By James Walling Culbertson council members Abe Rumsey and Carl Donaldson and Mayor Todd Gabriel were sworn in by clerk Terri Merrill at the Dec. 11 regular meeting. Rumsey represents Ward 1 and Donaldson is located in Ward II. Jan, Fred and Della Wix attended the meeting in hopes of gaining approval to donate a new convection oven to the Culbertson Senior Citizens group for lunches and meal

The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office responded to 55 calls from Dec. 5-11. Dec. 5 Deputies assisted the Wolf Point Police Department with a report of a suspicious person on Custer Street. The Sherman Inn called in regards to an adult male. Deputies assisted WPPD and the ambulance service for the man suffering with chest pain. Deputies assisted the WPPD regarding a report of a fight

Dale Robert Fowler of Wolf Point is facing two counts including the felony charge of criminal possession of dangerous drugs. He also has been charged with criminal possession of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor. If convicted of the possession charge, maximum penalties are five years in the state prison and a fine of $5,000. Fowler is scheduled to appear in district court on Dec. 13.

Despite being told repeatedly that it would lead to instant litigation and the likely rescinding of any hunting and fishing rights for non-tribal members on Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes lands, all eight Republican legislators on the Environmental Quality Council voted last week to support a ballot initiative that seeks to give landowners in Montana broad access to hunt deer, elk and

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is seeking to fill a vacancy on an advisory council that monitors upland game bird enhancement program activities. The vacancy must be filled by someone who resides in in Region 3, southwest Montana. Council members represent all FWP administrative regions and include upland game bird hunters, landowners, upland game bird biologists and others who have conservation

As a direct result of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.,secured $500,000 in Corridor Identification and Development funds for the Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority to develop a comprehensive passenger rail plan to reinstate the historic North Coast Hiawatha Amtrak route through southern Montana. Selection for Corridor ID funds designates the North

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development in Montana state director Kathleen Williams announced last week that the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana became one of the first nationwide to receive a $191,000 grant through the Agricultural Marketing Service Indigenous Animals Harvesting and Meat Processing Grant Program. This grant program is