Articles Written By: Daniel Martynowicz
MISSION VALLEY — It’s election season in the Mission Valley, and two local residents are running for the House District 12 seat in Montana’s legislature. District 12 covers 334 square miles of Lake County from just south of Polson to St. Ignatius, and everything east of Dixon to Pablo an...
RONAN — Montana Supreme Court candidates Laurie McKinnon and Ed Sheehy, as well as the 20th District Court Judge and incumbent candidate Kim Christopher, spoke for several hours at a well-attended presentation in Ronan’s high school auditorium recently. Supreme Court justices serve terms...
The 2012 football season is here, and I’ve got mixed emotions. I played football for nearly 10 years. The memories I have of that stupid game are vibrant, wonderful, heart-wrenching and poetic. However, to attain those memories, I had to go through a lot of pain. If you’re lucky enoug...
RONAN — Montanans young and old showed up en masse Sept. 15 to partake in Ronan’s Harvest Fest. In what has become a yearly fall season staple, the festival featured zucchini races, live music, enormous pumpkins weighing more than 700 pounds, farmers markets, pies, a chili cook-off and m...
RONAN — Two years ago, Ronan city employees saw a 30-cent-per-hour cost-of-living pay increase. Last year, it was only 7 cents. "I wouldn't even call last year's a cost-of-living increase. It was 7 cents. That doesn't even equate to 1-percent (of the worker's salary)," said city council member Roger...
“Deplorable.” “Awful.” “Horrific.” “Beyond description.” “Have you seen ‘Hoarders’ on TV? Imagine that times 100.” These are just a few descriptions offered by police officials and local residents in regard to the li...
RONAN — For many people in the Mission Valley, Bud Cheff Jr. is a storyteller of the highest caliber. Growing up in the Mission Valley, Cheff became fascinated by history and literature at an early age. He soon began collecting historical artifacts, many of which can be seen today in the Ninep...
PABLO — Wilderness lands, national parks and roadless areas occupy a fraction of our modern world. It can be easy to forget what the land looked like before modern civilization, what the animals, trees, rivers and streams once were and what they once meant — and still mean — to the indigeno...
ST. IGNATIUS — At the Sept. 4 St. Ignatius City Council meeting, officials said the first of two water improvement projects could begin by Sept. 17. The origins of these projects date back several years. The project currently being pursued involves an update to the town’s well system.&nb...
RONAN — Johnney Reynolds is a Vietnam War veteran from the Flathead Reservation area. He is also homeless. “(The homeless veterans) are the hardest,” said Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5652 service officer Bert Todd. “There’s always a reason why they’re homeless. ...
