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POLSON — About 40 people attended the first of many public meetings on the Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery or TIGER Grant held on March 30 at 6:30 p.m. in Linderman gym. Lake County Commissioners Paddy Trusler and Bill Barron and Polson City Manager Todd Crossett presented information on the $12 million grant. The grant is a partnership including Lake County, the City of Polson, the City of Ronan, the Town of St. Ignatius, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and Lake County Community Development. The original grant application was for $16 million so receiving $12 million meant the project had to be downsized. Trusler said the group is still ...
Almost five years after the alleged murder of 73-year-old Harold Mitchell, Jr., in St. Ignatius, police have arrested a Dixon man in connection with the case. Nathan Ross, 21, is charged with one count of deliberate homicide and one count of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, both felonies. ...
POLSON — Allen Metzger changed his plea from not guilty to no contest after the deliberate homicide charges were reduced to negligent homicide charges. Metzger was charged with the stabbing of a Ronan man on Aug. 16, 2009, at the Valley Club in Ronan. He was released on a $25,000 bond in De...
The Easter bunny had lots of helpers around the Mission Valley on Saturday, April 3. The ladies of the Alpha Upsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi cleaned, stuffed and hid close to 5,000 plastic Easter eggs on the beginning-to-green lawns at Boettcher Park. Businesses around Polson donated coupons, cand...
POLSON — Daisy Girl Scout Troop #3327 got a special treat at its March 25 meeting. The 10 first graders met in the Cherry Valley Library. After a game of “Mother May I,” the Daisies, all wearing their blue aprons, met Deputy Ryan Funke from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. ...
ST. IGNATIUS — Four lucky St. Ignatius Elementary students took brand new bicycles home from school Friday. Michael Kibler, Azia LaFrombois, Alexis LaChance and Danny Helmer each won a coveted drawing for a new bike through the Books for Bikes program. Every time a student reads a book, he can enter...
POLSON — Seventh grader Ida Couture was a little nervous as she asked Pablo “Chib” Espinoza questions. Espinoza is Chief of Fish and Game Department for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Couture started off asking Espinoza his name, how to spell his name and how many years he ...
Hot rods streaked through the normally quiet east side of town in Ronan last Wednesday night ... and a few of them were seen over in Plains on Saturday. Though they weren't pealing rubber or revving up loud engines, Ronan and Charlo Cub Scout Packs 40 and 56 put together their best racers for last Wednesd...
RONAN — A frenzy of firefighters cooked up a storm on Saturday and Sunday at the annual Pancake Feed. Feeding more than 1,000 people, the Ronan Volunteer Fire Department happily spent their weekend in the Ronan Community Center kitchen preparing a pancake breakfast that included sausages, eggs, waffles...
This is in response to a growing number of questions from Polson-area residents who wonder why they have not received 2010 Census questionnaires. Some years back, during planning of the 2010 Census, representatives of the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, visited the headquarters...
