RONAN — Montanans young and old showed up en masse Sept. 15 to partake in Ronan’s Harvest Fest. In what has become a yearly fall season staple, the festival featured zucchini races, live music, enormous pumpkins weighing more than 700 pounds, farmers markets, pies, a chili cook-off and much more. Event organizer Roland Godan was busy for the duration of the festival collecting money and distributing tickets for the chili cook-off. “I think it’s great to see such a diverse group of people come in and mingle,” he said. “I like to market it as a mini-county fair.” Godan said the festival earned the Ronan Chamber of Commerc...
RONAN — Two years ago, Ronan city employees saw a 30-cent-per-hour cost-of-living pay increase. Last year, it was only 7 cents. "I wouldn't even call last year's a cost-of-living increase. It was 7 cents. That doesn't even equate to 1-percent (of the worker's salary)," said city council member Roger...
Three fires currently are burning on the Flathead Reservation, according to Devlin LaFrombois at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Division of Fire. On the south fork of the Jocko River, the Whitehorse Lake fire is the largest of the three and had burned 230 acres as of Sept. 15. Mollma...
POLSON — A vacant house at 111 Third Avenue E. burned on Monday, Sept. 10 at approximately 10:40 p.m. Polson City Fire Department, Polson City Police and Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies and extinguished the fire. Polson Fire Chief John Fairchild determined the fire was suspicious in nature, and it...
POLSON - Election Day is coming on Nov. 6. This year the ballot for Lake County voters will be two pages long, one page double-sided. The polls will be open beginning at 7 a.m. and will close at 8 p.m. With a long ballot comes larger lines at the polls, so Kathie Newgard, Lake County electi...
POLSON — The Polson firefighter pager tones went off at about 5:45 p.m. on Aug. 31 as 16-year-old Cash Sisler was hanging out in his living room. Lake County dispatch relayed reports of a tree on fire at Camp Marshall on Melita Island Lane. Since Sisler’s mom is the caretaker at Camp Mar...
“Deplorable.” “Awful.” “Horrific.” “Beyond description.” “Have you seen ‘Hoarders’ on TV? Imagine that times 100.” These are just a few descriptions offered by police officials and local residents in regard to the li...
POLSON — In preparation for a trip to Ireland in 2008, Maggie Plummer read a travel guide. A few lines about Oliver Cromwell’s reign of terror during the 1650s captured Plummer’s interest and provided the seed for her next book, “Spirited Away.” In an effort to rid Ireland of...
RONAN — For many people in the Mission Valley, Bud Cheff Jr. is a storyteller of the highest caliber. Growing up in the Mission Valley, Cheff became fascinated by history and literature at an early age. He soon began collecting historical artifacts, many of which can be seen today in the Ninep...
POLSON — The track at Linderman Elementary School went to the dogs Saturday morning, but these canines were quite well-behaved … mostly. The Mission Valley Animal Shelter’s annual Doggy Dash, a fundraiser where dog owners can collect pledges for walking laps with their pets to sup...
