Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
Most days the antique toy trains carefully collected by Preston Miller of St. Ignatius live a life one would expect of relic playthings deemed obsolete by passing decades. They sit, dusty in display cases, longing for appreciation once given by a generation of people who have matured into gray-haired, crinkl...
RONAN — Each time a child makes it home safely on a school bus in Montana, thank a Highway Patrol trooper. When they aren’t out taking bad guys off the streets or clearing wreckage from state highways, the troopers provide an often overlooked, yet essential, task for school safety: inspectio...
RONAN – Less than an hour after excitedly ripping open presents and celebrating a happy Christmas morning, a candle and a bit of leftover gift wrap sparked a fire that left a Ronan family homeless. Lisa Rice said her 8-year-old son Brett woke her up around 9 a.m. to tell her their home was on ...
POLSON — James Raymond resigned as Polson’s city attorney on Thursday, Dec. 26, after a “confidential settlement agreement” was reached in a special Dec. 23 executive session of the Polson City Commissioners. Commissioners spent more than two hours in executive session, with ...
ST. IGNATIUS —Federal Aviation Administration officials investigated an airplane crash at the St. Ignatius Airport on Tuesday, Dec. 24. Rick Newman, airfield mechanic who helped respond to the accident, said the plane veered off the runway, hit a snow berm and flipped upside down during an att...
LAKE COUNTY – From smartphones to tablets and desktop computers to iPods, Christmas 2013 provided the perfect opportunity to splurge on gadgets. The Internet puts the entire world at the fingertips of users, but sometimes the most useful virtual tools are ones that build on networks in real life. The f...
POLSON — A small 2.2 earthquake 12 miles northwest of Polson caused a bit of alarm on Christmas Eve, but the initial shaking wasn’t to blame. The United States Geological Survey sent out a text message to people registered to receive earthquake updates that stated a 22 magnitude earthqua...
RONAN – This is Harry Bean’s second Christmas without his wife, Judy. “I took her with me everywhere I went for 43 years and she didn’t get tired of me, I guess,” Bean said with a laugh. “She always came home.” It’s been many more years since ...
RONAN – The price of accessing public information from the City of Ronan increased substantially last week, as the city council approved a resolution that sets new fees for documents and services. Under the new resolution, the city will charge $35 per hour to search and make copies for records...
RONAN — The future of a $40 million Highway 93 expansion project slated for construction in 2018 could hinge on the January decisions of the Ronan City Council. During a meeting held last Wednesday between design engineers, the Montana Department of Transportation and the City of Ronan, Ronan ...
