POLSON — The 31st annual Cowboy Ball rang in areas’ events season at the Polson Fairgrounds on Friday. Started in around 1990, Una Rose Graham of the fairgrounds said the event has gotten bigger every year. Involved since nearly the beginning, Graham explained that the earliest events started out with under 100 attendees and was held in the Ponderae, a restaurant that used to be on Main Street. The event has grown every year since, expanding out of the Elks Lodge and KwaTuqNuk on the way. This year the fairgrounds sold out of the 500 tickets available, making it the biggest Cowboy Ball yet. With a prime rib dinner, silent and live auctions, a bar hosted by Pols...
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.
PABLO — Organizations, both local and nationwide, have come together to honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) and their families by holding the “Step By Step … We Remember” 5K out of the Salish Kootenai College in Pablo on May 6. Held in conjunction with Nation...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION — The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Flathead Reservation held its first Great Futures luncheon since 2019, last week, updating the community on the club, its work, and its impacts. The clubs have come a long way in the community in the last few years, Executive Director Aric...
RONAN — Mission Valley Senior Center, (across from St. Luke’s Hospital), is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday for lunch and other activities. Our menu is: — Wednesday, April 19: lasagna, salad, dessert — Friday, April 21: fried chicken, salad, dessert — &...
POLSON — May Day was originally a Pagan celebration of the start of the flowering season; demonstrated by dancing, play and pleasure. I recall my mother’s Irish/Scandinavian tradition of children leaving a basket of fresh flowers on the porches of strangers, then knocking on the door and gleefull...
ST. IGNATIUS — Please be careful when burning yard waste, papers, and fields. As many of you know a family recently lost their house in a Polson Fire. Our St. Ignatius Senior Center is holding a Mother’s Day Basket Raffle. Some of the items included are a $30 gift certificate to Bev&rsqu...
PABLO — Several Tribal representatives gathered at the CSKT Complex to meet with Congressman Ryan Zinke on April 12 to discuss their concerns and hopes for the bipartisan farm bill currently being drafted. Attendees included representatives from Blackfeet, Little Shell, and Ft. Belknap Tribes,...
POLSON — On April 12, the Board of Adjustments held a meeting to approve or deny the variance request of Vertical Bridge Development, LLC, and the possible construction of a cell tower to be placed on the International RV lot by Paradise Pines on Finely Point. Advocates said that the construction of th...
RONAN — Discussion of a possible subdivision in Ronan continued during a recent Ronan City Council meeting on April 12. Previously presented as a possibility by local surveyor Marc Carstens on Nov. 9 of last year, he returned with more progressed plans in order to keep the city apprised of the...
