Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
MISSION – The St. Ignatius School District has one major campus facelift in the works and another in the fundraising stages. At a Dec. 17 school board meeting, administrators gave reports on the progress of a construction project that will update the exterior of the district’s high schoo...
RONAN — Sometimes spreading Christmas cheer doesn’t require a snowy white beard and workshop of elves to make toys. A kind heart and knapsack full of goodies sufficed for one St. Ignatius woman. Beginning two months ago, Doris Snyder crocheted more than 70 angels and created plastic cros...
ST. IGNATIUS – Every time a bough breaks, a Bulldog gets its wings. Last week, 23 members of the Mission Middle School Dogs With Wings group took profits raised from selling homemade Christmas wreaths, to Polson Walmart in an angelic purchasing frenzy that will provide Christmas presents for 13 Mission...
RONAN – A tiny snowstorm didn’t stop hundreds of Ronan residents from taking to the streets to catch candy and throw their name into the hopper for thousands of dollars in prizes given away at the annual Parade of Lights and Ronan Chamber of Commerce Holiday Treasures drawing on Friday.&nbs...
RONAN – K. William Harvey Elementary School’s first, second, third and fourth grade classes packed the Performing Arts Center Tuesday in the annual “Christmas Carol-Along.” Music teacher Tammy Krahn organized and conducted the show, which included “Joy to the World,&rdq...
More than two decades ago the threat of HIV and AIDS had never crossed the mind of Nancy (who wanted to keep her last name anonymous), a new Montana mother who was trying to raise her prematurely born daughter in the midst of a divorce with her husband. “I grew up in Montana and I don’t ...
LAKE COUNTY — After a high speed chase, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Police took 24-year-old Luis Denobrega, of Olympia, Wash., into custody on Dec. 10 for multiple offenses, including a Dec. 7 drive-by shooting in Pablo. According to Tribal Chief of Police Craige Couture, officers ...
PABLO — Officials at the Pablo Lake County Water Supply District are working against a February 2014 deadline to secure funding for a $1 million water storage project. The project is necessary to lift a connection moratorium that has prevented expansion and development in the town for the past year.&nb...
LAKE COUNTY — Local school districts have revamped safety plans and increased security measures in the year that passed since a gunman stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., but officials say there is still room for improvement. Many schools across Lake County added electronic...
POLSON – Nothing Santa brings in his sleigh this Christmas will compare to the gift 7-year-old Cole Whitworth of Polson has already received: his health. After 15 months and eight rounds of chemotherapy along with five rounds of radiation treatment, Whitworth and his mother Cecile LaFromboise traveled ...
