Valley County Sheriff Tom Boyer told the Northern Plains Independent that authorities recovered a body from Fort Peck Lake on Sunday, March 8. Boyer said the victim was recovered from the lake after an ice fishing accident over the weekend. According to Boyer, Ronald George Spomer, 79, of Cody, Wyo., was fishing alone when his all terrain vehicle fell through the ice. Spomer was not participating

A COVID-19 outbreak could last for a long time in your community. Depending on the severity of the outbreak, public health officials may recommend community actions designed to help keep people healthy, reduce exposures to COVID-19 and slow the spread of the disease. Local public health officials may make recommendations appropriate to your local situation. Creating a household plan can help protect

( Publisher’s Note: The following blotter includes the activities of the Wolf Point police and fire department March 2-8. All those cited or arrested are presumed innocent.) Citations were issued to: March 3 Robert Jackson, 28, male, 500 block of Fallon Street, resisting arrest, criminal possession of dangerous drugs, criminal possession of drug paraphernalia and obstructing a peace officer,

Montana Free Press People have been parsing the human lifespan into a taxonomy of ages forever. Aristotle proposed three categories: youthful, prime of life, and elderly. Two thousand years later, Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man carved human chronology into seven slices, with the body’s final frailty circling back to the original oblivion of infancy. And, in the 1980s, British historian