RONAN — The Flathead Water Compact board finalized their bylaws during their April 13 meeting and passed their very first resolutions as a board. The first resolution passed by the board was to establish the spending authority limits for the water engineer. Originally in a draft of the bylaws but changed to a resolution for the sake of simplicity, Resolution 2023-01 establishes the fiscal and procurement policy for the water engineer. With only a few revisions to the proposed draft, the resolution will allow the water engineer limited spending authority, as well as establish a segregation of duties to prevent misuse or loss of funds and establish transparency and financial ac...
News from the Polson School District POLSON — By now, your ballot(s) for the Polson School District Bond election should be in route to your mailbox if they haven’t already arrived. Thank you for your consideration of the various issues our aging school infrastructure faces, which you ...
5th Grade 4.0 Annabella Allred Dylan Bennett Elynn Bird Harlow Caye Taryn Cochran Madelyn Coles Brody Dunn Owen Godfrey Ethan Homola Wyatt Knapp Soren Lund Sharae Mahseelah Remi McMahon Aubrie Nash Elliotte Patrick Evaline Reinhardt Frank Schmitz Harmon...
9th Grade 4.0 – Abigail Gillin, Arianna Robine 3.5 - 3.99 – Jayson Brown, Sierra Girsch, Brayden Hall, Lex LaFrombois, Brooklyn McClure, Leslia Stops, Cora Matt 3.0 - 3.49 – Wyatt Branson, Destiny Courville, Jake Helser, Jacob Piedalue, Krugger Pierce, Alecia Steele, Kitra Thomas...
POLSON — Well, if you haven’t filed your IRS form 1040 EZ by the time you read this, it’s not too late to file for an extension. That EZ at the end is supposed to mean “Easy,” but it never is. If you work a 40-hour work week for 52 weeks it figures out to a 2080-hour work year. ...
ARLEE — This is what I wrote last year and it seems to apply this week, except we have freezing weather – winds, below zero, more snow and yet the sun wants to tease us with what is to come. “March winds seem to have arrived in February with all that below zero weather! But now we are lo...
ST. IGNATIUS — Believe it or not, we had a big brown bear in our yard last week. So, keep your bird feeders protected and your garbage put away. The St. Ignatius Senior Center Indoor Yard Sale will take place on April 28 and 29 from 10 a.m.-4. p.m. Donations are welcome. We are looking for an assist...
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 Elli...
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...
