Articles with the Tag: Ronan City Council
RONAN – Ronan Police Chief Ken Weaver officially swore in two reserve officers during the last city council meeting on Monday. With their hands raised, Ronan Reserve Police Officers Brandon Smith and Robert Stentz swore to uphold the law. The reserve officer program was suspended in 2013 after probl...
RONAN – Ronan City Council members are undecided about supporting or not supporting the separation of the 911 dispatch service from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. “I would like to hear from the public,” said Councilmember Cal Hardy during the March 21 meeting. The counc...
RONAN – Two county officials respectively agreed to disagree at the Ronan City Council meeting on Monday, March 7. The issue concerned separating the Lake County Dispatch service from the sheriff’s office, where it is currently operated, and making it a separate entity governed by a 911 Commit...
RONAN – The Ronan City Council received a letter asking if they would approve of a the 911 system being developed into a separate stand-alone entity. “We support a study to find out more information about this,” said council member Cal Hardy. The letter was from the 911 Committee. Lak...
RONAN – During the last Ronan City Council meeting three board members were sworn into office, but they don’t officially take those positions until January. Only one is a new member. Serving for her first time, Julie Lynn Moore will replace council member Robert McCrea. Incumbent Ellen K...
LAKE COUNTY — Unofficial election results are in for municipal races in Lake County. Ian Donovan won the Polson City Commissioner race with 209 votes over Peter Daniels’ 111 votes. Just 37.5 percent of voters participated. In Ronan, three seats were open for City Council. Ellen R. Kaphammer (W...
RONAN – Ronan City Council members continued to look over every line of the city’s budget, which was about an inch thick, to ensure that everything was in order during the last regular meeting. They held another work meeting later in the week to continue studying the budget. City Clerk K...
RONAN — Only minor public intoxication incidents and an ATV theft occurred during Pioneer Days weekend, and Ronan authorities say grant monies providing for extra law enforcement coverage probably played a key role in the quiet weekend. A $5,000 safety grant from the Montana Department of Tran...
Status of innovative play project in limbo RONAN — The Ronan City Council had to vote again to dissolve its park board on Aug. 4, after its attorney advised that a previous vote made in July was not legally kosher. The dissolution of the board also leaves the status of a planned innovative play p...
RONAN — At a July 20 meeting, city councilmembers approved a 2018 Highway 93 construction project that will create a four-lane highway system that passes through Ronan. Mayor Kim Aipperspach said signing off on the proposed couplet system was routine business for the ongoing process of the highway&r...
