Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
ST. IGNATIUS – Members of the public and St. Ignatius Town Council spoke in support of new police chief Matt Connelly on June 2, despite an apparent onslaught of negative rumors about him. Connelly was sworn in mid-May as police chief. He has more than a decade of law enforcement experience in India...
ST. IGNATIUS – St. Ignatius Town Council voted for the second time to not issue payment for completion of the town’s water project, until a final punch list could be completed. The council voted in May to withhold payment from the contractor and engineering firm, citing unsatisfactory pe...
RONAN — A Calgary, Alberta man remained behind bars in Lake County on Monday after a routine drug stop last week ended in one of the largest drug seizures in the county in recent memory. Miguel Douglas Miranda, 22, was being held on $1 million bond, after being pulled over by a Montana Highway...
A Bigfork man who shot and killed three grizzly bears in the Ferndale area in spring 2014 has avoided maximum punishment, though a federal judge imposed a fine and probation time at sentencing on May 26. Dan Calvert Wallen, 54, will have to pay $15,000 restitution and serve three years on probation,...
Bringing milk, cheese and ice cream to the dinner table is a labor of love, K. William Harvey Elementary students learned last week in a tour of Shock’s Mission View Dairy. The annual field trip has been going on for more than 15 years, but it never gets old, according to dairy operator Greg S...
POLSON – Tribal fisheries management is getting more skilled at reducing non-native lake trout from Flathead Lake through gillnetting. On May 14, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Fisheries Manager Les Everts gave the Flathead Wildlife Board an update on effectiveness of various removal ...
RONAN – K. William Harvey Elementary School students jumped up and down in delight as Victoria Valentine, Miss Montana 2014, told the group last week that each of them would get to take home three children’s books, free of charge. Valentine’s platform, Read it and Reap, encourages ...
YELLOW BAY – The sparkling blue waters of Flathead Lake are some of the cleanest in the world, give life to the animal and plant species nearby, and provide a home to some tiny organisms that often go overlooked. Elementary students from Polson, Bigfork and Ronan learned this and more during the Flathe...
CHARLO – Charlo High School senior Lindsey Tryon knows that college is likely going to be a bit more trying than her secondary education, but she’s thankful that financing her schooling is going to be one thing she doesn’t have to worry about. Tryon has received one of the nation&r...
CHARLO – Superintendent Thom Peck is confident that the 15 graduates of Charlo’s Class of 2015 will change the world. The purple and white clad Vikings made one last trek across the high school gymnasium floor to a packed house of spectators at commencement on Sunday. “My biggest b...
