03 April 2025
Bainville At Academics Olympics
Bainville High School students competed at Academic Olympics in Glasgow last week. Participants were, from left, Addison Hansen, Elsie Wilson, Hannah Scott, Casey Myers and Bodie Olson. Myers placed second in science, third in math, fourth in social studies and seventh in English. She received the top overall sophomore award. Olson took sixth in the math event.
(Photo submitted)
School’s Bus Barn, Wrestling Room Making Progress
Shane Reed, facilities director for the Wolf Point School District, is pleased that the district’s bus barn addition is now completed and the weight room/ wrestling room is nearly finished.
“The bus barn is done. We’ve done the punch list,” Reed said last week.
Improvements on the bus barn expansion include room for more than two buses and a space for maintenance.
The project
St. Marie Water Managers Face Down Recall
According to area media, a complaint for injunctive relief was filed with the District Court in Valley County on March 3, requesting that Clerk and Recorder Marie Pippin be blocked from conducting a recall election based on a petition put forward by residents. The petition is part of an effort to recall Krystal Dickerson and Carl Millerick from the North Valley County Sewer and Water District
Schmeckfest Meal
Lustre sixth-grade student Brielle Keller (left) and seventh-grade student Ava Holzrichter enjoy the food during the
60th annual Schmeckfest on Friday, March 28.
(Photo by Bill Vander Weele)
Cottonwood Fire
Multiple area volunteer fire departments responded to a grass fire that spread across both sides of Highway 480 south of U.S. Highway 2 on March 25. The fire, which burned 689 acres, reached the brush line and thick stands of cottonwood trees but was contained north of the Missouri River by Tuesday evening, with firefighters monitoring hot spots and removing trees over the next two days. Culbertson
