Articles Written By: Karen Greene
RONAN – One of Kylei BigBow’s friends died by suicide last year. The 17-year-old Polson High School student was so overcome with grief from the loss that she decided she needed to do something about the issue. “I wanted to take that grief to help conquer this,” she said of suicide....
CHARLO – Two speakers traveled to schools across the Flathead Indian Reservation last week to share a message of inclusion wrapped in a comic routine. The speakers stopped in Charlo on Tuesday, Oct. 17 and while they were there also told students about the 4th Annual Indigenous Film Festival showing...
ST. IGNATIUS – Veteran and current military members focused on a different kind of training mission as they walked through the tall grass at a farm on Foothill Road on Thursday. The national program they were involved in, called Armed to Farm, seeks to help veterans develop or start farms through cl...
ST. IGNATIUS – Three seats on the St. Ignatius City Council will be voted on during the mail-in Municipal General Election on Nov. 7 during the only contested election in Lake County. Ballots were mailed out to voters Oct. 18. Mayor Charley Gariepy is not running this year after servi...
The Flathead Joint Board of Control’s forensic audit revealed that $221,000 was taken from the irrigation agency without board approval. During the regular board meeting on Tuesday, FJBC attorney Bruce Fredrickson announced that the audit was finished. He said accountant Jane Schweitzer with ...
RONAN – Drama students at Ronan High School are working on a scary project for Halloween to help fund their program. Drama teacher Jessica Davis wanted to develop a haunted house with her students, so when the theater arts budget was cut in half this year, due to the school’s funding shortage,...
MISSOULA – The Missoula Art Museum opened an exhibit with the photographic work of 14 current and former Two Eagle River School students on Friday. At the museum, three floors are filled with paintings, sculptures, and other mixed media work. Contemporary giant Robert Rauschenberg’s ...
A hot meal can be the centerpiece for socializing or fill the gnawing ache of hunger for those in need. Many free meals in Lake County from Polson to St. Ignatius provide both food and friendship for folks who need either. JourneyBe Pastor John Payne in Polson said people sit down to the weekly meal...
People filled a small candy shop, known as the Hummingbird, on Saturday to say goodbye to Arlee’s longest continuously owned business. Colleen Despain traveled from Lolo to stock up on her favorite treats before the doors closed. Saturday was the last official day the store was open, although the do...
RONAN – Ronan High School senior Teagan Gray, 17, shared her opinion about the impacts of social media during a competition interview as she participated in this year’s Miss Montana Teen USA in Missoula on Sept. 9. She would later take third runner up in the competition. Her quest...
