Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
ST. IGNATIUS – St. Ignatius Town Council voted May 5 to withhold final payments for a water improvement project until the contractor in charge can fix certain problems and ensure completion. The project, started in June 2014 after significant delays, was supposed to be completed in 90 days. Almost a...
ST. IGNATIUS – Townspeople are not happy as police response times lag and a stray dog problem continues to grow in St. Ignatius as the town enters its fifth month without a police chief. After listening to several people speak about various problems at the Town Council’s May 5 meeting, Mayor C...
ST. IGNATIUS – Irrigators who use the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project to water their crops will likely see a significant increase in fees on their next assessment bills, as project managers try to raise funds to tackle millions of dollars of improvements needed to keep the decades old, dilapidating ...
RONAN – In a county where cows out number people 2 to 1, beef burgers are a staple part of the economy and a frequent dinner table favorite, but a Ronan-based company is trying to use locally sourced plant products to make a new kind of delicious, vegetarian burger alternative that also benefits the Mo...
ST. IGNATIUS – If you see neon-clad, hard-hat wearing workers toiling away along the roadside in Lake County, they might not be road workers. The Flathead Indian Irrigation Project recently tightened its safety regulations after a severe injury to one of its workers. “He was sta...
ST. IGNATIUS – There were only a handful of irrigators on hand for the Bureau of Indian Affairs bi-annual meeting for the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project and it appears a communication disconnect between the BIA and Flathead Joint Board of Control might be to blame. The May 5 meeting was an...
The heyday of cross country cattle drives are more than a century past, but for a moment on Saturday it was almost as if time stood still as men and women on horseback drove horses and cattle several miles through the Round Butte community. More than 100 horses and mules were first driven across Slo...
HELENA – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena has released the names of dozens of clergy people accused of wide-reaching sexual abuse that dated back to the 1930s, spanned several decades and included a number of victims who attended a now-defunct church-affiliated boarding schools in St. Ignatius.&nbs...
RONAN – Community leaders, school officials, and high school seniors spent April 30 teaching K. William Harvey Elementary School students that smart choices, diligence and high school graduation are building blocks to a prosperous future. Festivities included a Graduation Matters ceremony and girls car...
CHARLO – Charlo Schools would likely have to find some substantial grant monies to make installing a biomass boiler worth upfront costs because of relatively low fossil fuel prices and loan costs, an architect told the school board April 22. Nathan Ratz of CTA Engineering recently completed a ...
