ment debit card to make three separate withdrawals totaling $487.50 from an ATM located at the Buckhorn Bar in Poplar. When confronted about these unauthorized withdrawals, Mathison claimed the funds were used to pay for meals for other firefighters despite there being no fire department meeting or event at that time. When Mathison was interviewed, he admitted making the ATM withdrawals and acknowledged

Cities and towns in Roosevelt County experienced small population declines between 2023 and 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Wolf Point’s population decreased from 2,554 in 2023 to 2,522 in 2024, a decrease of 32 residents. Poplar also went down in population slightly from 731 in 2023 to 722 in 2024. On the eastern side of the county, Culbertson saw its population decrease from

The chairman of Montana’s Essential Air Service task force is optimistic despite another threat to flights in several of eastern Montana’s rural communities including Wolf Point. “I have to remain that way,” Walt McNutt of Sidney said of Essential Air Service flights staying in Montana. “I’ve been through a lot of bills that were never introduced.” H.R. 3935 includes decreasing

By Bill Vander Weele Rodeos, parades and a variety of other entertainment are looked forward to as Wolf Point prepares to celebrate its 102nd annual Wild Horse Stampede on July 10-12. The list of activities actually begins on Wednesday, July 9, with the third annual Wild Horse Ranch Rodeo at the Marvin Brookman Stadium. A pitchfork fondue meal costs $20 and begins at 4:30 p.m. in Big Sky Corral.

The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office responded to 60 calls from June 30 to July 7. The calls included the following: June 30 Deputy/coroner responded to a residence in Wolf Point where a man had died from natural causes. Deputies assisted the Wolf Point Police Department and Fort Peck Tribes Department of Law and Justice at the Roosevelt County Library in Wolf Point regarding a female

( Publisher’s Note: The following blotter includes the activities of the Wolf Point police and fire department June 30 through July 6.) The WPPD had the following activity: abandoned auto, one; accident/hit and run, one; alarm/business: two; animal/ other, one; animal/stray, one; assault, four; assault/ aggravated, one; assault/simple, one; assault with weapon, one; assistance required/