A COVID-19 outbreak could last for a long time in your community. Depending on the severity of the outbreak, public health officials may recommend community actions designed to help keep people healthy, reduce exposures to COVID-19 and slow the spread of the disease. Local public health officials may make recommendations appropriate to your local situation. Creating a household plan can help protect

( Publisher’s Note: The following blotter includes the activities of the Wolf Point police and fire department March 2-8. All those cited or arrested are presumed innocent.) Citations were issued to: March 3 Robert Jackson, 28, male, 500 block of Fallon Street, resisting arrest, criminal possession of dangerous drugs, criminal possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing a peace officer,

Montana Free Press People have been parsing the human lifespan into a taxonomy of ages forever. Aristotle proposed three categories: youthful, prime of life, and elderly. Two thousand years later, Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man carved human chronology into seven slices, with the body’s final frailty circling back to the original oblivion of infancy. And, in the 1980s, British historian

Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board member Jestin Dupree shared news about a new Indian Health Services building and building renovation in Poplar Feb. 27. In a social media post, Dupree stated: “Today, the IHS Facilities Director came in and shared some information about the new building that will be built to the west of our current IHS clinic in Poplar. There are two old houses there, but they

The Roosevelt County commissioners held their regular public meeting Tuesday, March 3. Commissioners Gordon Oelkers, Duane Nygaard and Gary Macdonald were in attendance. Minutes were approved for the month of February and the Feb. 18 regular meeting. During the public comment period, Bill Juve asked the commissioners about legislation to do away with Daylight Savings. Oelkers, Nygaard and

In the world of ever changing information, the Roosevelt County Health Department would like to provide our communities with as much information as possible concerning the novel coronavirus discovered in China mid-December 2019. The current name, given by the World Health Organization, is COVID-19. The virus was first detected in Wuhan City in the Hubei province of China. There, the virus