POLSON – Several community groups and local businesses offered students and their families an opportunity to combine summer fun along with preparation for the upcoming school year on Saturday with a Day of Hope back-to-school wellness fair. The event was located in downtown Polson on Third Avenue West between First Street East and First Street West. Polson United Methodist Church in partnership with New Life Church of Polson hosted the event along with other community groups, including the Rotary Club, Lions Club and Helping Hands. “We just want the kids to know that they are loved and supported and to give them the best start to the school year,” said Polson U...
POLSON – The city commission approved two staff-recommended changes to the Polson Development Code and denied another during the last meeting. A state-mandated change to subdivision regulations related to agricultural use was the first update. They also passed a city-staff recommended addition to...
MONTANA — At least three separate groups are organizing to legalize recreational marijuana in Montana on the 2020 ballot, a process complicated by rules regarding citizen initiatives, expense and a peculiarity of the state constitution. The groups are taking varied approaches to getting their initia...
Story and photos by Rob Zolman / Valley Journal DIXON – If the walls of the Dixon school could talk, they might tell stories of all the things they have witnessed from horse-drawn wagons to dusty chalkboards and could tell tales about the hundreds of students and teachers who walked the halls and sa...
MONTANA — Responding to concerns from county clerks that rushing to replace Montana’s voter registration system with new software before the 2020 presidential election could put the integrity of the state’s elections at risk. Montana’s top election administrator acknowledged in a July...
WASHINGTON – Congressman Greg Gianforte recently introduced bipartisan legislation with Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) and Congressmen Chris Stewart (R-Utah) and Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) to create a universal telephone number as the National Suicide Hotline. The legislation design...
ST. IGNATIUS — Golf is a good walk spoiled. We will be closed on Tuesday, Sept. 3, in observance of Labor Day. We will reopen on Wednesday, Sept. 4. Our nail clinic will be held her at the center on Friday, Aug. 30, at 1 p.m. Call the center at 406-745-4462, to make your appointment. The...
News from the Office of Public Instruction MONTANA —The results of the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey are now available from the Montana Office of Public Instruction. Nintey-five percent of Montana middle schools participated and 94 percent of high schools participated. The biennia...
POLSON – If it seemed like vocal artist and songwriter Jordan Albert was playing a gig in his backyard during the Flathead Lake Blues and Musical Festival, it’s because he was. On Friday afternoon, the Polson native took center stage to help kick off the annual two-day festival. The even...
Turn on your tap and chances are clean drinking water will start to flow but that isn’t the case for everyone. Shelley Cleverdon discovered a limited water supply in Morocco while on vacation in 2016 and the decision to help changed her life. She said the landscape on the north side of Africa was be...
