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Reclamation invests $18 million to refurbish the Canyon Ferry power plant

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded an $18,843,500 contract to Andritz Hydro Corporation to replace and refurbish components of three electric generators at Canyon Ferry power plant. The work will be done in $2-$4 million increments over a three-year period starting in July of 2022.

CMMC, Billings Clinic oncology partner to provide in-person services in Lewistown

Central Montana Medical Center will offer in-person oncology services in partnership with Billings Clinic Cancer Center beginning mid-October through outreach clinics and other services to Lewistown and the surrounding region. Benefis Sletten Cancer Institute recently informed CMMC that they would no longer be able to sustain outreach services in Lewistown. The teams involved began discussions at that time how best to care for patients who would like to transition their treatment to the Billings Clinic outreach clinic providers.

LAW ENFORCEMENT BLOTTER

The following report was taken from information provided by the Central Montana Dispatch and does not represent the total scope of police or sheriff activities. All persons are innocent until proven guilty.

Fixer upper?

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Contractors work on repairing a railroad bridge over Highway 12 between Lavina and Ryegate last week. The highway was closed for about a week after a truck hauling a crane hit the bridge and did some damage. Photo courtesy of Mary Peters

Fergus County withdraws from Health District

By unanimous vote of the two Fergus County commissioners attending Wednesday’s meeting, the county will withdraw from the Central Montana Health District sometime before the end of this year.

DNRC announces Infrastructure Advisory Commission meeting

The ARPA Infrastructure Advisory Commission will meet Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 9 a.m. in the State Capitol. The meeting will be held in Room 152 as well as virtually, and livestreamed at eg.mt.gov/audio-video (click the “Streaming for Today” button to watch). Email dnrarpa@mt.gov by 8 a.m., Monday, Sept. 20, if you would like to join the meeting via Zoom.

Cooler weather helping with rescinding of fire restrictions

Fergus County has rescinded Stage II restrictions and reinstated stage I restrictions on all private, state and federal lands effective Friday, Sept. 17.

COVID cases spike in across Montana

The Delta variant of the coronavirus is at the root of the recent jump in COVID-19 cases across Montana. There are more than 8,000 active cases across the state, the most since last December. As of Friday, there were 61 active cases in Fergus County.

CORRECTION

In a story on the Central Montana Farm in the Dell that ran in the Wednesday, Sept. 15 paper, Tom Plovanic was listed as running the tractor pull at the Harvest Festival. It is Tom Petranek who is running the tractor pull. The News-Argus regrets the error.

Youth Mentoring Program to reopen soon

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After a year shut down due to the pandemic, the Central Montana Youth Mentoring Program is back, with a few changes.