In summer 2019, Bigger Sky Kids received a one-to-one matching grant from the Montana Arts Council to bring artist-in-community Cathryn McIntyre back for 2019-2020 to teach studio mastery for beginning and intermediate artists. In January, BSK was pleased to learn that Montana-Dakota Utilities will match that $3,900 grant. BSK recently concluded an impressive show of art created by students

The Wolf Point 100 Club will be hosting a variety show at the Wolf Point High School auditorium Saturday, Feb. 29. Planned entertainment includes performances by the Eastern Montana Gymnastics team. Students from WPHS speech and drama are tentatively scheduled. Entrants from the Bigger Sky Kids after-school program will perform a dance routine and the Lefse Ladies will perform a skit. Robert

Mardi Gras entices revelers from all over the world. Notoriously celebrated in New Orleans, La., and Rio de Janeiro as “Carnival,” the famed culmination of the carnival season is a lively display of pageantry, food, festivals and general merrymaking. Mardi Gras dates back centuries to the ancient Roman custom of indulging before a period of fasting. Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuesday,” traces

Democrat Raph Graybill visited Wolf Point’s Sherman Inn Sunday, Feb. 16. The candidate for attorney general has pledged to back Montanans on health care prices, in the fight against methamphetamine and for clean, open government. Campaign spokesman Tyler Campbell told the Northern Plains Independent that the meeting in Wolf Point was attended by legislators, community activists, faith

Roosevelt County Attorney Austin Knudsen told the Northern Plains Independent that he’s confident about his bid for attorney general, despite being out-fundraised in combined totals by primary opponent Jon Bennion. He said the numbers aren’t indicative of overall support. “He [Bennion] got into the race before I did,” said Knudsen. “We’re doing about the same quarter-to-quarter.”