Articles with the Tag: Ronan
Although Montana has never had their own NFL football team, its youth dominate the NFL Punt, Pass & Kick regional competition that also includes competitors from Alaska, Oregon and Washington. Winners are decided by a cumulative total of feet as they each punt, pass and kick a football. On Dec. 1, two...
RONAN – Teachers at K. William Harvey Elementary School traded blackboards and grading pens for fry shovels and ice cream cups Dec. 3, as they manned stations at the Ronan McDonald’s during the dinnertime rush hour. This is the second year the Ronan restaurant has allowed teachers to wor...
RONAN — We had 64 people show up for our birthday dinner last Friday, which shows that Montanans are tough enough to withstand the cold. From listening to the news, I think that we are living in the “banana belt.” Our monthly evening meal is this Thursday, Dec.12, and we will serve chick...
LAKE COUNTY — It is safe to break out the plastic at local grocery stores again. Spokane-based distributor URM Stores announced Dec. 2 that a cyber attack that stole account information of many customers across the Pacific Northwest was over. The attack affected customers of many banks in Miss...
Bitter cold has snuffed the life out of the last of any fruits and vegetables living along the valley floor in recent weeks; but on the day before Thanksgiving, Ronan High School students dug up radishes in a late harvest protected by a warm greenhouse. The radish growing project is part of a multi-facete...
POLSON — With Christmas day just 25 days away, many small businesses in Polson and Ronan were ready for the holidays with lights, wreaths, Christmas trees and ornaments just in time for Small Business Saturday Nov. 30. American Express started the day four years ago to encourage shoppers to support ...
RONAN – It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in downtown Ronan, and some credit for that goes to the town’s youth. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Kicking Horse Job Corps students spent the day out in the cold, climbing ladders and twisting Christmas lights around posts and t...
RONAN — A battle of warrior robots that rumbled Ronan high school students into a fourth place finish at a Nov. 15 state qualifying competition might sound like a dramatic clash reserved for stereotypical tech geeks, but that isn’t the case. Instead of building machines meant to destroy things...
RONAN — Well, now that Thanksgiving is over, we are fast on our way to Christmas and the end of the year. I hope that 2014 goes slower and isn’t in such a rush to get over with like 2013. We are having a Safe Driver Course (formally 55 Alive class) here on Thursday, Dec. 5. There is still t...
WESTERN MONTANA — Local banks across Mission Valley are estimated to have lost thousands of dollars in the past two weeks after their customers became victims of credit theft in the biggest data breach to hit the region in several years. Details on when and how the data were taken remain spars...