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News from SKC PABLO — The Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation, the HI5-CCE (High Five Needle Pine-Crown Continent Ecosystem) Management Group, Salish Kootenai College and the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes are sponsoring two days of annual meetings and a Saturday field trip. The meetings are about high-elevation forest management and the Whitebark Pine and will take place at the Johnny Arlee Victor Charlo Theatre on the Salish Kootenai College Campus. Several local managers and researchers will present both days, and there will be a session on cultural use of Whitebark Pine.The field trip on Sept. 14 will explore some of CSKT Forestry’s efforts at Whitebark Pine ...

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 We...

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...

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...

Mission Valley schools open on:   Arlee — Monday,  Aug. 26   St. Ignatius — Wednesday, Aug. 28   Charlo — Wednesday, Aug. 28   Ronan — Wednesday, Aug. 28   Polson — Wednesday, Aug. 28   Dayton — Tuesday...

LAKE COUNTY – While the kids are on summer vacation, local schools have been bustling with projects to improve school infrastructure. Ronan students can look forward to a freshly paved high school parking lot and a new floor in the Pablo Elementary School gym. Most of the lighting in the school dist...

News from the Office of Public Instruction  Earning a bachelor’s degree has become a basic goal for high school students, but many college graduates with a four-year degree find themselves struggling to earn enough money to achieve their version of the American dream. In fact, a significant p...

News from the Montana Office of Public Instruction  The United States Senate Youth Program and Montana Office of Public Instruction are pleased to announce that Montana high school juniors and seniors are eligible for a $10,000 college scholarship and all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C to tou...

News from Two Eagle River School  Two Eagle River School will be starting the 2019-20 school year on the morning of Aug. 22, 2019 at 8 a.m. Enrollment applications are available at the school and may be dropped off any time but a parent/guardian of new students must personally bring the paperwork i...

POLSON – Competitors young and old had a chance to test their table tennis skills while having a little fun on Saturday afternoon during the inaugural valley-wide table tennis tournament hosted by Mission Valley Christian Academy in its main gymnasium in Polson. “This is great,” said spe...