has seen during the past 130 years, causing drought to reach extreme levels in southwestern and the easternmost stretches of the state and leading to federal drought disaster designations for more than 20 counties. Rain that fell across nearly all of Montana earlier last week, including a wide swath of central Montana that