Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
CHARLO — The faces of Charlo High School art students will change as they get older. Hormone-fueled blemishes will transform into clear skin that will only give way to wrinkles as time ticks ahead. But as the image in the mirror changes, students will have a small slice of their lives to...
ST. IGNATIUS – A Jan. 31 settlement agreement with the Diocese of Helena sets aside millions for victims and marks the penultimate chapter in the fallout of more than three decades of horrendous systemic sexual abuse that occurred at numerous Catholic establishments in the western United St...
RONAN – Friday marked the beginning of a new era for Bockman Park, connecting trails and other green spaces within the city of Ronan, as a newly formed nonprofit laid its foundation. The first board meeting of Friends of Ronan Parks and Trails, also known as FoRPAT, consisted mostly of finalizing pa...
ST. IGNATIUS — This July the St. Ignatius airport will receive $4,800 in grant funds and a $10,000 loan to purchase a tractor and brush hog to mow the facility. On Jan. 29 the Montana Aeronautics Board announced the award as one of 32 made statewide that totaled more than $875,000. The project...
CHARLO — “Love” and “math” aren’t two words Katie Revis is accustomed to putting together. The subject isn’t a favorite of the Charlo junior, but she and her classmates spent last week espousing their affection for quadrilaterals and geometric concepts. Geom...
While Americans watched an anti-climatic blowout that concluded the season of the nation’s favorite sport on Feb. 2, Ronan’s Seventh Day Adventist Church crossed their fingers in a nail-biting ending to a charitable event that parodies the sporting event and brings food to families who might othe...
POLSON — On Saturday, after a six-day trial, a jury unanimously found 30 year-old Melvin Madplume, Jr. of Ronan guilty of deliberate homicide and sexual assault without consent of his cousin Laurence Kenmille, 28, who died at Wild Horse Hot Springs on May 25, 2013. Sentencing is set for March 28. Ma...
POLSON — Marcus John Azure, 24, was booked into Lake County Jail on Saturday on charges of felony attempted deliberate homicide and felony assault with a deadly weapon. Lake County Undersheriff Dan Yonkin said officers were dispatched to a fight in progress in Ronan with reports of a male with a kni...
RONAN — Bitter cold, blowing snow and slippery ice pose winter obstacles for man and beast that call Mission Valley home, but people and animals alike have adapted over generations to make life survivable in the hardest part of the season. “When you think about snow, remember that there are th...
LAKE COUNTY – Pablo Family Foods and Blacktail Grocery were the only Lake County stores affected by a credit data breach that occurred sometime between Sept. 1, 2013 and Nov. 24, 2013. The credit breach was part of a larger scheme that impacted more than 70 stores in Washington, Mon...
