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From MSU News Service BOZEMAN — A new study from a Montana State University researcher and his colleagues provides evidence that the labor market tightened for the nursing workforce throughout the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a period marked by falling employment and rising wages across the industry. The paper, “Nurse Employment During the First 15 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” was published today in the January issue of the journal Health Affairs. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Current Population Survey, which is administered monthly by the U.S. Census Bureau, the study identified and described the immediate economic impact...
POLSON — A local gymnastics gym, Head Over Heels, has reopened after being shut down due to the pandemic. What began as a few private classes at the Mission Valley Christian Academy in the summer of 2010 by owners Jessica and Jason Edwards and their four children, grew to a full-fledged busine...
ST. IGNATIUS – Nestled beneath the picturesque peaks of the Mission Mountains, just off US Highway 93 in St. Ignatius, Mission Valley entrepreneur Donald Pierce recently launched a full-service meat processing facility. Since its grand opening back in October, D& J Meats has been inundated with ...
RONAN — The Northwest Food Hub Network has been awarded a $1 million grant as part of the Regional Food Systems Partnership grant program, the USDA announced. Part of a collective of farmer-owned cooperative food hubs spanning across Montana and Washington, the Northwest Food Hub Network aims ...
December marks two years since news of COVID-19 started to rumble global headlines, and in those 24 months people, businesses, and governments have seen more change than entire decades of the past. As businesses, families, and state leaders look forward into 2022, sometimes weary of words like “pivo...
News from Terry Rosengarten Unity Bank POLSON — Unity Bank is relocating down the road to 104 Ridgewater Drive in Polson. They will be operating out of a temporary structure on the property while they build their new office building. The old location will be open through 12 p.m. on Dec. 31. ...
RONAN — Montana’s first cooperative brewery recently celebrated its one-year anniversary. Though the doors of the Ronan Cooperative Brewery have been open for 15 months, the business model of the Co-op, as the town affectionately calls it, was embraced by the community back in 2017. Prop...
Last summer, a Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation survey of 1,327 front-line health care workers in the United States showed that medical burnout had reached epidemic proportions, accelerated by the COVID pandemic. According to a story by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the surve...
News from the Flathead Lake Museum POLSON — Recently members of the Polson Flathead Lake Museum Board, assisted by a forklift and driver provided by Western Building Center, met at the museum to move our newly purchased roofing material into a dry, safe environment inside the museum, while we awai...
News from the office of Senator Daines U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines returned from a successful trip to India where he met with India’s top trade official, Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, and Indian pulse crop buyers to improve market access for Mo...
