Articles Written By: Karen Greene
PABLO – Divisive is a word used on the Flathead Indian Reservation in the past few years to describe the relationship among community members with varying opinions for things like the Water Compact and even taxes. Leaders in many fields including the financial sector, law enforcement, technol...
ST. IGNATIUS – At the Amish School site on Allison Road, the children were more interested in the baby goats than the Saturday, April 14, benefit auction. The adults, however, busily bid on items bringing in about $28,000. Toby Yoder helped organize the event. He said people in the community d...
YELLOW BAY – Maggie Burnham asked a group of middle school students to imagine they were scraping quagga mussel shells off a dock or other surface during a field trip workshop at the Flathead Lake Biological Station on Thursday. She handed them wooden boards with macaroni solidly glued t...
POLSON – The Lake County Planning Board, tasked with giving the county’s governing body recommendations, voted on their official opinion concerning the Density Map and Regulations during a meeting on Wednesday, April 11. The DMRs are currently used to guide growth and development for rur...
Women are often missing from the applicant pool for careers in technology and a new organization called ChickTech is working to change that. “Having more women in technology benefits the products we make, and diversity changes development teams and increases quality,” said Brigitta Lee, presid...
RONAN – Eight-year-old Cub Scout Tyler Miller, along with the rest of Ronan Wolf Pack 4956, collected food last Saturday to help the local food pantry provide regular emergency food for people in need. “It’s a great project to help people that depend on the Bread Basket,” said Tyle...
RONAN – A beloved community member who volunteered so often he was honored with the title of “Grand Marshal” in several local parades, passed away recently. Community members describe him as someone who helped develop the town of Ronan. Calvin Lindburg, 91, better known as “C...
Marita Growing Thunder, 19, held in tears for a moment as she walked on the back roads last Tuesday to bring awareness to all missing or murdered indigenous women. She was on the third day of a four-day journey across the Flathead Indian Reservation that started at the farthest northern edge and end...
A group of students at St. Ignatius High School have organized to start conversations about mental health and suicide in their school. Their organizing was a reaction to the many completed and attempted suicides that have happened in the county over the past year. Students have had enough direct and indir...
RONAN/PABLO — The Ronan and Pablo School District No. 30’s annual Kindergarten Round Up pre-registration will be held at the Ronan Middle School on Tuesday, April 17, from 8:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m. This registration will be for the upcoming 2018/2019 school year. To be eligible for kindergarten,...
