Great Northern Development Corporation will host a meeting at Doc’Z pub in Wolf Point on Monday, Dec. 5, from 4-5 p.m., to share area residents’ vision for tourism in northeast Montana. The “tourism talk” will be an opportunity to share your thoughts on challenges and opportunities for tourism in your community. For more information, contact Tori at 406-653-2590 ext. 206.

Naomi Elizabeth Kling was born Nov. 3 at 5:52 a.m. to Melesa and Brad Kling of Saint Marie at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow. She joins sisters Allison and Mackenzie and brother Haidyn at home. Grandparents are Kelly and Shane, Tiffani and Mark and Jerrilee and Richard of Saint Marie.

Wolf Point Elks Lodge *1764 will conduct their annual memorial service on Sunday Dec. 4, at 2 p.m. in the upstairs ballroom. This annual service honors the memory of Elks members who have passed away during the past year — as well as remembering those Elk members who have gone on before. Wolf Point Elks Lodge officers will perform the memorial ritual. Following the service, there will

The Montana Board of Public Education plans to keep existing ratios between students and librarians, school counselors and superintendents — contrary to the Office of Public Instruction’s recommendation to eliminate the minimum requirements. The board also plans to retain ratios between students and principals, which OPI had recommended changing. However, at a meeting last week about

A sense of deja vu is overtaking the U.S. railroad industry as labor leaders and major railroad representatives try to figure out how to avoid a strike that could bring freight and passenger trains to a halt in the middle of the busy holiday shipping season. It’s a scenario eerily similar to one that played out just over two months ago, when White House officials helped broker an 11th-hour

The Nashua School Special all-mail ballot election was held on Tuesday, Nov. 22. A total of 586 ballots were sent out and 259 ballots were returned, with 162 individuals voting for allowing the Nashua School District to purchase the teacher residences. Of the votes return, 97 individuals voted against the purchase of the teacherages. With the levy passing, the Nashua School board has been

Northeast Montana Health Services Charitable Foundation has received a $3,000 grant from the Sample Foundation in Billings. Brandi Lynn Wilkinson, executive director of the foundation, said the money will go toward the purchase of a recently acquired transport van for Faith Home. The 2008 Chevy Uplander was purchased from a local family and features a 750-pound lift. Senior and long-term care