The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks toll-free hotline for reporting wildlife poaching, property damage, and violations of fish and game laws is in operation 24 hours a day. TIP-MONT is the acronym for Turn in Poachers - Montana. Poaching includes: •hunting out of season or at night using spotlights. •taking more than one’s legal limit. •nonresidents who purchase resident

Jenna Presser has been hired as the new IT coordinator for Roosevelt County. She replaces Cole Hanks, who is now working for the Wolf Point School District. It was noted that Presser has two years of computer science education and is a good fit for the county. Shelley Arndt was promoted to deputy county treasurer. Commissioners approved a pay raise for treasurer employee Carly Tattoo.

U.S. Senator Steve Daines announced Sept. 3 he will introduce a bill to award the 13 Congressional Gold Medals to American service members who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks in Kabul on Aug. 26. “The 13 brave service members we lost in Afghanistan following the withdrawal will forever be remembered as heroes. Their service and ultimate sacrifice to protect American lives, our freedoms

Herman Munoz Esparaza of Minot, N.D., is facing 11 charges including three felony charges after a vehicle chase that went from Wolf Point to Valley County on Aug. 27. The felony charges are criminal possession of dangerous drugs (meth) with the intent to distribute, criminal possession of dangerous drugs (heroin) and use or possession of property subject to criminal forfeiture. Misdemeanor

( 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.) Prisoners housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center over the past week included: Brittany Brien, 28, Poplar, hold for other

The Fort Peck Tribes released a statement Sept. 3 explaining a stay of the civil lawsuit filed by the Tribes against BP Construction. The Tribal Executive Board agreed to a stay of the civil lawsuit against BP on Aug. 26. According to the statement, the stay was requested by BP’s legal counsel to protect the contractor’s Fifth Amendment rights during an ongoing federal investigation into the

There are 34 active cases in Roosevelt County as of Friday, Sept. 3. The number includes 12 new positive cases and two current hospitalizations. Roosevelt County Health Department received the first positive Delta variant report for a Roosevelt County COVID-19 case on Aug. 26. Delta is highly transmissable and is currently the most common COVID-19 variant circulating in the United States.