For many Montanans, Medicare is an essential part of staying healthy and financially secure. What many people don’t realize is that one of the best ways to protect themselves from Medicare fraud, errors, and identity theft is to regularly review their Medicare Summary Notices or Explanation of Benefi ts. Why Checking Your Medicare Statements Matters Your Medicare Summary Notice (for Original

Wolf Point Congregate Meals Aug. 13: Swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes, carrots and coconut cake. Aug. 18: Pizza, broccoli salad and salted caramel brownies. Aug. 20: Barbecue chicken tenders, macaroni salad, potato wedges and fruit salad. *** Scobey Aug. 17: Oven-fried cod, baked taters, veggies, fruits and dessert. Aug. 18: Meatloaf, taters, fruits, veggies and buns. Aug.

There will be a program for ages 9 to 18 on Tuesday, Aug. 18, and Thursday, Aug. 20, from 3:306:30 p.m. at the Roosevelt County Library. The library will provide students with a spiral notebook they can keep and use at school. This program is open to boys and girls who would like to make a special notebook for themselves. Students can “Deck out a Notebook” any way they choose. The library

Scobey School Aug. 19: Breakfast: Pancake- sausage wraps and fruits. Lunch: Chicken nuggets, fries, corn and fruit. Aug. 20: Breakfast: Cheese omelets, toasts, bacon and fruits. Lunch: Pizza sticks, green salad, muffins and fruit. Aug. 21: Breakfast: French toast sticks, sausages and fruits. Lunch: Mini corn dogs, pretzel bites, nacho cheese, green peas and fruit. *** Frontier School

Fort Peck Tribes’ chairman Floyd Azure doesn’t expect the Tribes’ housing commissioners to be reinstated anytime in the near future. Azure said preliminary results of an audit regarding the housing commissioners were presented to Tribal Executive Board members last week. Azure said he hasn’t reviewed the report, but he’s heard that “it doesn’t look good at all.” He explained

Gov. Greg Gianforte has announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently designated five Montana counties as primary natural disaster areas due to drought. In a letter received from USDA Undersecretary Brooke Appleton, the governor was notified that the following counties were designated, having experienced severe or extreme drought during the growing season: Dawson, Richland, Roosevelt,

Wolf Point Congregate Meals Aug. 6: Cube steaks with onion gravy, baked potatoes, brussel sprouts and banana pudding with wafers. Aug. 11: Turkey club sandwich, baby bakers and cookies. Aug. 13: Swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes, carrots, coconut cake.

Car guys and gals tend to be passionate about their vehicles and their love of the open road, and that might be one reason why the average summer vacation road trip is hundreds of miles. Though there's more to a driving vacation than a love of the open road, a recent survey from Road Runner Auto Transport found that 42 percent of respondents planned to drive between 200 and 499 miles for their