Articles Written By: Caleb M. Soptelean
RONAN — Several K. William Harvey Elementary students got to show some gratitude last week. Nine fourth-graders in a leadership group distributed gift baskets to emergency responders and police officers in town. The students, who are part of the inaugural leadership group put together by se...
POLSON — Local filmmaker Frank Tyro got emotional while working on “Walking Bear Comes Home.” “There were times I just had to walk away and come back to it,” he said, referring to the 57-minute documentary about the life of his mentor and friend, the late Charles Jonkel, a ...
POLSON — Lake County is the sixth county in the state to ban the use of electronic cigarettes in public places. It is now unlawful to smoke e-cigarettes in a place of work or an enclosed public space or within 25 feet of such a building. Lake County Commissioners unanimously passed a resolu...
POLSON — The city of Polson and its engineer have settled a lawsuit brought against them by Sandry Construction Co. of Bigfork. City Manager Mark Shrives said he signed the papers two weeks ago. The city will pay $8,000 in the settlement and did not admit any wrongdoing, he said, adding tha...
POLSON — Lake County is undergoing the process of repealing its density map and then approving it for use as an advisory document, county commissioners said last week. County Planning Director Jacob Feistner said the goal is to repeal the 2005 document — which is a standalone document used for...
POLSON — Montana’s congressman came to town last week to meet locals and discuss goings-on in the nation’s capital during the past seven months since he was sworn in. Rep. Greg Gianforte spoke at Lake City Bakery & Eatery for an hour Wednesday morning, Jan. 24, and touted the i...
POLSON — Patrick Allen Pierre was sentenced for his eighth and ninth DUIs earlier this month. Missoula District Court Judge John W. Larson sentenced Pierre, a Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal elder and Plains resident who turned 89 on Jan. 28, to four years and one month in the Departme...
POLSON — The National Federation of Independent Business and eight Montana businesses filed suit in Lake County District Court last week against the state for alleged breach of contract and constitutional violations because of a new law that imposed a 3-percent management fee on the Montana State Fund ...
POLSON — A number of little ones are getting an early education, thanks to some grant funds. Rhonda Crowl, principal of Cherry Valley Elementary and overseer of the new Stars Preschool, said it is one of 19 across the state that are benefitting from a two-year state grant. Polson received $...
POLSON — A shooting Wednesday afternoon on Sanders Street in Arlee left one man dead. Leonard L. Peak, Jr., 49, of Arlee died from a gunshot wound, according to a press release from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. A call came in at 3:35 p.m. and the LCSO, tribal police and emergency...
