RONAN – Cheerleading will continue to be a sport in Ronan if the squad can come up with the $3,941.91 necessary to fund a coach for the team. Last year, the school decided to cut the sport because of budget constraints, school officials said. Parents and the cheerleaders were made aware of this in October, and asked the school board to reconsider the decision. “After this football and volleyball season, cheerleading was just going to be done with,” parent Jennifer O’Connor said. “I was willing to volunteer as coach for the position but we found out that because the teacher’s union has it written into a contract about how much a coach sho...
POLSON — Heading into the holiday season, people are thinking about turkeys and gift giving, and not so much about scams. But swindlers love the holidays too, according to Lake County Undersheriff Dan Yonkin. A scam currently circulating around Lake County involves a flimflammer calli...
Veterans from all branches of service were honored Friday evening as the Circle of Trust group from Salish Kootenai College hosted a Round Dance. Veteran-themed posters created by Two Eagle River School students decorated the walls in the Joe McDonald Health Center Camas Room. Accompanied by at least a do...
RONAN — Volunteers from Ronan drove 560 veterans more than 40,000 miles to doctor’s appointments last year, but because of a shortage of transportation some vets were still turned away. “Sometimes we just had too tight of a schedule to do it,” volunteer driver Jack Collins said.&nb...
Laverne Parrish, a World War II Medical Corpsman from Ronan, was honored Monday in a ceremony for paying the ultimate sacrifice for his country. Parrish was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for acts of extreme courage and heroism. According to a citation read by James Pettit at...
POLSON — The Marine Corps League Hellroaring Detachment #1041 held their Marine Corps Birthday Ball on Sunday, Nov. 10, the 238th birthday or the Corps. The traditional cake cutting ceremony honored the guest of honor as well as the oldest and youngest Marine in attendance. The oldest Marine, ...
RONAN – Significant changes were made to the Highway 93 corridor expansion plan for Ronan in a Nov. 6 meeting between the city council and state and federal highway officials. But a dispute over the impact to Bockman Park halted negotiations that must be resolved if the $40 million project is to be com...
RONAN – An increase in requests for public records over the past two months prompted the Ronan City Council to vote at its Nov. 4 meeting to draft a policy that will charge more for retrieval and copies of public documents. “We’ve had a policy of (charging) 15 cents per page, but w...
MISSION — The St. Ignatius Town Council voted to expand its police force at a Nov. 4 meeting, after several months of research into ways to provide more police protection with few available funds. At previous meetings council members said the town couldn’t afford to hire another officer, but a...
PABLO – The face of domestic and sexual violence is often painted as that of the battered woman or child, broken and helpless. Little is done to make society contemplate exactly how or why men abuse their partners and children. “They’ve been seen as women’s issues that some g...
