( Publisher’s Note: Each week, the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office distributes an inmate roster with the names of persons incarcerated at the jail and does not necessarily mean there is a new charge or conviction.) Prisoners housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center included: Terance Aimsback, 35, Heart Butte, hold for other agency. Shawn Anderson, 45, Plentywood, criminal possession

A Sidney man who admitted to trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine in the community after law enforcement seized more than six pounds of the drug from his car was sentenced on Wednesday, May 3, to 15 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. Markel Dean Brown, 60, pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to possess with

U.S. Sens. Steve Daines and Jon Tester of Montana, members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, announced the passage of their bipartisan Senate resolution marking May 5, as National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. “On May 5, the day Hanna Harris would have celebrated her 31st birthday, we take a moment to reflect on her and the far too many other

Roosevelt County commissioners agreed to continue having the county be served by JPT Health Insurance during their weekly meeting on Tuesday, May 2. The increase for the insurance is 5.5 percent this year. “It’s been about 5 percent every year,” Commissioner Gordon Oelkers said of increases. The insurance plan features a $500 deductible and $1,000 maximum out of pocket. County

Two new school board members were voted into office during Wolf Point’s election on Tuesday, May 2. These results are unofficial and have yet to be canvassed. In district 5, Trenton Wemmer received 44 votes to defeat long-time trustee Lanette Clark with 35 votes. Prior to the election, Wemmer said, “I feel I’m a good candidate because kids are important to me! I think with being

The Wolf Point School District was urged to add a home/school coordinator at the high school and junior high school during the Title VI parent committee meeting held on Thursday, May 4. Committee secretary Imogene Lilley said, as a truancy judge, she deals well with the home/school coordinators and principals at Northside and Southside elementary schools. The high school and junior high schools

Voters in the Culbertson Hospital District approved a 9 mill levy request for emergency medical services during an election on Tuesday, May 2. Unofficial results were 325 in favor of the request and 123 votes against the request. The mill levy is expected to be permanent. The hospital currently receives 3 mills annually. The request will be an addition to that amount. Roosevelt County

Montana’s Trail to the Stars has been awarded the Marketing Campaign of the Year award for its outstanding tourism-related marketing campaign executed within the past calendar year. The project is a collaboration among Central Montana, Southeast Montana and Montana’s Missouri River Country along with Montana State Parks to promote and celebrate the region’s wide-open dark skies, which

As a champion for public lands, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., joined the bipartisan Lake Access Keeping Economies Strong Act that ensures fees collected from visitors to the Fort Peck dam and reservoir are retained and used by local U.S. Army Corps of Engineers units to improve Montana recreation opportunities. “Montana’s public lands and waters are critical to the thousands of jobs created