The Montana Department of Agriculture is facilitating pesticide disposal events in its Eastern District during the week of Sept. 19. Annual pesticide waste collection events have collected close to 750,000 pounds of pesticide waste from more than 1,800 participants since the program’s inception in 1994. Area Pesticide waste collection dates and locations include: •Tuesday, Sept. 20,

State and local public health officials are reporting the season’s first West Nile virus detections in positive mosquito samples in Dawson and Lewis and Clark counties. The first horse infected with WNV this season was also confirmed earlier last week in Lewis and Clark County. To date, no human cases of WNV have been identified this season. Increased risk of WNV infection in humans

Once again, the Thomas and Corinne Nyquist Foundation is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations in Bainville, Culbertson and Froid, and in New Paltz, N.Y., for funding for small community projects with a deadline for applications of Nov. 1. Calls for Nyquist Foundation grants are made once a year, and grants are awarded to eligible 503(c) private or governmental nonprofit organizations

The four County Farm Bureaus in MFBF District 6 — Richland, McCone, Dawson- Wibaux and Prairie — invite you to celebrate a successful harvest (or one in the making!) at their first ever Farm Bureau Fall Fest Oct. 8. People can come enjoy a good meal and hear from keynote speaker, and popular ag advocate, Amanda Radke. Radke is a fifth-generation rancher from Mitchell, S.D., who has dedicated