RONAN — The Ronan Chamber of Commerce has announced the first ever Ronan Brewfest will happen this summer on June 24 at the Lake County Fairgrounds. Rumblings of a possible brewfest have gone through the chamber for the last couple of years, with several board members interested. Katie Jo Elliott of the chamber said she began testing the waters last year by reaching out to different breweries at different points in the year to gauge interest. Good feedback in hand, she officially proposed the idea to the board. “Everybody was really excited about it and a lot of people jumped on board, and we formed a committee pretty quickly,” Elliott explained. “I...
HELENA — House Bill 479, sponsored by Ronan representative Joe Read, is on its way to the State Senate after passing a House vote on April 3. HB479 proposes that the State of Montana appropriate $2.5 million to the Department of Justice each year, beginning July 1, to reimburse Lake County for...
HELENA — The Legislature this week sounded the likely death knell for almost all of the remaining proposals to amend the Montana Constitution this session. That isn’t to say that the House and Senate didn’t endorse those eight proposals, which ranged from an amendment to end state Suprem...
ARLEE — Happy April 2023. It seems spring is coming but keeps getting interrupted with snow flurries and some snow that remain on the ground. But for the most part, we have a beautiful blue sky with fluffy clouds, brilliant stars at night and a new moon coming. How blessed we are to live where we can s...
POLSON — Local folks know that we have twelve seasons. April is called “Fake Spring.” It snows in April. It is cold. It is not truly spring until winter ends on May 3. Then spring starts, or as we say, the season of road construction. It lasts until whenever the money runs out. No matter wh...
RONAN — The Mission Valley Senior Center is located across from St. Luke’s Hospital. We are open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for lunch and other activities. Our menu is the following: — April 12: turkey, noodles, salad, dessert — April 14: fried fish dinner, s...
Freshman 4.0: Isaiah Begay, Maddox Bird, Lillian Bisson, David DiGiallonardo, Ruger Ellis, Holden Emerson, Cody Haggard, Patience Hatch, Parker Hendrickson, Josie Henriksen, Mark Kagi, Brody Kline, Cruz Lies, Raya Lucas, Teague McElwee, Jude McIntee, Robert Merchant, Kellyn Nelson, Lauren Rauch, Madel...
News from University of Dallas IRVING, TX — Kilty Edwards of Polson was one of more than 450 University of Dallas undergraduate students named to the fall 2022 Dean’s List for earning a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher. Edwards is a sophomore majoring in Mathematics. Located in one of the la...
RONAN — Kids big and small turned out in droves despite chilly weather to participate in this year’s Ronan egg hunt on April 1. Put on annually by Mission Mountain Enterprises, a local non-profit that provides community-based services to individuals with intellectual disabilities, Gayle ...
LAKE COUNTY — The Lake County Commissioners voted on March 27 to rescind Resolution of Intent 21-20 regarding the handling of fees related to the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project. R21-20, passed by the commission in 2021, determined that Lake County would cease billing, collecting, and distr...
