The chairman of Montana’s Essential Air Service task force is optimistic despite another threat to flights in several of eastern Montana’s rural communities including Wolf Point. “I have to remain that way,” Walt McNutt of Sidney said of Essential Air Service flights staying in Montana. “I’ve been through a lot of bills that were never introduced.” H.R. 3935 includes decreasing

By Bill Vander Weele Rodeos, parades and a variety of other entertainment are looked forward to as Wolf Point prepares to celebrate its 102nd annual Wild Horse Stampede on July 10-12. The list of activities actually begins on Wednesday, July 9, with the third annual Wild Horse Ranch Rodeo at the Marvin Brookman Stadium. A pitchfork fondue meal costs $20 and begins at 4:30 p.m. in Big Sky Corral.

The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office responded to 60 calls from June 30 to July 7. The calls included the following: June 30 Deputy/coroner responded to a residence in Wolf Point where a man had died from natural causes. Deputies assisted the Wolf Point Police Department and Fort Peck Tribes Department of Law and Justice at the Roosevelt County Library in Wolf Point regarding a female

( Publisher’s Note: The following blotter includes the activities of the Wolf Point police and fire department June 30 through July 6.) The WPPD had the following activity: abandoned auto, one; accident/hit and run, one; alarm/business: two; animal/ other, one; animal/stray, one; assault, four; assault/ aggravated, one; assault/simple, one; assault with weapon, one; assistance required/