Articles Written By: Summer Goddard
Randy Holmes speaks with fellow Rock Point Road residents about traffic impacts from the new casino being built north of Polson. About 30 citizens gathered for the May 15 meeting held at the Masumola Club. Making a lefthand turn onto US Hwy. 93 toward Polson is already difficult to do, and even more so durin...
RONAN — Mission Valley fourth graders learned about all things ag last week during the annual Ag Days event held at Mountain Shadow Cattle Ranch April 30 and May 1. Spread over two days to accommodate the number of participating schools, fourth grade students from Polson Ronan, St. Ignatius, Mission...
Residents of Polson, Ronan and St. Ignatius communities opted to review their current form of government in the June 2024 primary election and that process is now underway. The option for local government review is unique to Montana and was added to the state’s constitution in 1972 to give...
HOT SPRINGS — Canon fire heralded the start of the 13th annual Lunar New Year parade held last Saturday in Hot Springs. Also known as the Chinese New Year, the Lunar New Year officially began on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Saturday’s parade participants dressed in brightly colored animal costumes repr...
More than one in every five Montanans, including approximately two in every five children, have health care coverage under the state’s Medicaid program. The program covers costs of physical, behavioral, emergency, vision, dental and long term care health services at low or no cost to those eligible. Th...
Building bigger, better rockets for astronauts to go to space in is what 11-year-old Tobias Becker of Ronan wants to do when he grows up. The future rocket scientist traveled to Florida last month to learn more about careers in space as part of the 2024 SpaceKids Global Press Squad. Tobias became a member...
LAKE COUNTY — Beef cattle is the state’s leading moneymaker, a fact that holds true at the local level with the county home to many cattle operations – both large and small. According to an MSU Census of Agriculture, more than 67% of land in Lake County is classified as farm land. Montan...
As the holiday season is approaching, Chapter CA members of P.E.O. decided again to forgo exchanging gifts with each other at Christmas and instead, donate money for clothing items for Cherry Valley and Linderman Schools. Nurses and guidance counselors from the schools were asked to generate a list of sizes ...
Nearly a month out exactly from the Nov. 5 general election, Senator Jon Tester, the incumbent Democratic candidate for one of Montana’s two senate seats, visited with voters at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo and at the Lake County Democratic headquarters in Polson. Confederated Salish and Kootenai T...
