Community members recently gathered to celebrate a $1000 Community Vitality Grant award by Triangle Communications to assist with improvements to the local historic school gymnasium.  A new nonprofit entity known as the Shawmut Community Center, Inc. officially took ownership of the gym on July 1, 2017.  With an organizational purpose to promote and encourage the general welfare of the community of Shawmut, they hope to aid...

According to internet expert Kim Komando, "Ransomware is the number one digital threat in the world," costing victims nearly $1 billion in 2016 alone. Cyber criminals use ransomware to encrypt your files so you can't access them, and then demand a payment in exchange for decryption. This virtual menace is tenacious because just when one ransomware version is eradicated, a new one shows up. The latest ransomware threat is called Scarab,...

The Triangle Telephone Cooperative, doing business as Triangle Communications (Triangle), Board of Trustees approved a general retirement of capital credits of approximately $986,846.56.  This sum represents 50% of the capital credits earned by members in 1991 and 0.5% (1/2 of 1%) of those earned from 1992 to 2016.  Triangle is mailing out capital credit checks to current and former cooperative members towards the end of November. ...

We held our 64th Annual Meeting of Members on Saturday, October 21, 2017.  Over 140 voting members plus numerous guests attended the meeting held in the Student Union Building on the campus of Montana State University-Northern in Havre. The attendees enjoyed a delicious meal catered by MSU-Northern.