Articles Written By: Tetona Dunlap
RONAN — The first Lake County Fair was held in 1938 and included one crossbred beef dairy steer calf that made up the total livestock exhibit. It has now grown to several exhibits that showcase various activities such as shooting sports, talent shows, rabbit showmanship and judging, and a cat show. Tod...
ST. IGNATIUS — St. Ignatius School Board members approved implementing a new way to evaluate and assess teachers in the elementary, middle and high schools. Evaluations will now be based on a four-rubric method within the areas of planning and preparation, classroom environment, professional responsibi...
ST. IGNATIUS— Stacy Allard was seven years old when she saw her first Good Old Days parade. Now she shares this tradition with her own children. “I was your age when I first came to the parade,” Allard told her seven-year-old daughter Brynn Pule. Brynn and her brother Sawyer, 4, were ...
ARLEE – Coral Sherman walks from her seat in the stands at the Arlee powwow grounds and sits in the middle of the stage. She begins to hit the plywood stage with her hands to create a rhythm for her to sing a song in Salish. As a gust of wind pushes through the grounds, kicking up dust, Sherman’s...
ST. IGNATIUS —More than 300 members of the Krantz family celebrated 101 years in the Mission Valley at their family reunion in St. Ignatius. The original Krantz homestead was located three and a half miles south of St. Ignatius. The family moved there in 1910 and lived in tents until the house was f...
ARLEE — In an effort to share presidential speeches or congressional debates in real time with his students, Arlee teacher Jim Polk has tuned into C-SPAN in his classroom on more than one occasion. But it wasn’t until a recent trip to Washington D.C. that Polk realized C-SPAN was more than just l...
ST. IGNATIUS – For the 29th year, Mission Valley residents will gather to celebrate community at Good Old Days, a three-day festival jammed with family events. Festival activities are headquartered at the Good Old Days Park just off Main Street in St. Ignatius from Friday through Sunday, July 22-24....
ARLEE — Bringing the theater and the arts to Arlee is the dream of many in the community. Patty Stevens said it was her father Tom “Bearhead” Swaney’s dream to help create a summer theater in Arlee, just like the one the family attended in Bigfork. “He wanted to enha...
ARLEE — The Arlee Community Development Corporation welcomed the American Legion Post 113 as a new member to their organization July 12. American Legion Post 113 represents the Arlee area and is once again becoming active within the community. Back in April, board members Amy Lisk-Thomas and Ron Snyder...
RAVALLI — A green laser beam pierces the dark blue sky as it shoots from a large telescope manned by Mission Valley Astronomy Club President Leonard Lahaye. The light seems to almost pierce the twinkling white stars overhead like a straight neon green string connecting heaven to earth. Other club membe...
