Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
RONAN — Four Ronan Middle School students spent Friday morning cleaning up vandalism some of their peers had caused a few days earlier. Noah Cheff, Ashtin Courville, Cori Normandeau, and Veyanna Curley took two hours to shovel hay that lay strewn on a corner of Round Butte Road. The m...
ST. IGNATIUS — Time and money are short as the Flathead Joint Board of Joint Control tries to prioritize its involvement in four court cases and negotiation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact. At its Sept. 18 board meeting, the board’s commissioners were divided on whether o...
RONAN – The antique tractor puttered softly as it made a loop around a golden tree illuminated by slanting morning rays. A boy pulled in the barrel cars behind smiled and laughed as his gaze shifted from a balloon animal clutched in his left hand to a falling crisp leaf that he tried to snatch in his r...
K en Weaver was sworn in as Ronan Police Chief Sept. 18. Weaver is the fourth person to hold his position in the past 14 months, but he and Ronan City Council are optimistic that his leadership can revamp the department that has been plagued with problems in recent months. &ld...
POLSON – Two-year-old Marguerite Brenner looked a bit red-faced as she floated across the finish line for the first annual Mission Valley Kids Walk Run 5K in Polson. In some ways the tiny tot had a good reason to be exhausted; five kilos is a long way when your legs are that small, but Brenner...
RONAN — Ronan School District wants to bring its 1.7 percent dropout rate down, and is asking for the support of community members and businesses to help more kids walk across the graduation stage. Curriculum Director Christina Barbachano is in the process of writing a $2,500 to $5,000 grant that wi...
CHARLO — Charlo School Board has delayed hiring coaches for spring sports until its October board meeting, so that its members can consult with school officials to evaluate the coaching staffs’ needs. An evaluation committee consisting of the athletic director, coaches, teachers, and sch...
Ten years ago the Valley Journal was nothing more than a wisp of an idea tossed back and forth on a summer breeze by four local journalists sipping sweet tea on a back porch with ambitions of launching a new, better source of media for the community. By autumn, the dream had turned into reality, and the firs...
HELENA – In a 4-2 vote the interim State-Tribal Relations Committee for the Montana legislature passed a resolution in support of the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact on Sept. 10. Some members of the committee said passing the resolution is important because it ex...
RONAN – Ronan City Council is in the process of asking the public and its employees how best to allocate funds for this year’s budget, after a preliminary hearing last week. City officials used last year’s expenditures as their starting point for the budget, though predicted revenue shee...
