Schools
RONAN — Head Start celebrated its students and families with the return of its annual powwow at the Ronan School District Event Center on April 28. Though this is the first powwow held for the program since 2019 due to COVID, the student celebration has been a staple in the community for decades. Andrea “Ondi” Adams, a Head Start teacher since 2006, has also been a Head Start student and parent herself. She’s seen the powwow evolve over the years. “It’s really grown,” Adams explained. “It used to be we’d have it at different venues a long time ago. As a parent I remember it being in the Arlee Community Center, it was in...
PABLO — Jade Dempsey, SKC TRIO SSS Scholar and Elementary Education Student, is one of 12 Montana College Students awarded the 2023 Montana Student Volunteer Award. Dempsey is involved in many community service projects, all involving collecting donations for a community organization. Fo...
POLSON — Students from grades five through 12 strutted their stuff on stage last week in the Polson High School Theater Department’s rendition of Mary Poppins Jr. A Disney and Cameron Mackintosh show, the one act play acts as a shortened version of the classic Broadway Marry Poppin...
St. Ignatius — St. Ignatius High Schools 11th grade student, Sheldon McCloud, earned High Honor roll, 3.5-3.9, for the third quarter of the 2022-23 academic school year.
News from MCVA POLSON — Mission Valley Christian Academy (MVCA) is proud to announce the grand opening of its new building, the first phase of its ambitious community center project. The new building will provide MVCA students with state-of-the-art facilities, a science lab, and computer science l...
News from the Polson School District POLSON — By now, your ballot(s) for the Polson School District Bond election should be in route to your mailbox if they haven’t already arrived. Thank you for your consideration of the various issues our aging school infrastructure faces, which you ...
5th Grade 4.0 Annabella Allred Dylan Bennett Elynn Bird Harlow Caye Taryn Cochran Madelyn Coles Brody Dunn Owen Godfrey Ethan Homola Wyatt Knapp Soren Lund Sharae Mahseelah Remi McMahon Aubrie Nash Elliotte Patrick Evaline Reinhardt Frank Schmitz Harmon...
9th Grade 4.0 – Abigail Gillin, Arianna Robine 3.5 - 3.99 – Jayson Brown, Sierra Girsch, Brayden Hall, Lex LaFrombois, Brooklyn McClure, Leslia Stops, Cora Matt 3.0 - 3.49 – Wyatt Branson, Destiny Courville, Jake Helser, Jacob Piedalue, Krugger Pierce, Alecia Steele, Kitra Thomas...
News from the MSGA HELENA — Montana Stockgrowers Foundation (MSF) is accepting applications for its annual Education Heritage Scholarship Program. Scholarships will be awarded to three students in the amounts of one $5,000 scholarship and two $2,500 scholarships. Each year, MSF awards college s...
News from OPI HELENA — Superintendent Arntzen is pleased to announce that 3,493 or 41.6% of 11th-grade students have completed the online ACT during the first testing window. The first window was opened on March 28 and closed on April 6. During the 2021-2022 school year, 90.5% of high school junio...

