LAKE COUNTY – Local schools in Arlee and Polson earned state recognition focused on conservation and sustainability practices. In the spring, a corner of the Polson Middle School grounds becomes lush with food plants. The garden, and programs that utilize the space, earned PMS the SMART Green Schools award. In a virtual award ceremony, Lieutenant Governor Mike Cooney presented the award to PMS and a number of other schools around the state including the Arlee High School. The award comes with a $1,000 prize for the school. The SMART school challenge encourages schools to conserve resources and develop sustainable systems. The Green challenge is one of three different categori...
MONTANA — As the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic was rising in the U.S. earlier this spring, Montana State University engineering alumnus John Greenheck was in a good position to help. After earning his bachelor’s in civil engineering from MSU in 1999, he had spent more than 14 years sp...
Editor's Note: Montana is the oldest state west of the Mississippi, and demographic projections show the state growing collectively older as more Montanans enter their senior years. The economic, cultural, and personal impacts of that trend present the state and its residents with new challenges and, ...
On March 12, a collaboration of 16 Montana newsrooms launched the first story of a series titled Graying Pains, months in the making, exploring Montana’s status as the demographically oldest state west of the Mississippi. The next day, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock announced the state’s first fou...
LAKE COUNTY – When Bella McKenzie was a baby, she knew what she wanted, but she had a hard time telling people what it was. “We had a hard time understanding her, so she would scream,” Bella’s mother, Michelle McKenzie, said. At a well-child visit when Bella was two,...
ST. IGNATIUS — The St. Ignatius Senior Citizens Center remains closed due to the pandemic, except for takeout meals. Those meals are available at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays and each first and third Wednesdays of the month; however, due to the Memorial Day observance, there will be no meal served on M...
POLSON — The Polson Senior Center will probably not open until Phase III of the Montana Reopening Plan. We are still doing home delivery of lunches Monday through Friday for $5. The partial menu is: — Wednesday, May 27: chicken salad, crackers, dipping vegetables with ranch, tr...
DIXON — The Dixon Senior Center continues to serve our community. We are still following social distancing precautions and are accepting take-out meal requests only. Meals will be served Monday and Thursday evenings at 5:30 p.m. Meals are $4 per serving and are deliverable to Dixon residents u...
LAKE COUNTY – Polson VFW member Matt Lee was determined to honor Memorial Day during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Must keep the tradition alive,” he said after learning the downtown Polson Memorial Day Parade was canceled in an effort to keep the COVID-19 virus from spreading. ...
News from the Office of the Governor MONTANA – Governor Steve Bullock announced the state will move to phase two of the Reopening the Big Sky plan and will lift the 14-day out-of-state travel quarantine beginning June 1 as Montana continues to have the lowest number of positive COVID-19 ca...
