The Roosevelt County commissioners accepted the resignation of Rick Gilbert off the fair board during the meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 22. Gilbert of Culbertson has served a couple of terms, said Commissioner Gordon Oelkers. The county is advertising for the position to replace Gilbert on the five-member board. During the meeting, commissioners approved the reappointments for Dana Salivar

While the arrival of new vaccines for COVID-19 should enable a return to in-person events, the sheer mechanics of their mass distribution mean that early 2021 events are still primarily virtual. That’s certainly true for the fourth annual MonDak Agricultural Research Summit, typically held late in the year, but now moved online and converted to a webinar series, beginning Thursday, Jan. 14.

The U.S. Surgeon General expressed his concern for the impact of COVID to Native Americans during his visit to Montana last week. Vice Admiral Jerome Adams was scheduled to take part in the opening of a search testing site on the Fort Peck Reservation on Friday, Dec. 11, but his flight was canceled due to weather conditions. He spoke about COVID concerns during a press conference on Thursday,

U.S. Senators Steve Daines and Jon Tester today celebrated Senate passage of their bipartisan bill, the “Montana Water Rights Protection Act,” Dec. 21. The bill will permanently settle the century long CSKT water dispute, support Montana jobs, modernize rural infrastructure and protect the water rights of all Montanans. “After years of hard work, the U.S. Senate just passed our bipartisan