Info re: Scobey MT?

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by Vulcan500

Heading east to west, just before you head up Homestake, keep a close eye out for a small sign on the right for "Ringing Rocks".

Thanks. It "sounds" like an awesome place to check out!!

[omgthatsfunny]

Originally Posted by Vulcan500

My only experience with Scobey was a few years ago while on a tour of the eastern part of our fair state (being from the south-central part). Every small town has great people, but stopping in the grocery store on a Sunday morning for Tylenol was a singular experience...not many people in the store and each one stared at me as if I had 2 heads. >shudder<
In retrospect, it seems only natural to stare at strangers in such a small, off-the-beaten-path kind of town, but at the time, it creeped me out. Made me want to point at my car parked outside and explain that I was a Montanan, too....

You do need to go back to that store just for the experience. The young couple have done wonders, made changes, brightened up the place, working on bringing back the customers that left for the same reason you did (and they were driving vehicles registered locally!), and they even smile and visit with you! For sure, Scobey is a small town and it may seem a little bit slow or off the beaten path, but there are great people there! It's a safe place to raise your children or even bring your grandchildren back to after experience the craziness of big city living. You can leave your doors unlocked (most of the time), and your neighbors usually keep an eye on things (like most places and usually in a favorable way). You get used to stocking up when you go to the city if you can't get particular needs in town. Every place has it's pros/cons. Most who live in Scobey are pro-rural living!

Ya'll come back ya hear!?

[ComputerUser000]

Originally Posted by omgthatsfunny

You do need to go back to that store just for the experience. The young couple have done wonders, made changes, brightened up the place, working on bringing back the customers that left for the same reason you did (and they were driving vehicles registered locally!), and they even smile and visit with you! For sure, Scobey is a small town and it may seem a little bit slow or off the beaten path, but there are great people there! It's a safe place to raise your children or even bring your grandchildren back to after experience the craziness of big city living. You can leave your doors unlocked (most of the time), and your neighbors usually keep an eye on things (like most places and usually in a favorable way). You get used to stocking up when you go to the city if you can't get particular needs in town. Every place has it's pros/cons. Most who live in Scobey are pro-rural living!

Ya'll come back ya hear!?

What's the radio station in Scobey like, what does it program? I know this is an old post, so sorry for digging it up

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by omgthatsfunny

For sure, Scobey is a small town and it may seem a little bit slow or off the beaten path, but there are great people there! It's a safe place to raise your children or even bring your grandchildren back to after experience the craziness of big city living. You can leave your doors unlocked (most of the time), and your neighbors usually keep an eye on things (like most places and usually in a favorable way). You get used to stocking up when you go to the city if you can't get particular needs in town. Every place has it's pros/cons. Most who live in Scobey are pro-rural living!

Ya'll come back ya hear!?

Sounds like a perfect town to me!! Slow and easy.

[emilieboyles]

Scobey is beautiful!! If you pm me with your email address I can send you the scobey portion of a series I did earlier this year called "The State of Eastern Montana - Interviews with Eastern Montana Mayors".
In fact, if anyone else is interested, there are segments with mayors from Wolf Point, Scobey, Miles City, Terry, Glendive, Circle, Baker, Ekalaka, Culbertson, Medicine Lake, Plentywood, and Forsyth. Each mayor was asked to talk about attractions in their town, economic outlook, and their legacy as mayor.
(If the mods here are interested, I'd be happy to allow them to have copies of the broadcasts with permission to use them here).

Scobey has a great symphony orchestra (yes, indeed it does!) a summer dancehall show, a great museum, and fantastic community. It has jobs in education, farming, and IT..it's the home of Nemont telecom which serves Northeastern MT and Northwestern ND. Additionally, it is the "major" town in Daniels County. Daniels county has had multiple oil and gas leases sold recently so jobs and growth are inevitable. If you or family members are older, it also has a very lively and enterprising older community.

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by emilieboyles

Scobey is beautiful!! If you pm me with your email address I can send you the scobey portion of a series I did earlier this year called "The State of Eastern Montana - Interviews with Eastern Montana Mayors".

That sounds wonderful! Very neat concept. How large are the files?

[emilieboyles]

Originally Posted by Reziac

That sounds wonderful! Very neat concept. How large are the files?

I'll have to look when I'm in the production room later this week..they are not too big...they run 6 min or less each...I"m generally able to email them pretty easily.

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by emilieboyles

I'll have to look when I'm in the production room later this week..they are not too big...they run 6 min or less each...I"m generally able to email them pretty easily.

That's still probably a bit big for most folks' mailboxes. Have you got an FTP site where you could stick 'em so folks could download at their leisure?