Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
RONAN — K. William Harvey Elementary School welcomes three new teachers this school year. Dusti Smith is the physical education instructor who recently moved to the area from Fairfield, where she was a special education paraeducator and coach. Smith graduated elementary and high schoo...
RONAN – Nestled against the foot of the Mission Mountains is an incubator, where for almost a quarter century Donna Mitchell has watched young people transition from childhood into the adult world. “You get great students who come in and they change right before your eyes,” Mitchel...
PABLO — Pablo Elementary School has two new teachers joining its staff. Joe DiFulgentis teaches third grade. He hails from Allentown, Pennsylvania and lives in Arlee. DiFulgentis completed student teaching at St. Ignatius Elementary and has also worked as a Title One paraeducator at D...
Charlo School District welcomes 11 new staff members this school year. Shianne DuMont is a first grade teacher who is from the area. She graduated from Salish Kootenai College and has previously taught at K. William Harvey Elementary School in Ronan. DuMont and husband Drew have three boys,...
PABLO — Lake County Sheriff’s Office continues their investigation into the death of a man whose body was found Thursday in Pablo near S&K Holdings. Identified as 69-year-old Bernard F. Carlson, Whitefish, the man was discovered at approximately 4:45 p.m. Aug. 21 in a field north of U.S. High...
BIG ARM – A young girl was injured on Sunday, Aug. 17 at Wild Horse Island State Park while hand feeding fruit to a wild horse. FWP Investigator Brian Sommers said it appeared that one of the horses struck the girl in the back with a hoof, knocking her to the ground. She sustained a bruise to ...
RONAN – Last week a delegation of some of the nation’s highest ranking officials visited the Pablo headquarters of Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes with a promise to help the Tribes reconsolidate lands lost to poor management by the federal government through a land buyback program t...
RONAN — The Ronan City Council began the interview process for police chief last week, as citizens complained about increased crime in the area amid a shortage of officers. “Saturday, my trucks got broken into,” Ronan resident Jeremy Bluemel told council members Aug. 18. “We live r...
LAKE COUNTY — Authorities say seatbelts likely saved the lives of four women involved in two separate rollover accidents that occurred Aug. 19 on Lake County Highways. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Brian Casey said two local underage females were traveling west on Round Butte Road outside of ...
RONAN – The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have long supported the Boys and Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County, but Aug. 14 was the first time the entire Tribal Council has visited the Ronan campus. Tribal Vice Chairwoman Carole Lankford said it was important for t...
