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

Names like John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and, of course, John Hancock might instantly come to mind when pondering the men who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But what about the remaining signatories to the founding document of the United States? According to the National Archives, 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence, and even historians and armchair

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout is a contemporary fiction that takes place in Massachusetts 2024. Artie Dam, is a teacher of 11th grade history and has been for decades. He was even named Teacher of the Year once. But the climate is changing for the country, it pulls him down, and the kids seem to feel it also. He is 57 years old, depressed, thinking about suicide, until a near miss

the new curriculum including $36,080.86 for HMH Education’s science dimensions at Southside, $21,224 for McGraw Hill’s impact social studies at Southside, $7,429 for Mc-Graw Hill’s impact social studies at Northside and $12,433 for McGraw Hill’s junior high world history.

The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Cultural Preservation Department, staffed by Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, is hosting a Carlisle Boarding School Repatriation Awareness Walk on Friday, July 31, to mark the return of the remains of Christine Redstone, Peter Howe and Richard Morgan to the reservation. The walk will begin at 7 a.m. at Porcupine Creek in Nashua at the western edge

The Optimist Club of Wolf Point is urging area residents to again donate in the group’s “Fill A Box” program. This year’s event is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. One change this year is the event is being moved to the gazebo at Sherman Park. “It’s cooler down there and we have access to electricity,” Optimist member Carol Neutgens explained. School