The eighth-grade graduation ceremony featured 40 students at Wolf Point Junior High School on Tuesday, May 27. Five honor students provided short speeches during the ceremony. Those students were Maia Kent, McKenzie Rodenberg, McKinlee Paulson, Alena Bradshaw and Annaleigh Matejovsky. Four of the students had 4.0 grade point averages and the other student had a 3.93 grade point average.

Wild West Days is coming to Downtown Poplar June 1215. There will be vendors, fun runs, community feeds, competitive events and Cowboy Church. A horseshoe tournament is set for Friday with cash prizes and trophies beginning at 2:30 p.m. and pig wrestling has a start time of 6 p.m. (don’t miss the calcutta stating at 5 p.m.). A cornhole tourney is planned for Saturday at 5 p.m. and a one

Roosevelt County residents are reminded that the deadline to file as a town council candidate is Wednesday, June 11, at 5 p.m. Wolf Point Mayor Chris Dschaak has filed for re-election. Wolf Point’s council members John Plestina in Ward 1 and Dean Mahlum in Ward 3 have also filed for re-election. The Ward 4 position currently held by Lance Four Star is also up for election. In Poplar,

The Montana Department of Commerce has announced that $320,000 of grant funding has been allocated to support 25 Native American businesses in Montana. The funding is through Commerce’s Indian Equity Fund Small Business Grant Program. “IEF funding assists startup or expanding Native American businesses in Montana with money that can be used for a variety of activities, such as the purchase

The Wolf Point School District received good news when the Montana Accreditation Report by the Office of Public Instruction was recently released. Wolf Point Superintendent of Schools Dr. David Perkins said that every Wolf Point campus received a regular grade for 2024-2025. On last year’s report, only Southside had a regular score. Each of the other Wolf Point schools had some form of non-regular

After attending the National Association of Counties’ conference held in South Dakota, Roosevelt County Commissioner Gordon Oelkers feels the county should add a visual crisis program that allows law enforcement to connect people in crisis with mental health officials. The system, already used in Montana by Custer County, gives individuals in crisis the chance to communicate through an iPad

A bill revising the Montana Indian Child Welfare Act — a priority bill this session for the Montana American Indian Caucus — was signed into law in May, though in a much weaker form than initially proposed. Montana’s Indian Child Welfare Act is an extension of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, which aims to protect Native children by giving their tribe and family opportunities to participate

While many across the state are planting or branding, some Farmers Union members traveled to Washington, D.C., May 5-7 to advocate for the family farm and ranch during Farmers Union’s Week of Action. This year’s theme was “For Farmers Sake,” with one of the goals being to encourage Congress to pass a farm bill, but not just any farm bill. America’s farm bill expired two years ago,

After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy recently announced a report from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, a few leading agriculture groups in Montana expressed their concern. The report suggests that environmental chemical have a potential impact to children’s chronic disease. The chemicals include pesticides used in the ag industry. “Farmers are identified