Articles Written By: Melea Burke
RONAN — The artists may starve, but clients of the Ronan Bread Basket won’t after Willard’s Starving Artist Show and Silent Auction raised $1,540 in cash and collected 430 pounds (22 boxes) of canned goods and non-perishable foods for the local food bank. Local artists Julie Moore, Craig...
RONAN — A storage shed on the 600 block of Eisenhower Street SW burned down in just a few minutes last week. The fire started around 7 p.m. May 8 and quickly engulfed the storage building, also damaging the owner's house and a neighbor's shed. The house was mostly empty, as it was being remodeled, Rona...
In a wet, windy weekend of tennis, the Polson boys and girls were nearly perfect, dropping only two of 33 matches. After traveling to Whitefish Friday for a Polson sweep, the Pirates and Lady Pirates hosted Columbia Falls and Stevensville Saturday until the weather cut things short later in the afternoon. ...
The Chiefs and Maidens tennis teams had a tough week, dropping all the boys’ matches and winning just four of the girls’. On May 1, Ronan had no room for error against visiting Loyola Sacred Heart. The Maidens’ only wins that day came from singles athlete Amber Metzger, who sent Loyola&rsqu...
EUREKA — A Maiden softball team hungry to continue its winning streak wasted no time trouncing the Lady Lions in both halves of a May 1 doubleheader in Eureka. Ronan’s Jasmine Bocksnick went 3 for 3 in both games, with three doubles and an RBI in the opener and another double and two RBIs in the ...
The Polson softball team chalked up three non-conference wins last week, but couldn’t quite hold up to a powerful Frenchtown assault at home Thursday. Heidi Rausch clocked in a solo home run to start out scoring for the Lady Pirates in the bottom of the second inning, but during their next at-bat, t...
RONAN — A 4-wheeler thief led law enforcement on a high-speed chase between 2 and 3 a.m. Friday along back roads outside of Ronan, eventually crashing the stolen vehicle in a field. Leroy Black III, a 21-year-old Ronan resident, faces three felony charges among others stemming from the incident, Lake C...
With as many injuries and absences as 10 Sticks has had to deal with lately, one would expect the young lacrosse club to be somewhat less than exuberant about its current situation. That is certainly not the case, despite sitting 3-5 on the season, because lacrosse is much more than a game for these young at...
The weekend was packed full of softball for the Polson Lady Pirates, who went 2-2 at the Frenchtown Invitational tournament. The two-time defending state champions are 6-4 on the season, which is a little behind the team’s usual pace, head coach Larry Smith noted. “(But) we’ll work it ou...
The Maidens softball team had no problem blowing by Butte Central Saturday at the Frenchtown Invitational, where Ronan scored 15 runs in the first inning and sent the ladies from Butte home early, with the game called after four innings due to the 10-run margin rule. Senior catcher Lindsay Clairmont led t...
