The Nyquist Foundation hosts a community student essay contest administered buy the Culbertson and Froid public libraries. Current high school students at Culbertson or Froid high schools can submit their essay for consideration at nyquistfdtn.org. Deadline is Feb. 28. The topic for the contest is “If you could introduce a new national holiday what would it be and why? How would it be celebrated?”

The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes will receive $815,808 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for its Special Diabetes Program for Indians. The federal funding totals $139 million and is heading to 302 tribal, urban and Indian Health Service clinics in 35 states. Montana has 13 recipients. Along with Fort Peck, other recipients include: * All Nations Health Center in

Seniors graduating this spring, students already in college and parents are reminded that the Brush Lake scholarship application forms are now available from local pastors currently with ELCA or LCMC affiliation or directly from the Brush Lake scholarship secretary Jandy Jorgensen. These scholarships are awarded from the available interest earned on the principle from the sale of the former