Blodgett Creamery in Polson hosted an unusual mix of community members last Thursday, including business owners, contractors, developers, realtors, home owners and renters, all looking for answers to the Mission Valley’s housing crisis. They left with no concrete solutions, but a fistful of ideas from five panelists, including Jody Perez, executive director of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Housing Authority, Polson City manager Ed Meece and city planner Juan Escano, county commissioner Bill Barron and state representative Linda Reksten. Polson Chamber president Brian Miskimins, a DJ and salesman for Anderson Broadcasting moderated the two-hour session. In ope...
Unceasing change was the theme of basketball giant Phil Jackson’s talk to the Flathead Lakers last Friday in Polson. The Montana native, who played as a power forward with the New York Knicks before leading the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers to a combined 11 NBA titles, recounted his long history...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION — Thousands of acres have burned in the wilderness since July, and the flames continue to smolder. As of Monday, Aug. 22, two main fires have kept firefighters busy on the reservation. The Crooks fire, near Arlee, is at 3,258 acres and is zero percent contained. The Boulder 2700...
POLSON — As the school year nears, Polson School District officials continue to monitor the situation with COVID-19 in our country and specifically within Lake County. We are committed to full-time, in-person instruction, activity participation, and parent engagement in our schools. We look...
POLSON — After missing out last year, Day of Hope back-to-school wellness fair, a major community event to help prepare students and families for the new school year, returned to the downtown streets of Polson on Saturday. New Life Church, along with various local faith and community-based organizat...
News from DPHHS MONTANA — Montana healthcare providers can now offer third doses of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to certain immunocompromised individuals following new recently announced federal recommendations. “This is great news because we know the impact COVID-...
RONAN — The Mission Valley Senior Center serves meals on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from noon until one. Our menu: — Friday, Aug. 27: our famous roast beef dinner with all the trimmings — Monday, Aug. 30: brunch - biscuits and gravy, hash browns — &nbs...
DIXON — Dixon Senior Center continues to serve our community and hopes everyone is staying happy and healthy. All are invited to come enjoy dinner, breakfast, and/or pinochle. Meals will be served Monday and Thursday evenings, at 5 p.m. Meals are $4 per serving and are deliverable to Dixon residents up...
At the Lake County Public Health office on Main Street in Polson, nurse Leigh Johnson is seeing a small but steady increase in the number of people showing up for COVID vaccines each Friday. After the big push last spring, the demand for vaccines in Lake County had slowed to a trickle. “For a ...
FINLEY POINT — The Boulder 2700 fire is on its third week of burning and estimated to have reached 2,072 acres at 46 percent containment by Monday, Aug. 16, with 31 structures lost. Northern Rockies Incident Management Team division group supervisor Tyson Atkinson said there is still a “long w...
