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From the MSU News Service BOZEMAN — The Montana 4-H Foundation recently announced that it has awarded nearly $40,000 in scholarships to 45 graduating 4-H members and alumni. The recipients, from 28 Montana counties and tribal areas, can use the scholarships for post-secondary education during the 2024-2025 academic year. Scholarship recipients were recognized July 11 at the 2024 Montana 4-H Congress held on the Montana State University campus in Bozeman. Jane Wolery, executive director of the Montana 4-H Foundation, said the foundation and its donors are looking forward to seeing the scholarship recipients reach their goals through higher education. Local scholarship rec...
News from the office of Senator Daines U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines joined a bipartisan group of senators urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase efforts in protecting crops from the potato wart disease. “If potato wart should enter the United States, our f...
News from the Port Polson Players POLSON — For an experience of pure pleasure that will make you glad you attended live theatre, the Port Polson Players continue their 49th season with “The Cemetery Club.” Playing at Polson’s historic, and air conditioned, 1938 log theatre on the...
News from the office of Sen. Jon Tester WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden Administration announced on July 11 their commitment to modernizing the Columbia River Treaty. The proposal revises the longstanding treaty between the United States and Canada governing the management of the Columbia River Basin ...
POLSON/RONAN — Starting Wednesday, July 17, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. every other month on the third Wednesday. Pick up at Polson Loaves and Fish Pantry, 904 First Street E and in Ronan at Mission West Food Enterprise, 407 Main Street.
U.S. SENATE — Continuing his longstanding efforts to protect Montanans’ freedom and privacy to make their own personal health care decisions, U.S. Senator Jon Tester today voted in support of the Reproductive Freedom for Women Act, legislation supporting a return to Roe v. Wade. Tester is a cospo...
News from the office of Senator Daines U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing pushed for the delisting of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystems and called out the delay in the delisting ...
News from the office of Sen. Steve Daines U.S. SENATE – On July 10, U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) announced the formation of the Senate Central Asia Caucus. The Caucus will focus on strengthening the United States’ relationship with allies in Central Asia, increasing trade and investme...
News from the office of Sen. Jon Tester U.S. SENATE — A direct result of his bipartisan infrastructure law, U.S. Senator Jon Tester recently secured $22,985,000 for the Montana Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, which will work to improve infrastructure for clean drinking water across Mont...
News from the office of Sen. Jon Tester U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Jon Tester recently pressed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on solutions to work-force housing shortages during a Senate Banking Committee hearing. Tester began his remarks by relaying to Chairman Powell that he...
