Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
RONAN – Teachers at K. William Harvey Elementary School traded blackboards and grading pens for fry shovels and ice cream cups Dec. 3, as they manned stations at the Ronan McDonald’s during the dinnertime rush hour. This is the second year the Ronan restaurant has allowed teachers to wor...
LAKE COUNTY — It is safe to break out the plastic at local grocery stores again. Spokane-based distributor URM Stores announced Dec. 2 that a cyber attack that stole account information of many customers across the Pacific Northwest was over. The attack affected customers of many banks in Miss...
Bitter cold has snuffed the life out of the last of any fruits and vegetables living along the valley floor in recent weeks; but on the day before Thanksgiving, Ronan High School students dug up radishes in a late harvest protected by a warm greenhouse. The radish growing project is part of a multi-facete...
OPPORTUNITY— Kenneth Teeple, 81, of St. Ignatius was killed in a car wreck that occurred near Opportunity at approximately 9 a.m. on Sunday. Teeple was traveling eastbound on Interstate 90 when his sport utility vehicle left the roadway crossed a fence and hit a bridge embankment, said Anacond...
RAVALLI — As of Monday afternoon the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes had not received an apology from Ravalli County Commissioners in regards to racially offensive statements allegedly made by County Planning Board Chairman Jan Wisniewski of Darby. According to media reports, Wisniewsk...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION — Twenty-two big game animals were scraped from Montana highways and salvaged for the dinner table last week, but it’s unlikely any scenes from the Roadkill Cafe played out in Lake County. “The law does not apply to tribal lands,” Fish Wildlife, and Parks spoke...
POLSON — A man serving a 50-year sentence for the May 27, 2006 kidnapping of an 18-year-old Whitefish woman at a Bigfork festival has asked the Montana Supreme Court to consider new evidence in the case, although it’s unclear what the new evidence is. In a petition filed Nov. 20, Chuck Devlin ...
LAKE COUNTY — Last week’s observance of Thanksgiving isn’t the only reason wild turkeys need not worry about receiving an ill-fated invitation to Mission Valley holiday dinners. Although many populations of the bird roam the Flathead Reservation, a combination of game laws and taste prefere...
RONAN – It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in downtown Ronan, and some credit for that goes to the town’s youth. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Kicking Horse Job Corps students spent the day out in the cold, climbing ladders and twisting Christmas lights around posts and t...
LAKE COUNTY – Online retail is often seen as an arch nemesis of mom and pop stores, but if entering cyberspace for deals is a necessary evil this holiday season there is a way to make sure at least some of the dollars sent zooming across the globe make their way back to Mission Valley. It’s as...
