Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
For the past several years the Ronan Police Department has not consistently met requirements spelled out in state law for hiring officers, and city councilmembers said on June 2 that they have no intention of making standards more stringent before hiring the town’s next police chief. Councilm...
RONAN — Hydrological engineers conducted tests at an abandoned Ronan gas station last week to determine if further environmental remediation is needed to disperse hazardous chemicals remaining in the soil after a 1994 spill of gasoline from a perforated 16,000-gallon storage tank. The Montana Depart...
RONAN – No one was injured when a small plane crashed south of the Ronan Airport Friday afternoon. The plane’s owner, Rick Jennison, said he got a call shortly after noon saying that a renter had crashed the plane into a farm field about a mile south of Ronan airport. The plane sustained...
Six-year-old Brandon McClure had never caught a fish before Saturday. The small boy beamed from ear to ear as his rod bent slightly with the weight of a small rainbow trout pulled from Ninepipe Pond south of Ronan. Friends and family members cheered him on and helped lug the beast in. Once on the ba...
Thirty seniors turned their tassels, tossed their caps, and remembered one who did not live long enough to walk the stage in Sunday’s celebratory graduation ceremony in Charlo. “I realize that all this time I’ve been preparing for the rest of my life,” salutatorian Connor Dau...
RONAN — The weight of several uncontested primaries drove many people to listen to more than a dozen candidates who turned out for a last minute political forum held by the Round Butte Grange 126 last Friday. Most of the candidates that participated were part of races where no one had filed in...
RONAN — After spending eight years integrating themselves into the community and weathering the worst financial crisis in a century, Jim and Debbie Pierce handed the keys of their Ronan auto dealership to new owners last week. For the customers of Pierce Ronan Dodge Chrysler Jeep, the absence ...
UTTE – In Butte on Friday and Saturday, the Chiefs placed 16th overall at the State track and field meet with a team score of 8. Ronan’s Lucas Gerhardt came out ahead for the Chiefs, taking third in javelin by throwing 179-02 and placing sixth in shot put, going 47-11.75. Senior Connor B...
RONAN – The combined generosity of the community and a handful of high school students produced a lasting tribute last week to a Lake County family that spent much of the past three decades caring for children in need. On Thursday, vocational-ag students from Ronan High School unveiled a sign ...
The mayor of Ronan told community members at a public hearing last week that he believes the city’s government has wrangled a pretty sweet deal of improvement projects in exchange for signing off on plans for Highway 93 to expand into land adjacent to Bockman Park. The public in attendance didn’t...
