Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire is mopping up a .3 acre fire that burned some tribal forestland earlier today near Blue Bay. The small fire was sparked by a saw in use by a lumber operation, and was quickly contained, according to Fire Information Officer Devlin LaFromb...
UPDATED JULY 3 RONAN — A young child playing with fireworks sent a Ronan home up in flames June 30 and left a family homeless just before a county-wide ban on the novelties went into place. “He lit one, threw it into a bush, the bush caught fire and awa...
On nights when my dreams ring in crystal clear, I sometimes awaken from scenes so vivid that I swear I can smell the unique aroma of cigarette smoke, coffee bubbling in a dinged-up percolator and squirrel dumplings simmering on the kitchen stove as my grandmother’s raspy voice sings out across a kitche...
Sarah and Tino Templer were super excited for lions, tigers, bears and more as they waited for the circus to begin at the Ronan fairgrounds on Saturday. “Elsa’s going to be on the trapeze,” Sarah, 7, said in quiet reverence of an aerialist she had seen at another show and venue.&nb...
RONAN — They could have spent it on X-boxes, hats, basketballs, or new bikes, but when two 11-year-old boys found $160 lying on the streets of Ronan they didn’t flinch when it came to doing the right thing. Ronan Middle School students Ivan Pepion and Josiah Alexander rode their bikes pa...
ST. IGNATIUS – Irrigation commissioners said last week that a lack of drought management plan and adequate staffing at the Bureau of Indian Affairs is exacerbating water delivery to Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators. According to commissioners, individual ditchriders appear to be c...
RONAN — Popping fireworks can be great fun, if done in an appropriate time and manner. Ronan Public Works Director Dan Miller posted a note at City Hall last week as a reminder that the Ronan City Council adopted new fireworks regulations last summer, that are currently in effect. Under the...
ST. IGNATIUS – Townsfolk in St. Ignatius flocked to the 21st annual Fireman’s Picnic and Auction on Saturday, under triple digit temperatures and a dry sky that had most in attendance stressing why the event is so important in the first place. “It’s very important, especially...
RONAN – On June 22 Police Chief Ken Weaver laid out a new plan to bring back the city’s reserve officer program, but council members were apprehensive two years after problems with a former police chief and the reserve program caused the town’s police department to fall into shambles and re...
RONAN – Fire crews were battling a structure fire Tuesday afternoon north of the intersection of Beaverhead Lane and Terrace Lake Road. When Ronan Volunteer Fire Department arrived on scene about around 3:30 p.m., flames and smoke had entirely engulfed the apartment and substantial wind bl...
