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 Cooksley explained. “The last time we had one of these, we went from a barely opened Ronan Boys and Girls Club with no gymnasium, still trying to put the pieces together, to today we have three clubs in three different area that are in relatively brand-new buildings,” Cooksley stated. “Five years ago, we were serving 110, maybe 120 kids per day total, organiza...
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...
HELENA — The Montana House followed the lead of the state Senate Thursday to endorse a statewide ban on the social media platform TikTok. Senate Bill 419, sponsored by Rep. Shelly Vance, R-Belgrade, would bar the platform’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, from allowing “the operat...
RONAN — The Flathead Water Compact board finalized their bylaws during their April 13 meeting and passed their very first resolutions as a board. The first resolution passed by the board was to establish the spending authority limits for the water engineer. Originally in a draft of the bylaws ...
News from the Polson School District POLSON — By now, your ballot(s) for the Polson School District Bond election should be in route to your mailbox if they haven’t already arrived. Thank you for your consideration of the various issues our aging school infrastructure faces, which you ...
