POLSON — The Polson City Commission efficiently marched through several agenda items during last Monday’s meeting. At the top of the agenda was a contract with Mission West Community Development for economic development services, which will include marketing Polson Redevelopment Agency grants, helping property owners within the Tax Increment Financing district apply for funds and assisting the PRA with scoring and evaluating applications. The organization, based in Ronan, will also offer grant research and help identify and recruit new businesses. “Since arriving in October, I’ve been looking to build a very strong and effective economic development team,...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION – Fire broke out along the Flathead River five miles west of Dixon on Wednesday, April 7, at around 2 p.m. and burned for several days. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire responded and identified the incident as the Sinkhole Fire. Officials report...
ST. IGNATIUS — The center opened for meals last week on April 6. We are serving lunches each Tuesday and Friday at noon, and dinners on the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 5:30 p.m. Take-out meals are available for those days. Call by 10 a.m. to order a take-out lunch and by 2 p.m. for a tak...
DIXON — The Dixon Senior Center continues to serve our community and hopes everyone is staying happy and healthy. We have opened the doors for eating in, continuing to adhere to social distancing precautions, so our friends and neighbors can spend some time visiting with each other. We are also accepti...
CHARLO — The Mission Valley community came together to raise funds in support of a local athlete and his family during his battle with cancer. Charlo High School wrestling state champion and freshman Montana Tech Oredigger football player Isaiah Allik was diagnosed with a rare vascular cancer called...
PABLO — The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, in collabroation with federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement and community organizations, has finalized the nation’s first Tribal Community Response Plan as part of a pilot project to address cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous P...
RONAN — Human remains were found at the base of the Mission Mountains in an area southeast of Ronan on the morning of Tuesday, March 30. Lake County Sheriff Don Bell said a report came in to Lake County 911 that a person who was not identified to the public had found what appeared to be human remain...
MONTANA — Montana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution is among the most efficient in the nation, but closer examination reveals a patchwork of systems among counties and tribal governments that will be put to the test as the state opens vaccine eligibility to all people 16 and older starting this mon...
News from the office of Senator Daines HELENA — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has completed their 5 year status review of the grizzly bear in the lower 48 states and announced that they will recommend the species retains their threatened status under the “Endangered Species Act.” ...
LAKE COUNTY — Faster than you can say hippity hoppity the eggs were gone. As young egg hunters Saturday morning, some wearing bunny ears, scurried around snatching up brightly colored plastic eggs scattered across the grass during various annual community Easter Egg Hunts. In Ronan, at the Missio...
