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Fergus County 2022 election results canvassed

As required by law, Fergus County Clerk and Recorder Janel Tucek presented the canvass of election results to the County commissioners Thursday.

Tucek said a total of 5,491 ballots were cast, although she pointed out that doesn’t mean each race added up to the total.

“People don’t all vote in every race,” Tucek said. “There are under votes and over votes.”

In order to double-check the machine-counted votes, Tucek is required to do a hand count of randomly selected races.

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Superintendent Arntzen saves Montana Taxpayers over $323,000 in new lease agreement

Superintendent Elsie Arntzen will save Montana taxpayers $323,488 over the next 3 years by consolidating OPI’s office buildings from four to two. After the COVID shut down the Superintendent implemented an agency-wide telework policy which decreased the need for office space. Currently, there are 81 OPI teleworkers, which account for 40% of all OPI employees.

Former Navy corpsman finds Montana State a pathway to serve rural, veteran community

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After six years in the Navy, Rachel Nyquist decided to attend Montana State University to further her education in the field of medicine, combining her past experience with new knowledge to serve the veteran community in rural Montana.

Big Hole Valley Habitat Conserved in Montana

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Approximately 3,600 acres of pristine wildlife and riparian habitat in Montana’s popular Big Hole region will remain that way thanks to a conservation collaboration by a longtime traditional landowner, the Bureau of Land Management and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

Biden-Harris Administration announces $452,871 for community air pollution monitoring project in Montana

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to receive funding to conduct community air quality monitoring in 183 locations across Montana. The grant is one of 132 air monitoring projects in 37 states that will receive $53.4 million from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and American Rescue Plan to enhance air quality monitoring in communities across the United States. The projects are focused on communities that are underserved, historically marginalized, and overburdened by pollution, supporting President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative.

Montana Backs Away From Innovative Hospital Payment Model Other States Are Watching

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Montana is signaling it might step away from an innovative way of setting the prices its public employee health plan pays hospitals for services, an approach that has saved the state millions of dollars and become a model for health plans nationwide.

U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich announces DOJ grant for Montana’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force

U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich today announced a grant award of $346,984 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to a Montana task force that investigates internet crimes against children and the exploitation of children.

Wild Sustenance: Course introduces UM Students to hunting

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Wild Sustenance: