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RONAN — The Northwest Food Hub Network has been awarded a $1 million grant as part of the Regional Food Systems Partnership grant program, the USDA announced. Part of a collective of farmer-owned cooperative food hubs spanning across Montana and Washington, the Northwest Food Hub Network aims to encourage the supply and use of locally grown food in large institutions. The allocated funds will be put toward a three-year project intended to improve the local food hubs and increase the network for family farms, coming at a crucial time after two challenging seasons due to COVID-19. The network intends to accomplish this by focusing on a few key areas. “[First] ...
December marks two years since news of COVID-19 started to rumble global headlines, and in those 24 months people, businesses, and governments have seen more change than entire decades of the past. As businesses, families, and state leaders look forward into 2022, sometimes weary of words like “pivo...
News from Terry Rosengarten Unity Bank POLSON — Unity Bank is relocating down the road to 104 Ridgewater Drive in Polson. They will be operating out of a temporary structure on the property while they build their new office building. The old location will be open through 12 p.m. on Dec. 31. ...
RONAN — Montana’s first cooperative brewery recently celebrated its one-year anniversary. Though the doors of the Ronan Cooperative Brewery have been open for 15 months, the business model of the Co-op, as the town affectionately calls it, was embraced by the community back in 2017. Prop...
Last summer, a Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation survey of 1,327 front-line health care workers in the United States showed that medical burnout had reached epidemic proportions, accelerated by the COVID pandemic. According to a story by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the surve...
News from the Flathead Lake Museum POLSON — Recently members of the Polson Flathead Lake Museum Board, assisted by a forklift and driver provided by Western Building Center, met at the museum to move our newly purchased roofing material into a dry, safe environment inside the museum, while we awai...
News from the office of Senator Daines U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines returned from a successful trip to India where he met with India’s top trade official, Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, and Indian pulse crop buyers to improve market access for Mo...
News from Kayla McFarland, Shodair Children’s Hospital HELENA — Shodair Children’s Hospital received a $500,000 gift from Terry and Patt Payne to support the recently launched Building Hope for Montana Families … A Campaign for Shodair Children’s Hospital. “We are...
The headlines of national news have read like a doomsday novel recently when it comes to the upcoming holiday season, with labor shortages and global supply chain issues causing experts to predict continued issues in obtaining common holiday gift items ranging from wine to game consoles and workout machines....
News from the Montana Healthcare Foundation POLSON — Dr. Jamie G. Straub, DO, FACOG, has been named the 2021 Mignon Waterman Award recipient. The award was created to honor Mignon Waterman’s life and legacy. Mignon was one of the Montana Healthcare Foundation’s founding trustees and se...
