Local Briefs

LVA seeks people

to become EMTs

Libby Volunteer Ambulance is looking to expand is corps of EMTs.

Persons who are interested in serving and helping others who need them most should contact LVA from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. at 293-5582.

A tentative class for EMTs is scheduled to begin Jan. 20.

EPA office

annouces closure

The EPA Information Center, located at 108 E. Ninth St., will close at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 24, and stay closed through Christmas Day, Dec. 25.

The office will reopen at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 26.

Medical center

open house Jan. 18

St. John’s Lutheran Hospital is scheduling an open house of its new medical center, Cabinet Peaks Medical Center, on Jan. 18.

The public will get the opportunity to stroll through the new facility.

More on the open house will be available as the date approaches.

Experts to review

gray wolf status

SANTA BARBARA — A group of experts is reviewing whether the federal proposal to lift more Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf is scientifically valid.

A research center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, assembled the experts at the request of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to determine whether the agency used the best available science to conclude that gray wolves no longer need protection.

Wolves have already lost federal protections in the Northern Rockies and western Great Lakes. Fish & Wildlife now wants to lift protections in the rest of the United States, except for a small area of the Southwest.

Morris takes oath

as federal judge

HELENA  — Brian Morris looked over the Montana Supreme Court chambers and told the crowd gathered Wednesday that it was a “bittersweet” location to hold his swearing-in ceremony as the state’s newest federal judge.

Morris, 50, had been a Supreme Court justice for the last eight years, and before that, he was solicitor for the Montana Department of Justice.