Southside Elementary School students were back in their classrooms on Monday, Nov. 29. Because of COVID concerns, in-person instruction at the school hasn’t taken place since Nov. 3. “We are happy and healthy,” Wolf Point Superintendent of Schools Loverty Erickson said on Monday morning. “Our staff is healed and we’re ready to go again.” During a school board meeting in November,

Family and supporters of Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Michael Ellerton are conducting fundraising efforts on his behalf, following a preliminary diagnosis of carcinoma. Ellerton said a carcinoma on his leg was biopsied and has likely metastasized to his lungs. Ellerton has been with the department for over two years. The 27-year-old and his dog, Hati, have been trained and

Native American voices will enjoy a greater prominence at the University of Montana thanks to a new visiting writer fund established by Lois Welch to honor her late husband, acclaimed author James Welch. UM will use the James and Lois Welch Distinguished Native American Visiting Writer Fund to bring a prominent Native American writer to campus to teach each spring semester. In the future, the

Bryor Smith, a sophomore at Fort Peck Community College, was presented with the Montana Campus Compact’s Athlete In-Service award and scholarship during halftime of the Cat/Griz football game in Missoula. MCC presents these awards and scholarships every year to one student at each college and university in Montana. Accompanying Bryor at the awards presentation ceremony was his father, Craig Smith,