Articles Written By: Mary Auld
In the summer, the Mission Valley is full of fresh produce and meat made available at farmers markets; however, the current pandemic has imposed an air of uncertainty on plans for this summer’s farmers market season. Administrators of farmers markets in the area are working to find ways to kee...
RONAN — As of April 20, only two other states (Wyoming and Alaska) had fewer confirmed cases of COVID-19 than Montana.The state's low number, 433 at the time, means the virus isn’t spreading as rampantly as it is in other states. Still, local healthare providers, including St. Luke Community hosp...
MONTANA – The current coronavirus pandemic is an undoubtedly historic event, and the Montana Historical Society wants to engage Montanans in both recording our present moment and engaging with the state’s history. “We’re living through history as we speak, so as a historical societ...
LAKE COUNTY – Lake County residents will have their first opportunity to narrow the field of candidates competing for the chance to serve in the Montana State House of Representatives on June 2 in the state’s primary. Representatives work with state senators and the governor to create la...
Montana’s state senators collaborate with the state’s governor and house of representatives to create laws and set a state budget. There are 50 senators who serve four-year terms. Half the members of the senate are elected every two years. On June 2, Montanans will vote in a primary elec...
RONAN – Heather Roan Robbins wishes she could go back in time and get off the plane that took her to New York for the trip where she contracted COVID-19. Robbins, 64, was the second person diagnosed with the virus in Lake County. She received her diagnosis on March 28. Robbins did not spread t...
LAKE COUNTY – The first cases of the novel coronavirus have been diagnosed in the area, so those displaying symptoms are rushing to local healthcare providers to get tested; however, due to a limited number of testing supplies at the state level, not everyone with a cough or fever is being tested for t...
LAKE COUNTY – Healthcare providers know it’s just a matter of time before more people come down with the virus locally. Abigail Byers, St. Luke Community Healthcare’s director of nursing, said the hospital has different options for how to deal with the virus, depending on how the situati...
ST. IGNATIUS – Weekdays look different for the McNutt family compared to a few short weeks ago, before Governor Steve Bullock announced that all public schools should close to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Since St. Ignatius schools closed on March 16, the five McNutt children s...
LAKE COUNTY – The classrooms of all local schools are empty in an effort to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus sweeping the nation, but teachers and administrators don’t want their students to fall behind during their absence from school. For now, schools across the state are clo...
