ST. IGNATIUS — The St. Ignatius Senior Citizens Center remains closed due to the pandemic, except for takeout meals. Those meals are available at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays and each first and third Wednesdays of the month; however, due to the Memorial Day observance, there will be no meal served on May 27. The next lunch, which will feature beef stroganoff, will be available on Friday, May 29. Persons wanting to pick up meals are asked to call the center at 406-745-4462, by 10:30 a.m. on meal days.
POLSON — The Polson Senior Center will probably not open until Phase III of the Montana Reopening Plan. We are still doing home delivery of lunches Monday through Friday for $5. The partial menu is: — Wednesday, May 27: chicken salad, crackers, dipping vegetables with ranch, tr...
DIXON — The Dixon Senior Center continues to serve our community. We are still following social distancing precautions and are accepting take-out meal requests only. Meals will be served Monday and Thursday evenings at 5:30 p.m. Meals are $4 per serving and are deliverable to Dixon residents u...
LAKE COUNTY – Polson VFW member Matt Lee was determined to honor Memorial Day during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Must keep the tradition alive,” he said after learning the downtown Polson Memorial Day Parade was canceled in an effort to keep the COVID-19 virus from spreading. ...
News from the Office of the Governor MONTANA – Governor Steve Bullock announced the state will move to phase two of the Reopening the Big Sky plan and will lift the 14-day out-of-state travel quarantine beginning June 1 as Montana continues to have the lowest number of positive COVID-19 ca...
ARLEE – Pamela Askan has been attending the Arlee Celebration since she was a little kid. She can’t remember a year when she missed the event. This year, the powwow grounds will be empty the first weekend in July for the first time since the powwow started in 1898. Askan said the powwow’s c...
News from CSKT FLATHEAD RESERVATION – The Shelter-In-Place order and the partial shutdown of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ government remains in place by declaration of the tribal council posted on May 13. At this point, the shutdown is indefinite, however, the council plan...
LAKE COUNTY – The COVID-19 pandemic has stopped paychecks for many of those whose jobs put them at risk for contracting or spreading the virus. According to the federal Labor Department, 36.5 million people across the country filed for unemployment benefits between mid-March and mid-May. Speci...
LAKE COUNTY – Last week both the Polson School District and Ronan School District held online board meetings. Both districts administered the Oath of Office for recently re-elected school board trustees. On Monday, May 11, Polson School District board trustees Chanel Lake and Caroline McDonald took the...
RONAN – They held the first farmers market of the season in Ronan last Thursday and everything looked like business as usual, but a closer inspection revealed a few differences this year. Reducing the spread of the COVID-19 virus created the need for social distancing guidelines at farmers markets t...
