Articles Written By: Shay Farmer
POLSON — Citizens of Lake County made their voices heard through Democratic channels, and the County Commissioners listened. On March 2 a vote over a controversial motion to repeal the county’s density map was up for consideration. The Commissioners voted 2-1 to keep the map and review it further...
ST. IGNATIUS — The Mission Mountains prove a perfect backdrop for Coco’s Bicycle Shop, located just outside city limits of St. Ignatius. Thousands of bikes, bike parts, and other odds and ends are orderly littered as far as the eye can see. Coco Blood, owner of the shop, is quite handy and has be...
POLSON — Last year, 1,800 firefighters, including a team from Polson, came from across the northwest to climb 69 flights of stairs in full fire gear at the Columbia Center in Seattle. The fundraiser helped raise $2.2 million for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. A team of five men and one woman wil...
POLSON — Outside of the Montana Co-op, drumbeats are heard in preparation for class. Inside, sisters Jessi and Jonnie James bop about, getting warmed up and ready to dance for the Indigenous Dance Academy, taught by Naomi Billedeaux. The club meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:45-4:45 p.m. and is open...
POLSON — It all began in 2010 with a grant written to inventory all the trees within Polson city limits. This inventory began the city’s exploration into the Geographic Information System. This helps create concise layering of the city’s utilities from various city departments into on...
HELENA — Montana dairy businesses were left on edge as an Economic Interim Committee hearing drew to a close. Without a solution or timeline to proposed fee increases, no clear answers emerged from the meeting of invested stakeholders. The fees would support the Department of Livestock’s $130,000...
POLSON — When a child suffers from abuse or neglect, Court Appointed Special Advocates volunteers are called to assist during the tumultuous time. The number of child abuse and neglect cases in Lake County has nearly doubled two years in a row, creating an even greater need for the CASA volunteers. ...
