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Editor, The ads criticizing Jon Tester for voting to protect the Environmental Protection Agency are downright disgusting. If God gave us pure water and clean air, then the EPA is doing God’s work. Many Americans consider the creation of the EPA by Richard Nixon in 1970 to be one of the highlight...
Editor, Recently, I had the pleasure of engaging in a conversation with a member of the Board of Directors of the Polson Food Pantry, Merle Parise. Merle thoughtfully explained how the accelerating demand for meat is being overwhelmed by the rapidly expanding list of pantry clients. He suggested that the ...
Editor, I’d like to thank our local newspapers for their excellent Veterans Day coverage. Lake County has 3,405 veterans living here, meaning one in nine of your neighbors is a veteran, and 105,838 Montanans are veterans, ranking our state second in veterans per capita. After the ceremony at Rona...
Editor, Bill Moyers, the intelligent, informed, and articulate journalist who is still one very bright spot in the often confusing arena of journalism, said this in the Houston Chronicle, “I don’t think Occupy Wall Street will have the influence they want unless they do what the Tea Party did ...
Editor, The staff and Board of Directors of DOVES (Domestic Violence Education and Services) would like to congratulate Salish Kootenai College’s Niki Graham on receiving the prestigious Honoring the Red Ribbon Award from the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center. Here on the Reservatio...
Fishermen, We are on the verge of the winter fishing season, which I expect should last longer than usual because we are beginning another La Niña winter. I predict one of the best local lakes will be Pablo Reservoir, both because we had an abundance of water last spring so that there was no reas...
Gardeners may be interested in composting extra kitchen wastes after holiday meals with a 30 or 40-gallon plastic garbage bag utilizing a method called anaerobic composting. Composting is a technique used to accelerate the natural decay process. The technique converts organic wastes to a mulch, which is u...
We’ve heard lots about the Bakken oil field and the Keystone XL pipeline. Earlier this month, I was on an informational tour for legislators. Also on the bus were representatives from Sen. Max Baucus, Sen. Jon Tester and Congressman Dennis Rehberg’s staff as well as the from the Montana Departmen...
POLSON — Anneliesa Fenton and Cedric Russell of Polson are proud to announce the arrival of their first child Leilani Barbara Jaylin Russell who was born Nov. 4 at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces. Paternal grandparents are Chad and Dorothea Russell or Ronan. Great-g...
RONAN — Tayshawn Jay Edmo is proud to announce that his little brother, Jaidyn Lachance Rodriguez was born Oct. 26 at St. Luke Community Hospital in Ronan. He weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces. His mother is Samantha Lynn Rodriguez of Ronan, his maternal grandparents are Opal McClure of Ronan and Steve Rodri...
