Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
ST. IGNATIUS — Irrigation commissioners for the Flathead Joint Board of Control refused to increase assessments on their constituents last week, despite a request from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to do so. It is unclear what the ramifications of not instating the 29 percent operations and maintenan...
RONAN – Every little farmer and rancher in the valley will have shined their boots, glittered their bulls, and washed their goats as they prepare to strut their stuff in the Lake County Fair this week. The 4-H centered event has been going on since last Saturday, but all of the large animals a...
RONAN — Charlo School Board Chairman Shane Reum will continue to serve on the district’s board and as an assistant junior varsity boys’ basketball coach in the upcoming year, after addressing concerns about a possible conflict of interest at a July 21 board meeting. Reum said he re...
RONAN — A Ronan man was sentenced to 10 years in the Montana State Prison on July 29 for killing a toddler last year. Galen Hawk, 26, was also ordered to serve 13 months in the Montana Department of Corrections after the first punishment was complete, with an additional three-year sus...
RONAN — A Bigfork teen sobbed and thanked the judge for giving him a second chance after he was sentenced for hitting a Polson school bus filled with 10 children and one driver in May. On July 22, Daniel Fellows, 19, after previously pleading guilty to two counts of felony criminal endangerment...
RONAN — A lightning strike caused a large pile of round hay bales to catch fire at Round Butte Road and Gillette Lane on Wednesday, but fast thinking neighbors and the Ronan Volunteer Fire Department were able to minimize the losses. The fire started after 3 p.m. and neighbor Shane Orien immed...
PABLO — A Charlo teenager died from injuries sustained in a July 12 traffic wreck. According to Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jim Sanderson, at approximately 12:30 a.m. the southbound truck driven by Brett Krantz, 15, of Charlo, drifted off the left side of Highway 93 near mile marker 51, ret...
A soggy start didn’t rain on the Good Old Days parade, as folks came from all around to visit with old friends, show their community spirit, enjoy some good eats and have a good old time. Fred Gariepy has volunteered for the event for each of the 33 years it’s been going on, and said the...
MISSOULA – A man serving a life sentence without parole for a grisly 2004 murder has asked for a defense attorney so he can appeal the federal United States District Court of Montana. In a self-written appeal notice James Arthur Couture, 56, asked for an attorney, but did not list on what grou...
RONAN — They started out as a few pioneering farmers who gathered in rotating venues, speaking in a foreign tongue, bound together by a resilient faith. The St. Paul Lutheran Church in Ronan will celebrate its centennial at the end of July. “We are very proud of our church,” member Marga...
