Poplar is the place to be this weekend as parades, rodeos and a horseshoe tournament are all part of Wild West Days from Thursday, June 11, through Sunday, June 14. Parades are scheduled to start at 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. This year’s theme is “Dazed and Confused.” Rodeo action is set to being on 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the Poplar Saddle Club. After a NRA rodeo on

The Wolf Point School Board approved the hiring of five individuals during a brief meeting held on Thursday, May 28. Hired were Cathryn Rose Razon at Northside teacher, Eric Peterson as Southside physical education teacher, Rolinda Yazzie as Northside summer school paraprofessional, Prescilla Mendez as Southside summer school substitute teacher and Tiffany Sietsema as Southside summer school

The North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified the man killed in a crash on Highway 2 east of Palermo, N.D., on Monday, June 1. According to the report, 22-year-old Mark Eliason of New Town, N.D., was driving a GMC Sierra south on 67th Avenue Northwest when he failed to yield to an eastbound Ford Expedition on Highway 2. Eliason is originally from Glasgow. Eliason was pronounced dead at

The Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board held their regular full board meeting June 8. The Fort Peck Tribal Head Start Director and program administration were approved to initiate, prepare, submit and pursue any and all administrative appeals, responses, objections, requests for reconsideration, hearings, negotiations or related actions necessary to the challenge the Office of Head Starts proposed

Runoff continues to be below average in the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa. Below-normal precipitation, dry soil conditions in the western portions of the basin, and an overall lack of mountain snowpack resulted in a May runoff of 1.6 million acrefeet, 46 percent of average. “The dry weather conditions persisted across the upper basin during May,” said John Remus, chief of

past five years. His opinion is that if an individual is given everything including land and equipment that they still couldn’t make a living today. “The answer is commodity prices being such that you can weather a storm even when you have drought conditions,” Toavs said.