Articles Written By: Tetona Dunlap
Wacey McClure, 9, wades knee high into the cool waters flowing through a canal near Swartz Lake. When McClure submerges a long plastic tube called a turbidity tube into the water, pockets of air bubble to the surface, as he makes sure it is filled to the top. This device measures the clarity of the water. An...
On Nov. 2, 2004, 64 percent of Montana voters passed Initiative 148, the Montana Medical Marijuana Act, which created a statewide business that seemed to boom over the years. Last month that momentum was quelled by senate bill 423, which became law on May 14. The bill amended the state’s previous medic...
ARLEE — About six years ago Roxane Rinard wanted to attend her granddaughter’s mini powwow but she didn’t know when it started. At that time, if you wanted to know what was going on in Arlee you had to check the community bulletin board in town. So Rinard, a software engineer, decided to cr...
ARLEE —Arlee High School students and their parents will notice some changes to their schedules, credit requirements and the way they can pay for meals and fees at school this fall. The Arlee School Board voted unanimously during a June 14 meeting to raise the number of credits required for graduati...
ST. IGNATIUS—Preston Miller was just an 11-year-old boy living in Pennsylvania when he collected his first Native American artifacts. Miller bought axe and arrowheads for $15 at an auction and stored them in a glass case beside his bed. This purchase helped shaped a lifelong interest of Native Ameri...
PABLO — The 2011 graduates of Salish Kootenai College received their degrees and words of wisdom from several speakers Saturday, June 11. They were congratulated and told to be lifelong learners and leaders. “Your degree or certificate from SKC is only the beginning of your success,” Ern...
ARLEE — Kathy and Pat Clarkin knew all winter that flooding was going to be an issue in the spring. They had kept in contact with Tim Orr, supervisor of the Jocko division of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project, who told them the area had seen record snowfall and moisture was extremely high. The ...
RONAN — Hundreds of food anthropologists and food and nutrition academics from all over the country and the world gathered in Arlee and Ronan last weekend to tour the Western Montana Growers Co-Op and the Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center. The tours were part of a “Food and Agriculture Unde...
ST. IGNATIUS—Valedictorian Adessa Durglo said she always considered herself a loner. That is until she met her classmates at St. Ignatius High School. “Now my wolf pack has grown by 21,” Durglo said. The 22 graduates comprising this year’s graduating class of 2011 have much to b...
ARLEE — On March 6, 2008, Francis Pierre was found not guilty of assault against his son’s basketball coach by a trial jury in Libby District Court. Now Pierre is fighting to lift a permanent ban that does not allow him to attend Arlee School events on and off school property. “I&rsqu...
