Articles Written By: Linda Sappington
POLSON — An upcoming seminar will teach participants how take steps in advance to avoid situations where self-defense is necessary. The NRA’s “Refuse to be a Victim” class, taught by certified instructor Tracy Plaiss, will be held Saturday, June 20, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Nor...
ST. IGNATIUS — Will Powell was only 7 years old when he learned to team rope. By age 9, he was team roping competitively, adding calf roping and steer wrestling — “chute dogging” —during his high school rodeo years. The Mission High School senior is set to graduat...
PABLO — Many women wait all year for the Women 4 Wellness 7th annual health fair, and the time has come. It’s scheduled for Thursday, May 14 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center. To avoid waiting in line to enter, participants may preregister online at preven...
POLSON — Desmond MacKay, 36, Polson, charged in March 2014 with deliberate homicide in the death of John Barrows, appeared before Judge Deborah Kim Christopher Thursday and pleaded guilty to mitigated deliberate homicide. The charge drew discussion due to the court’s “significant reserva...
POLSON — Karen McNenny has great advice for anyone considering becoming a boss: “I will talk you out of leadership. You get a buck more an hour and it’s not worth it,” she said, “but it’s exceptionally rewarding.” Each spring members of the Lake County Job Service...
MISSOULA — Local special needs athletes from Polson Schools and Mission Mountain Enterprises competed in the regional Special Olympics held in Missoula on April 22-24. Polson schools Athletes from Polson Middle and High School had been practicing weekly since late February, swimming at the Missio...
A Ronan family has given a young girl a second chance at life, and her new community is supporting the effort. Lily Crist came to America two years ago, adopted from China by a Ronan family. The 15-year-old with long dark locks had spent her entire life in an orphanage, where care for her hereditary blood...
RONAN — The Ronan Jazz Band performed during their annual dinner dance in the high school gym Friday after returning the prior weekend from concerts in California. The band played at Disneyland’s California Adventure Backlot Stage and a veteran’s home in Barstow, California, where many form...
A Ronan man who has served nine years of a 20-year sentence may be out on parole by late April, but will not be allowed within Lake County or the Flathead Indian Reservation. Edward Ness was convicted of felony tampering with evidence, a penalty in 2006 that was much more severe than the misdemeanor offen...
Easter dawned over the Missions through a thin veil of fog as a full moon, fresh from an eclipse, set to the west — timed perfectly with believers celebrating Resurrection Sunday at sunrise services. Folks from Lighthouse Christian Fellowship gathered at the peak of Rocky Butte, south of Ronan...
