The Roosevelt County commissioners approved a bid from Bishop Inc. for gravel during a meeting held on Tuesday, Sept. 14. The county received bids from three different companies. Fike Crushing’s bid was 13,500 tons of one-inch minus crushed gravel for the amount of $4.50 per ton for the Schagunn Pitt. Total bid was $60,750. The bid from Bishop was 13,500 tons of one-inch minus crushed

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has announced that a $585,609 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services planning grant is heading to Montana to help expand around-the-clock community- based mobile crisis intervention services for Medicaid beneficiaries. Tester secured the funding — which will connect Montanans experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis to a behavioral

( Publisher’s Note: Each week, the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office distributes an inmate roster with the names of everyone incarcerated and persons booked into the jail during the previous week and does not necessarily mean there is a new charge or conviction.) Prisoners housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center over the past week included: Milton Alexander Jr., 39, Poplar, hold for

The Thomas and Corinne Nyquist Foundation is now accepting applications from nonprofit organizations in the Bainville, Culbertson, and Froid communities, and in New Paltz, N.Y. Grants are given annually to eligible 503(c) private or governmental nonprofit organizations in these communities and only in these communities for small projects, events or items to be purchased that will benefit the

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., blasted the Biden Administration’s decision on Monday, Sept. 20, to keep the northern border with Canada closed for at least another month. “I am bitterly disappointed to learn that the Biden Administration has once again decided to unnecessarily keep Montana’s northern land border closed for at least another month,” Tester said. “There is no good reason

A retirement/welcome party is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 9, at the Stagecoach in Culbertson beginning at 4 p.m. The “out with the old, in with the new“ event will celebrate the retirement of Mike Machart and Jeff Thorpe and welcome two new employees to town. Machart and Thorpe both began working for Nemont in 1994. According to Mary Machart, Mike and Jeff still had to climb telephone