Dear Editor: If you have vacant property or a vacant lot that has a water service line, now or in the past, you will be charged $70 a month — usage does not matter. To disconnect, you have to do it at the corporation valve. The curb stop valve is not valid. The corporation valve is attached to the main water line. To get access to the corporation valve, an eight-foot hole in the street or

Congressman Greg Gianforte’s bipartisan legislation to create a universal telephone number as the National Suicide Hotline took a step forward Tuesday, March 10, unanimously passing the Communications and Technology Subcommittee. The legislation designates “9-8-8” as the universal telephone number for the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system, which is

( Publisher’s Note: Each week, the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office distributes an inmate roster with the names of everyone incarcerated and persons booked into the jail during the previous week and does not necessarily mean there is a new charge or conviction.) As of March 10, 24 prisoners were housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center. Prisoners included: Joseph Agosto Jr., 20,

When Gregory Gilpin was getting his first driver’s license in 1992, the process was pretty simple. There was a 20-question multiple choice test to get a permit. After a month, he went back, took a driving test and got a full unrestricted license. “That’s very different from today,” said Gilpin, head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics in Montana State University’s

Randee Shannon, an International Program for Young Adults representative, will be in Roosevelt County to share her experiences while in Finland and Germany through presentations. She will be visiting some of the schools and senior centers throughout the county March 11-12. Shannon was an active 10year Prairie County 4-H member where she participated in 4-H camp as a camper and a camp counselor,

Randee Shannon, an International Program for Young Adults representative, will be in Roosevelt County to share her experiences while in Finland and Germany through presentations. She will be visiting some of the schools and senior centers throughout the county March 11-12. Shannon was an active 10year Prairie County 4-H member where she participated in 4-H camp as a camper and a camp counselor,

Willi “Chubbins,” Sichawastewin, (Mean But Kind Woman), was the first child born to William “Bill” Youpee Sr. and Isabel Floretta Weinberger on July 10, 1939, in Poplar, Mont. She attended her early school years in Vancouver, Wash., and Portland, Ore., and graduated from Poplar High School in 1956. As a member of the Sisseton- Yankton Dakota, Willi grew up learning and living the ways