It started out as a high school jazz band. Then, the power of music — maybe as strong of the force as a bolt of lightning — struck and the effort grew into a group of 11 members featuring current and past Wolf Point High School music enthusiasts. “Cole [Boysun] really wanted to do a jazz band, and I said I would do it with him,” Ryan Schumacher, Wolf Point class of 2024 member, said.

The Wolf Point School Board approved pay raises for building principals during its meeting on Wednesday, June 25. Superintendent of Schools Dr. David Perkins explained the current salary schedule had principals receiving a 2 percent during their first six years and then 1 percent annually after that. “We’re going to have teachers paid more than our principals if we aren’t careful,” Perkins

( Publisher’s Note: The following blotter includes the activities of the Wolf Point police and fire department June 23-29.) June 24 Shadey Wienke, 29, female, 400 block of Second Avenue South, warrant, municipal court. The WPPD had the following activity: abandoned auto, one; animal cruelty/ neglect, one; animal/dog bite, four; animal, one; animal/ stray, one; assault, six; assistance

Prisoners housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center over the past week included: Phillip Azure Jr., 22, Wolf Point, hold for other agency. Dale Barton, 34, Glendive, hold for other agency. Vincent Bell, 33, Billings, hold for other agency. Mylon Blacksmith, 29, Lodge Grass, hold for other agency. Christian Bramley, 25, Billings, hold for other agency. James Brown, 32, Wolf

The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office responded to 83 calls from June 23-30. The calls included the following: June 24 Deputies and the Bainville Fire Department responded to a fire of an oil well pump jack located a mile east of Bainville. At the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office, an officer from the Montana State Probation and Parole seized evidence of a failed drug test. An individual

A status/evidentiary hearing in the Brianna Jensen- Rowe case provided little progress in district court on Tuesday, June 24. Defense attorney Gerald Harris explained that Jensen-Rowe was mentally evaluated by Indian Health Services and attorneys still haven’t received the results. “I don’t have clarity of the holdup,” Harris said to Judge Benjamin Fosland. The report’s content

Natasha Moncivaiz of Pueblo, Colo., was sentenced during a hearing in district court on Tuesday, June 24. Judge Benjamin Fosland sentenced Moncivaiz to a five-year deferred sentence and a $1,000 fine for the charge of possession with the intent to distribute meth and a three-year deferred sentence and $1,000 fine for the charge of possession of a dangerous drug (fentanyl). Both of the fines were