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Polson middle, high schools earn Montana SMART Schools Recycling awards Polson middle, high schools earn Montana SMART Schools Recycling awards

POLSON – The Polson Middle and High schools were recently awarded for being 2018-19 Montana SMART School Recycling Challenge champions.  The Montana SMART School Challenge, now in its fifth year, challenges schools across Montana to compete amongst each other to see who can save the most money ...

Briefs for May 22, 2019

Two events commemorate, support Rollins Club ROLLINS — To commemorate their over-75 years as a  community service organization, the Women of Rollins Club is hosting a reunion honoring past members, honorary members, current and prospective members on Tuesday, June 11, at noon, at the Rollins ...

Reintroduction of Savanna’s Act offers hope

News from Western Native Voice WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan group of congressional members reintroduced Savanna’s Act. Representatives Torres (D-CA), Newhouse (R-WA), and Haaland (D-NM), working in coordination with the offices of Senators Murkowski (R-AK) and Cortez-Masto (D-NV), crafted...

RMEF lauds congressional reps for rectifying Google snafu

  News from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation   MISSOULA — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation would like to thank Representative Greg Gianforte (R-MT) and Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) for taking swift action to rectify an issue with Google Ads.  “We greatly appreciate the immed...

May is official wildfire awareness month

News from Montana DNRC MONTANA – The governors of Montana and ten other Western states have proclaimed May as Wildfire Awareness Month. Fire prevention agencies and organizations across the state invite all Montanans to participate.  Spring is an ideal time to raise awareness about how we ...

UM Report: visitors spent $3.7B in Montana last year 


UM News Service   MISSOULA – Last year, 12.4 million out-of-state visitors contributed over $3.7 billion in travel spending to Montana’s economy, according to a recent report from the Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at the University of Montana. The latest report finali...

Biological station director elected to National Academy of Sciences Biological station director elected to National Academy of Sciences

UM News Service YELLOW BAY – Flathead Lake Biological Station Director and Bierman Professor of Ecology Jim Elser has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in scientific research. “We are so pleased that the scient...

National Small Business Week celebrates Montana’s entrepreneurial spirit

News from SBA’s Region VIII Administrator Dan Nordberg It was 1963 when President Kennedy issued the first Small Business Week proclamation announcing to the nation the critical importance of local small businesses in our communities.  Here we are 56 years later celebrating National Small ...

Veteran Spotlight Veteran  Spotlight

After graduating from high school in Oklahoma, Charles “Chuck” Whitson went to college on a basketball scholarship. But at that time, lots of guys were being drafted. Joining the military seemed like the thing to do. So on Jan. 15, 1953, he enlisted in the Army for three years. Chuck got his f...

OPI report cards now available

News from the Office of Public Instruction The Montana Office of Public Instruction announced that report cards for Montana schools, districts and the state are now publicly available. The federal Every Student Succeeds Act requires state, district and school-level data to be displayed on report cards i...


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