Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
RONAN — Ronan’s city council has had a few suggestions from townspeople regarding what should be done with the new city property located at the northeast corner of Main Street and Third Avenue, but is asking for more input on the matter. Commonly referred to as the “Bilile property...
ST. IGNATIUS — St. Ignatius Town Council on Oct. 8 approved a proposed a 20 percent increase in water rates and 10 percent increase in sewer rates. If it successfully makes it way through the public hearing process, the rate increase will be the first proposed by the town council in five years...
RONAN — Sadee is much too quiet to roar. She’s more content to sun in a bit of light passing through a window or snuggle as a child combs their fingers through her neon orange mane. The 5-year-old Great Dane has become the mascot of story time at Ronan library. “She really...
MISSOULA – The Flathead Joint Board of Control dropped a pending motion for a temporary restraining order on Oct. 2, four days before a hearing that was scheduled to come before Judge Dana Christensen on Monday. Flathead Joint Board of Control Chairman Wayne Blevins said the board wi...
RONAN – Billie Lee’s ability to dream is one of the qualities she and those who know her well say is one of her greatest assets. But the retiring executive director of Lake County Community Development Corporation could scarce have guessed two decades ago the dividends her ambitious nature ...
RONAN — Local business owners are concerned a proposed plan for the expansion of Highway 93 has the potential to gut accessibility to many of the stores that drive Ronan’s economy. In a town meeting last week, designers for the KLJ Engineering explained the proposed access control plan f...
America remembers them as heroes, as brave and strong grown men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country. But the mothers of servicemen and women lose more than a warrior when their children are killed in the line of duty. They lose their babies. “He was a very cautious child. He ...
RONAN – The preliminary budget for the City of Ronan’s current fiscal year allows for staff raises and one-time expenditures that the town government has not always had funds for in the past. “There were years when we had to keep cutting things to get (the balance) to come to zero,...
ST. IGNATIUS — The Flathead Joint Board of Control worked last week to create a document that will articulate exactly what its members want included in and excluded from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact. The state attorney general and governor’s office have offered to ...
POLSON – Lake County District Judge Deborah Kim Christopher ruled last week that families of two teens killed in a 2011 crash near Arlee should not receive all of the $248 million in punitive damages awarded them by a jury earlier this year. In May a jury determined a defective steering knuckl...
