This year, the Roosevelt County DUI Task Force is offering a scholarship of $500 to any high school senior graduating in 2023 from a school within the boundaries of Roosevelt County. The focus of this year’s scholarship is to write an essay on how the student chooses to live above the influence of alcohol use, drug use, peer pressure, bullying or any other negative influences around them.

Titles newly available at the Culbertson Public Library in January include fiction by Ian McEwan and Iris Johansen, audiobooks on CD by Stephen King ( Fairy Tale) and Moiya McTier ( The Milky Way) and nonfiction from Paul Newman and Amy Bloom. Young adult titles include How to Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison and Man O’ War by Cory McCarthy. The full list of titles includes The Furrows

The Culbertson Town Council held its regular meeting Monday, Jan. 9. Conditional use permit applications for cannabis dispensaries were discussed by the council. The council discussed possible revenues available to municipalities and counties through the medical and recreational sales of cannabis. Jeremy Fadness with WWC Engineering said he would work on some ordinance language. The subject

House Speaker Pro-Tempore Rhonda Knudsen cited on Friday, Jan. 6, rising housing prices in Helena as reason to raise per diem rates an extra $39 for legislators’ lodging and meals. In a committee meeting, Knudsen said lawmakers were made aware during interim legislative council meetings that legislators coming into the 2023 session were experiencing difficulties obtaining housing. “While