RONAN — Six Ronan Middle School students have tossed their hats into the ring for this year’s “Paint the State” art competition with each creating artwork with anti-meth messaging that’s displayed in various locations in Ronan. RMS teacher Bill Becker recruited Anaka Hardy, Anastasia Hertz, Kailyn Marengo, Loren Olson, Rayna Tonasket and April Uhrich to join the competition as part of a new elective class he began teaching this year. “I’m a math teacher in Ronan and I have been for 13 years, so this is the first year I’ve ever taught an elective,” Becker commented. “Our whole theme was just basically ‘why no...
News from Big Sky Public Relations on behalf of the Montana Department of Transportation RONAN — Excavation operations continue this week at the project’s north end, north of Baptiste Road. Traffic will be traveling on the southbound lanes, and drivers should anticipate traveling on a gravel...
News from Justin Franz, Montana Free Press FLATHEAD LAKE — Elected officials in northwest Montana are expressing frustration after the Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the many dams and reservoirs of the Columbia River Basin, rejected a plan to send water from the Hungry Horse Reservoir to rai...
MONTANA — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials in northwest Montana are considering instituting “hoot owl” fishing restrictions for the first time on the Flathead River, as well as others, as warm weather and low streamflows threaten the region’s trout, particularly westslope ...
RONAN — Ronan’s annual Crab Fest will return to the Lake County Fairgrounds on July 28 with presale tickets already quickly running out. Started by the Ronan Chamber of Commerce years ago, Crab Fest used to be a smaller endeavor held in the city park each year. In contrast, this year wil...
RONAN — The 2023 Lake County Fair is well underway this week at the fairgrounds in Ronan and will continue through Saturday, July 29. This year’s festivities started off the morning of Saturday, July 22, with the Horse Show and SW Youth Rodeo. The rodeo lets youngsters show their skills ...
ST. IGNATIUS — We would like to say thank to all who came to the pancake breakfast, played bingo and bid on the silent auction items, and thank all the volunteers as well that helped prepare the pancake breakfast and helped serve it. A special thank you goes to the Mission Valley Ranch Hands 4-H Club f...
RONAN — Mission Valley Senior Center is located across from St. Luke’s Hospital. We are open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for lunch and other activities. Our menu is: — Wednesday, July 26: chili, cinnamon rolls, salad — Friday, July 28: roast Beef Dinner, sa...
POLSON — Women’s world cup of soccer opened July 20. Temperature in Sidney, Montana, 79 degrees, the other Sidney 53 degrees. The coaches and fans are wearing down-lined winter coats. Polson, 89 degrees. It’s fire season. Summer was in June if you missed it. We have noted a substan...
News from Alex Sakariassen, Montana Free Press MONTANA — Montana’s Office of Public Instruction on Friday opened public comment on a raft of proposed rule changes impacting the Montana Indian Language Preservation Program, a decade-old initiative to bolster Indigenous language proficiency in...
