ties around the reservation have rescinded burn bans. Green grass today is not a license to act free-or-easy with fire. Dead grass is still tall. Outlooks still predict a summer hotter and drier than normal. If you light any fire, you must stay with the ashes until every warm spot is dead out, cold to the touch. Have plenty of water and machinery ready to extinguish any fire before you light

Some coaches were rehired and new teachers were hired to highlight the Wolf Point School board meeting on Monday, May 24. High school head coaches recommended and hired included Troy Blount for boys’ basketball, Nellie Garfield for cheerleading, Dan Horsmon for tennis, R.C. Page for track and Rodney Paulson for golf. Hired as teachers were Frank Benson for physical education, Amy Benson

The Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board started their meeting with a traditional song. Both Chairman Floyd Azure and councilwoman Patt Runs Through expressed in the previous meeting that it was a sorely missed portion of the bi-weekly board meeting. The board considered a motion to change the language about marriage in the code of criminal justice from “a man and a woman” to “persons.”

( Publisher’s Note: The following blotter includes the activities of the Wolf Point police and fire department for May 10-16. All those cited or arrested are presumed innocent.) Citations were issued to: May 17 Concetta Toavs, 26, female, 700 Second Avenue North, disorderly conduct, tribal court. May 18 James Murphy, 51, male, 500 block of Dawson Street, criminal possession of drug paraphernalia,