Articles with the Tag: Dixon
Forty years ago Daren Incashola was a little guy playing with blocks during his time at a Head Start in St. Ignatius. He was 4 years old. He would grow up and send his two children to the child development program for children ages birth to 5. On Friday, Incashola helped celebrate Head Start’s...
DIXON — It’s 50+ degrees as I type this on Friday...near Dixon, which is known as the “banana belt” of these parts. I am tempted to pick the “last rose of autumn”— a deep red bud, which probably won’t last to bloom. Petunias are hanging in there, as well as a f...
A cheetah was seen running across Mission Mountain Golf Course Sunday afternoon, but luckily Superman, Captain America and the Caped Crusader were on hand to give chase. It was all in good fun as children, families and schools came together to raise funding to enhance healthy outdoor activities at schools...
PABLO –Twenty-six candidates are vying for five of the 10 seats on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council this year during the primary election set for Oct. 17. “The primary election will narrow down the candidates to two in each district unless the votes are really close,” ...
DIXON – We’re into autumn and the delights it can bring...the much more enjoyable weather (I grew up in the rain and drips of the Northwest), the trees are turning colors, most of the harvesting is done and now the apples abound. Don’t you love the predictability of the changes? The geese a...
DIXON — Friends of Ronan Parks and Trails (FORPAT) stopped by the Dixon School District to drop off a check for $500 to help the school with the cost of maintaining their new playground, but the group didn’t stop there. As soon as school started, group members Carole Lankford and Eleanor Vizca...
DIXON – Amelya Delay, 7, watched patiently as the new playground equipment at the Dixon school was being put together this summer, but the last few hours seemed like forever. “I had to wait a lot of time,” she said. Students were finally allowed to play on the finished project o...
HELENA – A man has appealed two life sentences handed down in 2013 for a disturbing home invasion and murder in Dixon by saying his plea of “guilty, but mentally ill” should not have been permitted. Nathan Lee William Calvert, 35, was sentenced in 2013 to two life sentences, plus t...
DIXON – Yes, the Dixon Center is still open and ready for business. We certainly appreciate its air-conditioned comfort during these hot summer days. I feel relieved that we don ‘t have humidity along with the heat. I recently returned from an 11-state trip in an elderly motor home back from M...
The men and women waiting to begin their tour from Dixon June 9 were mostly from a generation whose letters to Santa likely included a toy train. “What you see here is a bunch of 18-year-olds in 60 and 70-year-old bodies,” quipped John Daniel of Washington as he waited to begin the Montana &ld...
