Articles Written By: Caleb M. Soptelean
POLSON — For the second consecutive year, Lake County Jail inmates will be getting a little something extra for the holidays. May Simmons is organizing an inmate holiday gift bag distribution. Last year 55 inmates received a gift bag on Christmas Eve and something sweet with their Chr...
POLSON — The Montana Legislature was able to fill a projected $227 million budget deficit during a special session held mid November. State Rep. Greg Hertz, R-Polson, said it was a difficult task. Some legislators met for committee meetings on Monday, Nov. 13, and the session official...
POLSON — How to proceed in case an impending 100-percent budget cut goes into effect was the main topic of the Flathead Basin Commission on Nov. 12. The FBC, which met at the Lake County Courthouse, did not have a quorum of members present but some 25 people in attendance had plenty to say. ...
POLSON — A 28-year-old Hamilton man faces multiple charges following a high-speed chase, according to the Polson Police Department. Jay Donovan Vallejo was charged on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle, theft of residential property, fraud, deceptive practices, reckless driving, driving while sus...
POLSON – A 39-year-old Polson woman faces charges related to thefts from four area homes. Jennifer Michelle Fairchild was charged with four burglaries that took place from Sept. 11 to Oct. 22 and one count of tampering with evidence. Various items, including a .357 Python pistol, were stolen f...
RONAN – Students at K. William Harvey Elementary were given a chance to dance the day before Thanksgiving. The activity, the school’s first-ever powwow, was held in conjunction with Native American Heritage Month. Teachers Dusti Smith and Nicki McLure-Krahn, the latter of Salish and B...
POLSON — More family fun is one of the goals for this year’s Parade of Lights. The annual parade, which begins at 6 p.m. this Friday, Dec. 1, at Cherry Valley Elementary, will run in the opposite direction as last year’s parade. After starting it will go down Main Street and end in front...
POLSON — A former local Children’s Protective Services employee has been charged with rape. Chase Joseph Ripley, age unknown, was charged with one count of sexual intercourse without consent for allegedly forcing a woman client to have sex with him. According to a court document, Ripley wen...
POLSON — Lake County Attorney Steve Eschenbacher has decided not to charge Ryan Black for the shooting death of Johnny Thomas McKeever. Black, 28, was initially arrested on suspicion of deliberate homicide and served two days in jail before being released with a GPS-monitoring device following...
POLSON — A former editor of the Lake County Leader began serving a 10-day jail sentence last week for a misdemeanor “privacy in communications” convictôn after his appeal to the state Supreme Court was rejected. Vincent Caesar Lovato Jr., 56, has been in jail since Tuesday, Nov. 14...
