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MILAN — Two people are running for the open seat on the Milan select board next Tuesday. Incumbent Peter Nolet faces a challenge from Claude Plourde for the three-year position.

Buoyed by a surge in vaccine shipments, states and cities are rapidly expanding eligibility for COVID-19 shots as the U.S. races to beat back the virus and reopen businesses and

Diana Sirko hasn’t left her post as superintendent of School District 51 yet, but a successor is already lined up. The Board of Education on Wednesday unanimously agreed that current Assistant Superintendent Brian Hill was the best person for that role, and selected him to be the future superintendent. Hill has been with the district since July 2019. “I had to ask myself, ‘Would I feel comfortable putting a generation of students in classrooms across the systems with you as the l...

TOM LUTEY The Defense Departments investigation into disgraced White House physician Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson released Wednesday mentions Montana only once, though the man Trump nominated to lead Veterans Affairs gets a chapter in Montana’s political history. In former President Donald Trump’s visits to Montana in 2018 to campaign for Matt Rosendale’s unsuccessful Senate bid, Jackson was mentioned repeatedly as a primary reason for Trump’s interest in the race....

Senate Democrats are down to the wire.

Alex Sheen was a guest speaker for the third and final virtual event of the 2021 Student Engagement EXPO on Wednesday evening. Sheen is a well-known motivational speaker who has been featured on news programs such as Good Morning America and CNN. He often speaks about the importance of accountability and sticking to commitments. Additionally, Sheen is the founder of "because I said I would," a nonprofit social movement "dedicated to better humanity through promises made and kept," according to ...

"I did try to bring focus to my opening statement that Democrats seem to want to focus on just January the 6th and just right-wing activism," Grassley said Wednesday.

BRETT FRENCH The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to acquire more than 11,000 acres south and east of the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, a portion of which is along a five-mile stretch of the lower Musselshell River. In an environmental assessment the agency released on Monday, the proposed acquisition would consolidate 39,130 acres of its land along the border of Petroleum and Garfield counties that abuts the refuge. In the process, the acquisition would provide...

GREENSBURG – Mayor Josh Marsh recently announced the creation of a Greensburg Youth Council, to come to fruition in early 2022.

Rick Pearson Chicago Tribune Illinois Democratic leaders on Wednesday night selected U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly of Matteson as their new state party chairman and the successor to embattled former House Speaker Michael Madigan, who held the post for 23 years. In a vote of the 36-member Democratic State Central Committee, with each member’s ballot weighted by the number of votes cast in the 2020 March primary, Kelly got 52% to 48% for Chicago Ald. Michelle Harris, 8th. Harris’ lo...