Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
ARLEE – The Firestone Flats Fire left more than a thousand acres burned near Arlee, but community members focused last week on the success of the emergency networks built in response to the fire instead of what it destroyed. “Within minutes all these people were ready to take their horse...
ARLEE – The Firestone Flats Fire left more than a thousand acres burned near Arlee, but community members focused last week on the success of the emergency networks built in response to the fire instead of what it destroyed. “Within minutes all these people were ready to take their horse...
Polson Middle School is quieter this week than the last, when students began disappearing from the hallways as quickly as cherries disappeared from the orchards. The tapering off of students participating in the migrant summer was expected, according to director Tim Berg. Students have a short windo...
RONAN — Despite living at the doorstep of abundant cherry orchards, a fish hatchery, and wheat fields, residents of Lake County are among the hungriest in Montana. The problem is mostly invisible to those not working in the intricate network of volunteers that distribute food to the needy; and...
RONAN – The animal that stole the show at the Lake County Fair never went before a judge or set foot in the auction barn. It lay nestled next to its mother and siblings in a cage on poultry row. A three-legged duckling owned by Shannon Saint, of Saddle Mountain 4-H, drew crowds almost immediat...
Officials are hopeful thunderstorms later in the week will help put out the Firestone Flats Fire that had burned 1,750 acres in Jocko Canyon as of Monday morning. “We are listing the fire as zero percent contained, but feel fire growth has slowed,” said Kristen Baker, spokeswoman for wes...
RONAN— A former state official and former Ronan police officer said in an interview last week that their communication via Facebook did not taint the process that bars former Ronan Police Chief Dan Wadsworth from serving as a law enforcement officer for the next 15 years. The Public Safety Officer S...
RONAN — The city council hired Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson as city attorney in a July 22 meeting that saw little other action, but much discussion about responsibility for monitoring and cleaning up after the street dance held during Pioneer Days. Each year Rod Smart, Lori Peterson, and Kand...
