National Newspaper Week is being celebrated for the 82nd annual year. The dates of recognition this year are Oct. 2-8. Few communities should know better than our own area when it comes to understanding the importance of newspapers. This newspaper’s publisher and owner, Darla Downs, spent countless hours to make sure state statute was followed regarding the county attorney’s election. Her

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in recent years about the death of local newspapers, those bastions of democracy and chroniclers of community. While the loss of any newspaper hurts the people they serve, residents of rural areas and small towns are hit especially hard when a newspaper shuts down. When a local newspaper closes, citizens lose impartial news and information about town and

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has recently received questions on Montana’s Stream Access Law and how it is applied across the state. For landowners and recreationists alike, it’s important to know about the law and understand how it applies to private land and water-based recreation. “The public has a right to enjoy water-based recreation on rivers and streams in Montana below the high-water

Ahead of fall public meetings, the Draft Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Annual Operating Plan for the 2023-2024 runoff season is now available for public comment. The Missouri River Water Management Division has made the draft 2023-2024 Annual Operating Plan available at: https:// www.nwd.usace.army.mil/ MRWM/Public-Meetings/. The public comment period on the draft plan will close

A Montana man was sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 26, to six years in prison on several felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting law enforcement, for his involvement in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Isaac Steve Sturgeon, 34, of Dillon, on Jan. 6, 2021, joined the mob on the Capitol grounds, eventually climbing through the inaugural stage scaffolding up to where police

Rural residents appreciate the maintenance people for mowing the grass on the county roads as the changing weather approaches. Fall has come. This brings harvest festivals in the community churches. The Lustre MB Church celebrates God’s faithfulness at its Harvest Festival Sunday, Oct. 1. The Lustre EMB Church will have Harvest Festival Oct. 8 and their speakers are Elwyn and Linda Goossen

The ever-growing field of Montana Republicans interested in running to represent the state’s eastern district in the U.S. House of Representatives now includes six potential candidates. Last week, two former state lawmakers, Joel Krautter and Ric Holden, announced their intentions to seek the seat in 2024. Like the handful of would-be contestants before them, both men said they would run only