Poplar News

WOLF POINT - The Lloyd couple who sold marijuana-laced treats to kids in June at Wild West Days in Poplar was sentenced and fined in District Court earlier this month.

GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls couple said a woman confessed to them on several occasions in 2005 and 2006 to badly beating a girl in her hometown of Poplar more than 25 years earlier.

Fort Belknap College announced the creation of its new Nee-tha-hatsa-nak/Wa'Uspe-Wicakiya teacher education program.

HELENA - Barry Beach, the Poplar man who was convicted in 1984 of murdering 17-year-old Kim Nees on the Fort Peck Reservation, will get another chance to try to prove his innocence in court.

POPLAR - Kevin Loren Longtree, 45, died Monday at his home in Poplar. The coroner has not determined the cause of death.

POPLAR - Shelly Rae Kirn, 33, of Poplar, a lifelong Poplar resident who enjoyed attending her son's sports and school activities, shopping and having family movie nights, died of complications from pneumonia Sunday at the Billings Clinic.

Rose Marie Harden Welch, 63, of Great Falls and formerly of Wolf Point, died of natural causes Tuesday at her home.

Northeast Montana Health Services received the 2009 Innovation in Health Care Award from the Montana Health Care Association for NEMHSa tele-pharmacies. This year marks the 75th anniversary of Montana Health Care Association.

Write-in candidate Greg Norgaard beat out two candidates to be Poplar's mayor. With 115 votes, he handily defeated Theresa Murray and Vance Christiansen whose names were on the ballot.

POPLAR - Incumbent Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribal Chairman A.T. "Rusty" Stafne will be sworn into office today along with 14 other candidates who won seats in the tribe's bi-annual election Saturday.

On November 7th there will be an MMA amateur fight card in Poplar Montana. It will be the the first such event ever showcased in this small town on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

On its current pace, the Fort Peck/Dry Prairie Regional Water Project will have spent the $40 million in recovery act money it was allocated a few months before the September 2011 deadline.

WOLF POINT - More than 40 crewmembers worked through the night in hopes of reopening a rail line today after 13 cars from a BNSF Railway Co.

WOLF POINT - Lois Fern Reddies, 75, died of natural causes Tuesday at her home in Wolf Point.

Fort Peck Reservation voters will elect their tribal council and consider significant changes to their constitution, including creating a separate judicial branch, in next month's election.

WOLF POINT - Donna Mae "Bonnie" Nelson, 74, of Wolf Point, a homemaker who was active in Blue Sky Ministries, died of natural causes Saturday in Wolf Point.

BROCKTON - Mathew James Big Talk Sr., 62, whose Indian name means "Brave Bear," and who had worked for A&S Tribal Industries and as a custodian at Brockton School and enjoyed hunting, fishing and making Native American ceremonial items, died of complications from heart disease Monday at a Poplar hospital.

WOLF POINT - Two men killed in car crashes last week in Roosevelt County have been identified.

An open house is set to for Saturday, Aug. 15 to celebrate the multimillion dollar renovation of Wolf Point's Trinity Hospital.

An open house is set to for Saturday, Aug. 15 to celebrate the multimillion dollar renovation of Wolf Point's Trinity Hospital.