Articles Written By: Tetona Dunlap
On a national scale, existing home sales declined last month 3.5 percent to an annual rate of $4.67 million from $4.84 million in June. However, according to the National Association of Realtors this rate increased 21 percent more than the $3.86 million that was set in July of last year. In the Mission Va...
DIXON — Harley Hettick’s passion for melons began when he was just a boy in South Dakota. Hettick learned the melon growing and tasting trade from his Russian grandfather. “He was always looking for the perfect melon,” Hettick said. “I taste tested a lot of melons and I got h...
ST. IGNATIUS —The St. Ignatius School District’s annual yearly progress scores were unveiled at the monthly school board meeting. The district did not meet the AYP goal scores as set forth by the No Child Left Behind Act, but Superintendant Bob Lewandowski said the district would review academic ...
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes are preparing to take over Kerr Dam from PPL Montana in 2015. Currently the tribes are co-licensers with PPL Montana with the exclusive rights to purchase the dam in 4 years. According to CSKT Energy Director Brian Lipscomb, this is a fast timeline to get everythin...
ST. IGNATIUS — The Mission Valley Food Pantry has operated in buildings that once were old liquor stores and hotels. It recently moved to a bigger location, the old Mission Lumber building, to further serve the growing number of families in the area. According to Director Heidi Riddle, the food pant...
DIXON — When Eleanor Clark was in high school she was the only girl in a class of four boys. “That was enough,” Clark joked. “We didn’t need anymore.” Clark graduated from Dixon High School in 1953. In 1977, the hallways of Dixon High School closed. Now the building ...
DIXON – Twenty years ago, Daryl Taylor approached the Hettick family about using their melon crops as the focus of a community celebration. “Daryl and Fritz Wipplinger worked very hard to get it all together,” Joey Hettick said of the two Dixon residents, who have since passed. “An...
ST. IGNATIUS — Just because summer is over, youth can still find ways to remain active during the school year. St. Ignatius fitness staff member Arles Hendrickson plans to continue her three-year program of facilitating the importance of walking. Last year Hendrickson said she had 20 kids who signed...
ST. IGNATIUS — Before Nicholas Gillingham can run onto the field for football practice, he must first recite this string of words: elbow, apple, carpet, saddle and bubble. After completing this Gillingham must then recite the months of year backwards after standing on one foot and touching his nose wit...
RONAN — Diane Marie misses Hawaii. She misses the warm weather and the vibrant rainbows. And even though it was the swirling waters of a tsunami that destroyed her boat home, she misses the water. Instead of sparkling waters outside her windows, she now sees the Mission Mountains rising dark against...
