The Wolf Point High School speech, debate and drama teams are back in live action this year. Each team took were six competitors to the season opener meet this past weekend to compete against schools from Class AA to Class C. Wolf Point had three competitors place in the top eight: Daniel Sears and Del Eymard placed sixth as a duo in humorous theater and Audrey Weinberger placed seventh in mime.

The Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted a clarification to the muzzleloader heritage hunting season for deer and elk. The commission approved the regulations for the season at its meeting on Aug. 20. The clarification states that any unused license-permit valid on the last day of the general season (i.e., Nov. 28, 2021) would be valid during the muzzleloader heritage season (Dec. 11 to 19,

The Governor’s Office of Community Service, Reach Higher Montana, and Montana Campus Compact are pleased to announce applications are now being accepted for the 2022 Youth Serve Montana Scholarship. The Youth Serve Montana Scholarship was created to promote volunteerism among high school students. Funds are available through support from Montana Campus Compact, a network of Montana campuses

Humanities Montana’s deadline for regular and three-year sustaining grants, as well as research fellowships, is Dec. 20. Opportunity grants will continue to be provided with a rolling submission deadline. Regular grants provide support for requests of over $1,000. Types of projects supported include book festivals, conferences, exhibits, lectures, media projects, museum assistance, oral

Tammy Wham can’t get her hands on canned corn or whole grain muffins. Both are staples in the public school kitchen in Ennis, where Wham serves as kitchen manager — or, she quips, “head lunch lady.” Wham and her staff serve breakfast and lunch to roughly 340 K-12 students daily, but numerous menu items and ingredients have become difficult or impossible to acquire this fall due to national

The Fort Peck Tribes executive board gathered for their bimonthly meeting on Monday, Nov. 8. One of the first actions of the new board was to approve a resolution directing the Fort Peck Reservation to return to Phase 1 COVID restrictions for a two week period. The board ordered the new restrictions on Nov 2 during a committee hearing with a seven signature resolution. The resolution passed on

The Wolf Point School board stressed that it’s taking the increase of COVID cases in Roosevelt County seriously and school officials are monitoring the situation daily. During the school board meeting on Monday, Nov. 8, superintendent of schools Loverty Erickson said that Southside Elementary School will remain closed until Nov. 15, due to a high number of cases. Erickson noted the date may