Articles Written By: Melea Burke
Three years ago, I watched "Fargo" for the first time. A week later, I moved to Montana. My family spent the days in between teasing me about moving to "the middle of nowhere" in their best Marge Gunderson impressions — "...and it's a beautiful day!" My geography wasn't so off that I believed their tau...
MOIESE — Despite a gray, drizzly day that threatened rain and snow, a group of Dixon Elementary students had bushels of fun during a field trip Friday to Foust Farm in Moiese. The event was organized in honor of Global Youth Service Day by Montana Energy Corps volunteer Anna Rebellino, who works wit...
ARLEE — Nearly 400 walkers and runners turned out on a beautiful spring morning in Arlee for the annual Buttercup Run, a fundraiser for the Friends of Arlee School, Inc. The fun run is the group’s major fundraising event, allowing the Friends to provide scholarships and school supplies not cov...
The numbers are in, and according to the 2010 U.S. Census, Montana’s largest Indian reservation grew 8 percent larger over the past decade, to a population of 28,359. The Flathead fits right in with a population growth trend that increased on four of Montana’s seven reservations, with Rocky Bo...
The Policy Institute, a liberal think tank in Helena, released a report entitled “Profiles in Hypocrisy” on March 11. The report listed 33 currently serving legislators who received conservation, disaster and commodity subsidies during the 14-year period from 1995 to 2009. The point of t...
ST. IGNATIUS — A new face took over the reins of the Mission Police Department Monday, Mayor Charley Gariepy said. John Parker, of Dillingham, Alaska, was recently hired as full-time police chief. The department now has two full-time officers. Acting police chief Tony Buff and officer Scott Sciarett...
The numbers are in, and according to the 2010 U.S. Census, Montana’s largest Indian reservation grew 8 percent larger over the past decade, to a population of 28,359. The Flathead fits right in with a population growth trend that increased on four of Montana’s seven reservations, with Rocky Boy I...
MOIESE — It was an event that drew riders from around the world, intrigued by the idea of spending a day on horseback on a range where the buffalo still roam. But organizers of the 57-year-old National Bison Range Trail Ride say they’ve been kicked out of the Bison Range for “bogus” r...
POLSON — Eleven ladies in shimmery satin, colorful lace and feather boas dancing and singing isn’t an everyday sight in Polson. But the women of the Black Satin Revue hope to make it a more common one. After a wildly successful opening weekend with their “sassy, classy burlesque” s...
ST. IGNATIUS — Many hands make light work, a fact J.R. and Nancy Troyer were extra thankful for last week. With the help of a couple dozen friends and neighbors in their Amish community, the destruction caused by a sudden fire on March 27 was transformed into a new beginning in less than a week. Aro...
