Vol. 2 — No. 18 COPYRIGHT 2020 Culbertson, Montana, Thursday, April 30, 2020 Serving Eastern Roosevelt & Northern Richland Counties www.culbertsoncommunitynews.com News 75¢

Culbertson has a contested school board trustee election this May. Culbertson will have voting available from noon to 8 p.m. on May 5 at the school. Absentee ballots can be received from school clerk. Incumbents Luke Anderson and Eric Bergum are making re-election bids in Culbertson for three-year terms. Challengers are D.J. Hauge and Ian Walker. Bainville and Brockton canceled their trustee

Governor Steve Bullock announced a “phased re-opening” plan for Montana during a news conference April 22. Many retail businesses were allowed to open April 27. Churches were allowed to hold services Sunday. Restaurants, bars and casinos can reopen on May 4 with reduced capacity and an 11:30 p.m. closure time. Schools have the option to return to in-classroom instruction on May 7, but

While people are urged to stay home to help contain the spread of COVID-19, many are turning to a popular hobby – gardening. Working in a garden can help build up physical and mental strength while passing the time and making the trips to the grocery store less frequent. Baylor College of Medicine experts share important information on gardening. Gardening provides an abundance of health benefits

A whopping one million pages of Montana’s newspapers, and the stories they carried about lives, deaths and everything in between, are now available with the click of a few computer keys through a Montana Historical Society project. The Digitized Montana Newspapers project involves two free online resources that allows the public to search newspapers dating back to 1864. These titles come from

N ews Roosevelt County Aging Services is happy to report that we are able to continue to safely serve the older adults in our County during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though we are not able to have group gatherings in our Senior Centers (Bainville, Culbertson, Froid and Wolf Point), our Congregate Meals continue to operate at all 5 meal sites (Bainville, Culbertson, Froid, Poplar (Buckhorn),

oster ( Publisher’s Note: Each week, the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office distributes an inmate roster with the names of everyone incarcerated and persons booked into the jail during the previous week and does not necessarily mean there is a new charge or conviction.) As of April 28, 21 prisoners who were housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center. Prisoners included: Tala Beston,

tana, up from 437 on Tuesday, April 21. Of those cases, 356 are listed as recovered. There have been 61 total hospitalizations, with 10 hospitalizations listed as active. Fifteen people have died from the virus. Most are treating their symptoms at home. As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 28, a total of 13,191 tests had been completed. Williams County in North Dakota has reported 10 cases of COVID-19

The Roosevelt County Library Board met via Zoom April 18 at 10 a.m. Library chairperson Beth Hekkel, trustees Laurie Evans, Gloria Mason and Pat Henry and library director Andrea Hayes were in attendance. The minutes of the Feb. 1 board meeting were reviewed. Evans made a motion to accept the minutes as written, which passed. The board perused the statement of accounts for March 2020. There

Late last week, Roosevelt County recorded four new positive cases of COVID-19. The fourth case was a female aged 50-59 and was reported on Wednesday, April 15. The fifth and sixth cases were reported Thursday, April 16, and were a female aged 20-29 and a female aged 60-69. The seventh case, a male aged 70-79, was reported Monday, April 20. The case investigation is ongoing for the recent cases,