Articles Written By: Kate Haake
RONAN — For the 71st year, Lake County is preparing for a fun-filled, action-packed county fair. Starting Tuesday, festivities will continue until Aug. 8. This year’s fair has it all, from the usual animal judging to a concert by Rob Quist and Great Northern, featuring Nashville’s ...
RONAN — “Not a soul on this earth cares about your money except you,” my mother said. Mom is one of those women you can’t ignore because like most mothers, she is always right and whatever she says will come to pass. Unfortunately, I always learn this the hard...
POLSON —With a retreat in mind, six young women with six cameras arrived in Polson on July 19. The group of young photographers call themselves Alpha Kappa Camera. Pulled from all over the country, the geographically-improbable friends have more than a few things in common: They’re all f...
RONAN —From rodeos to street dances, the Ronan Pioneer Days’ festivities will charm delighted audiences of all ages. Instead of cramming the Lake County Fair and the Ronan Pioneer Days into just a few fun days, the Pioneer Days Company and the Lake County Fair Board opted to separate th...
CHARLO — At their board meeting on July 20, the Charlo School Board decided to leave the cell phone policy unchanged. School administrators originally decided to amend the cell phone policy to include specific punishments for students caught with their cell phone on the school’s premises...
RONAN — At a Ronan City Council meeting on Monday, the council approved the appointment of Patrick Nobles as the new part-time Ronan police officer. “Most of the (police) departments have only been hiring experienced people,” Ronan Assistant Police Chief Art Walgren said. Nobles...
Despite a century peppered with droughts, depressions, recessions, fires and even a bank robbery, Community Bank has survived and flourished. “I would say it has always been run very conservatively,” Community Bank Board Member Debby Olsson McClenahan said. McClenahan attributes...
Kathie Sammons, a suspect in a case involving the embezzlement of $675,000 from the Whitefish Credit Union in June, is not in custody, Polson Police Detective Alan Booth confirmed on Tuesday. According to several Lake County Sheriff’s deputies and Polson police officers, the investigation is n...
RONAN — The Conoco gas leak cleanup that began 15 years ago may be nearing an end, the Department of Environmental Quality reports. Underneath the abandoned George’s Conoco building in Ronan lies the remnants of a 10,000-gallon gas leak that sprung from a perforated 16,000 gallon underg...
RONAN — Signs displaying the Grim Reaper, cemeteries and the mantra, “Not even once,” have recently crept up along Ronan and Polson streets. The anti-meth signs are part of the Montana Meth Project’s state-wide art competition called Paint the State. Prompting artistically in...
