Articles with the Tag: Arlee schools
ARLEE – The Arlee School Board approved a tight budget for the upcoming school year during the regular meeting, so everything will function as usual, but there isn’t much in building reserves. Superintendent Dave Whitesell explained that building reserves were used for things that might happen...
ARLEE – Dave Whitesell attended his first regular board meeting as the new superintendent of the Arlee School District on July 14. “I’m excited to be here,” he said to the board. “I’ve been here for a couple of weeks and I see a lot of good things in Arlee and things th...
ARLEE – George Linthicum attended his last school board meeting as superintendent of the Arlee School District on Tuesday, and the board thanked him for his work on the budget and advocating for technology in the school. David Whitesell is scheduled to take over the position on July 1. High school s...
ARLEE – English teacher Ashley Gaumer decided not to ask the big question of graduates while she delivered the commencement address during the graduation ceremony on Sunday afternoon. Graduates, she explained, are asked countless times “what are you going to do next?” And she didn’...
MONTANA STATE – Track and field athletes revved their sprinting engines and tested the spring in their feet as class A, B and C took to the course in Laurel, Kalispell and Anaconda last week. Through the trials and tribulations of State competition, some came out on top while some struggled to reclaim ...
Trace Mesteth, 6, stood quietly while two adults dressed him from head to toe in traditional fancy dance attire for the Arlee School Powwow in the gym during Thursday’s annual cultural day. It took his grandfather Allen Pierre hours to create the headdress with porcupine and deer hair that Trace wor...
After battling through a windy Western B-C Divisional tournament Friday and Saturday, Mission-Arlee-Charlo softball clinched the Divisional title in a nailbiter against the Maidens in Ronan. Heading into the final inning with MAC up by two, Maidens slugger Amanda Morency singled in a run, but it wasn&rsqu...
News from Arlee Schools ARLEE — This year for the 41st consecutive year, the Arlee eighth-grade students embarked on the Yellowstone National Park adventure Monday, May 18. Jay Sumner started the program of taking students to the park in the spring of 1975. Back then camping was just the basics. ...
ARLEE — It was time to reorganize the board of trustees during the May school board meeting after Rick Desjarlais’ three-year term was up, although nothing changed. Desjarlais was the only person to apply for the open school board position, so he was re-appointed as chair, and Kris Gardner ...
ARLEE — Coquise Frost, 18, traveled to the Flathead Reservation recently to learn about native culture for a senior research project at her Chicago high school. A self-proclaimed city person, she loves fashion and attends a school that is 98 percent white. She has also never been fishing. &ldq...
