Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
ARLEE — A pair of suspected burglars were taken into custody by Lake County sheriff’s deputies and Tribal police Wednesday, Nov. 13, shortly after noon. According to Lake County Undersheriff Dan Yonkin, Tribal police and sheriff’s deputies responded after a report of a possib...
RONAN — A little less than three years ago a happy ending to the story of Marine Lance Cpl. Tomy Parker’s life was a long shot. On Dec. 10, 2010, Parker stepped on an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Afghanistan. He survived the blast and his right leg was amputated just ab...
RONAN — Conductor Dusty Molyneaux spread his arms as wide and high as humanly possible, signaling to the 145 musicians in front of him to get louder and smoother in their playing. Molyneaux then curtly drew his hands together, shook his head, and signaled for the band to stop, as the motions didn&rsquo...
RONAN — The Ronan School District notified state officials and corrected an error in the district’s transportation budget less than 24 hours after the numbers were debated at the Nov. 11 school board meeting, Superintendent Andy Holmlund said. The error, submitted in a budget to county a...
RONAN – Cheerleading will continue to be a sport in Ronan if the squad can come up with the $3,941.91 necessary to fund a coach for the team. Last year, the school decided to cut the sport because of budget constraints, school officials said. Parents and the cheerleaders were made aware of thi...
RONAN — Volunteers from Ronan drove 560 veterans more than 40,000 miles to doctor’s appointments last year, but because of a shortage of transportation some vets were still turned away. “Sometimes we just had too tight of a schedule to do it,” volunteer driver Jack Collins said.&nb...
Laverne Parrish, a World War II Medical Corpsman from Ronan, was honored Monday in a ceremony for paying the ultimate sacrifice for his country. Parrish was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for acts of extreme courage and heroism. According to a citation read by James Pettit at...
RONAN – Significant changes were made to the Highway 93 corridor expansion plan for Ronan in a Nov. 6 meeting between the city council and state and federal highway officials. But a dispute over the impact to Bockman Park halted negotiations that must be resolved if the $40 million project is to be com...
RONAN – An increase in requests for public records over the past two months prompted the Ronan City Council to vote at its Nov. 4 meeting to draft a policy that will charge more for retrieval and copies of public documents. “We’ve had a policy of (charging) 15 cents per page, but w...
MISSION — The St. Ignatius Town Council voted to expand its police force at a Nov. 4 meeting, after several months of research into ways to provide more police protection with few available funds. At previous meetings council members said the town couldn’t afford to hire another officer, but a...
