Maybe you’ve never heard of it, but this past weekend, some insect-infatuated communities around the country celebrated National Honey Bee Day. Originally established as “Honey Bee Awareness Day” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2009, the holiday recognizes the crucial role that more than 2.99 million bee colonies in the U.S. play in pollinating more than $15 billion worth of crops,

The final local powwow of the 2025 season took place in Poplar over the weekend, beginning with camping day on Thursday. Poplar Indian Days saw three days of grand entries, excellent weather, strong attendance and a long list of specials. “Poplar Indian Days is definitely progressing in size,” said Stacie FourStar. “The drums, dancers and attendance was remarkable! There were over 20 specials,

Superintendent Keith Hays believes this year’s increase in students results in the larger amount of students in the nearly 60-year history of Frontier School. “We will be pushing 160,” Hays said of the number of students. “We have some classes that have been full for several weeks because we have a cap of 24 per classroom. We have 6-10 on a waiting list.” Last school year ended

Wolf Point Superintendent of Schools David Perkins reports that the first few days of school went very well last week. “Pretty smooth actually,” Perkins said. He added that the high school always deals with a few scheduling changes at the start of a semester. This school year marks the first that Southside Elementary features only pre-k through second graders and Northside Elementary

Wolf Point High School junior Kailayla Villaluz is back to being a pretty busy student after a long hospital stay with a rare disease this summer. She was diagnosed with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), Group 1. The condition affects the arteries in the lungs and the right side of the heart. PAH has an estimated incidence of only two to four cases per million children. “I can