Both the new playground equipment at Northside Elementary School and Southside Elementary School will be ready when students begin classes this fall. Shane Reed, Wolf Point School District’s facilities director, said the playground at Southside is completed. “It’s installed and ready to go” Reed said last week. “There are just a few maintenance issues like leveling the ground.”

Area residents received information about appraisal notices from representatives of the Department of Revenue Property Assessment Division during a meeting at the Wolf Point Senior Center on Wednesday, July 26. Liz Franz, regional manager, conducted the meeting. Also in attendance were Michelle Mattick and appraiser Michael Carney. An hour-long presentation from the department explained

Youngsters (from left) Tristina Jackson, 9, Robert Jackson, 6, and Dyson Johnson, 8, try out some of the new playground equipment at Southside Elementary School last week. (Photo by Bill Vander Weele)

Visiting author Abby Blaskovich entertained children during a story hour presentation at the Roosevelt County Library in Wolf Point on Tuesday, July 19. Blaskovich is the author of Praise All Ways - A Children’s Guide to Praise All the Time With a Little Rhyme. She explained to the children that she enjoyed reading when she was a child, but she didn’t plan to become a writer. A couple

Wolf Point resident Caleb Gourneau is frustrated. He is attempting to get a military uniform back to a family or proper authority, but he isn’t having any success. He explained that a contractor for the Fort Peck Housing Authority came across the uniform when removing items from a house. Gourneau said one of the workers told him, “Look at what they are making me do to our veterans.”