The Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board held their regular full meeting in Poplar Sept. 9 The board voted to recognize the Tribal Service Unit Director, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Deputy Director and HPDP finance manager as the authorizing authority to sign all documents pertaining to all HPDP financial/administrative matters. Some community members have questioned the move, which

The Wolf Point School Board approved the hiring of several extra-curricular positions during its meeting on Monday, Sept. 9. Extra-curricular responsibilities approved to be handled by music director Jacob Bradshaw are pep band, Madrigal, high school band and chorus extra and junior high band and chorus extra. Head coaches approved were Rodney Paulson for golf and Dan Horsmon for tennis.

The United States Department of Agriculture has designated three counties, including Roosevelt County, as Primary Natural Disaster Areas for Drought. This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the USDA Farm Service Agency to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery

Several petition to revoke cases were conducted in district court in front of District Judge David Cybulski on Wednesday, Sept. 11. Trevor Levi Crain changed his plea and admitted to not reporting an instance of failure to comply with the law. Based on a joint recommendation, Cybulski unsuspended Crain’s 10-year sentence with the Department of Corrections for Crain to receive treatment.

Thousands of Montana taxpayers have already successfully claimed and received property tax relief. The Montana Department of Revenue has approved over 176,000 claims. The Montana Property Tax Rebate provides qualifying Montanans up to $675 of property tax relief on a primary residence in 2024. The qualifications to claim the rebate are available at getmyrebate. mt.gov. Qualified Montana taxpayers

Youth across Montana who would like to enroll in Montana 4-H are invited to do so during October. Montana 4-H is the youth development program of Montana State University Extension. It offers a range of choices and opportunities for youth to learn and grow, such as learning how to bake, knit and raise an animal, or learning about beekeeping, photography and robotics. In all, Montana 4-H offers

The Montana National Guard’s Defensive Cyber Operations Element provided a day of training and familiarization to students, and a report of Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency Cyber Resilience Review Self-Assessment and Innovative Readiness Training to Montana State University faculty, staff, students and guard leadership, Sept. 5-6, at MSU. The DCOE has been working with