Setback doesn't halt plans for Assinniboine

The Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association is undeterred that a project to repair the post trader's building was temporarily derailed last month.

Gary Wilson, president of the association, said it awarded Lyle Lossing of Havre a $7,285 contract to replace a roof on a cavalry guard stable building.

The association also is focusing on repairing the other end of the post trader's building, which houses Montana State University's Northern Agricultural Research Center soil laboratory.

The preservation association is using money unspent from past grants and donations to pay for the roofing jo...