By Karen Greene Valley Journal POLSON – A man was arrested after walking into the inner perimeter of the Boulder 2700 fire incident area and pretending to be a fire investigator. On Sunday, Aug. 1, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office was notified that a man, later identified as Donald Breese, a 48-year-old Polson resident, was presenting identification to enter the fire area. According to Lake County Sheriff Don Bell, the man was dressed in “typical wildland fire fatigues.” After gaining access to the restricted area, local firefighters recognized Breese “as being someone not associated with the fire effort” and requested an investigat...
St. Ignatius Town Council members accepted the resignations of two employees at their August meeting and heard updates on the ongoing purchase of a building as well as submissions for grant proposals made possible through American Rescue Plan Act funds. First on the agenda was the resignation of Jud...
POLSON — After seven years of fundraising and over a month and a half of construction, the long-awaited 6,100-square-foot revamped Seventh Avenue Skatepark was ready for fun on Saturday. “This is great. I love it,” said Missoulian skater Tucker Cabell. Cabell was one of ...
By Auggie Peterson for the Valley Journal RONAN — Well another day of smoke. Hope all of you are staying safe and staying indoors except to come to the center to eat. The men seem to be enjoying their games of pool and cards. Pool and cards are played the third Monday evening of each month. ...
By Irene Pritsak for the Valley Journal ST. IGNATIUS — A quick reminder: if we have enough folks who come for lunch and who enjoy the game, we will play bingo, as well as after our dinners. It makes for a fun afternoon. A few weeks ago, we sent home a survey of what our delivery clients like or...
By the Polson Senior Center for the Valley Journal POLSON — The Polson Senior Center serves lunch Monday-Friday from 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Menu: — Wednesday, Aug. 11: salad bar, rolls, fruit — Thursday, Aug. 12: hash brown bake, link sausage, blue berry muffi...
Firefighters working on the east shore of Flathead Lake thought they had the Boulder 2700 Fire in check as the sun set on Saturday afternoon. The fire started the night before — the cause is unknown but early indications are that it was started by humans — and throughout the day scooper planes hi...
LAKE COUNTY – As Flathead Irrigation District Commissioner Janette Rosman read about the Lake County commissioners’ decision to halt irrigation repairs, she was a bit perplexed. She first discovered the changes that impact irrigation water through Facebook. She continued to find more in...
Early Monday morning, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes handed over management of the Boulder 2700 fire, burning eight miles east of Polson, to a Northern Region Type 2 management team. CT Camel, fire information officer for CSKT, said the team is geared up to handle major incidents and ca...
Polson City Manager Ed Meece sounded upbeat late Friday afternoon as the community appeared to be emerging from last week’s water crisis. “We’ve recovered a lot of water to the system and a couple of tanks are within four feet of being full,” he said. If that trend continued ...
