28 May 2020

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Play Ball!

Play Ball!


Uncertainty over youth sports this summer gave way to tentative baseball and softball schedules for Wolf Point Youth Sports with seasons starting Tuesday, June 2. The decision late last week to move forward with seasons followed two successful signups held at the concession stand at the Borge Community Park ballfields Tuesday, May 19, and Thursday, May 21. With Poplar’s youth sports program

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21 May 2020

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Meat For The Mind

Meat For The Mind


Native News, Mike Matthews was 46 when he saw his first free-roaming buffalo. It was in the 1980s, but he still remembers how the animal wandered just north of the Missouri River that flows through the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. That bison was among the first of its kind back on the Northern Great Plains after a man-made extinction that saw the animal disappear from the region for more than

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Celebrating Area Senior Spring Athletes

Celebrating Area Senior Spring Athletes


This week, the Northern Plains Independent continues highlighting the seniors who would have competed in spring sports at area high schools if the COVID-19 pandemic had not shuttered schools across the country. Three seniors would have participated in the Poplar High School tennis program. They are Betty Bear, Chloe Belton and Kwyn Colgan. Two Poplar seniors would have competed in golf: Coy

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Yellow Jackets Moving Forward  Without Legion Sponsorship

Yellow Jackets Moving Forward Without Legion Sponsorship


The Wolf Point Yellow Jackets baseball team was practicing Monday, May 18, one week after the American Legion National Organization in Indianapolis, Ind., announced the nationwide cancellation of the American Legion Baseball 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The action by the Legion does not preclude teams from playing this summer, provided they do not use the American Legion name.

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