Articles Written By: Melea Burke
ST. IGNATIUS — Last Thursday seemed like any other winter morning as Mission General Store owner Delbert Bontrager arrived at work just after 7 a.m. Temperatures were frigid, and blowing snow had piled drifts by the building, so Bontrager entered by a different door than usual. When he reached his offi...
CHARLO — In a brain-stretching day in Charlo, Polson students defeated Charlo, St. Ignatius and Ronan Academic Bowl teams last Wednesday, holding on to their early lead after the second meet of a series of four contests. Polson finished with 490 points; Charlo had 388; St. Ignatius was a close third...
RONAN — The Super Bowl doesn’t usually conjure up images of people helping others, but the Ronan Seventh Day Adventist Church has found a way to make Super Bowl season about giving: the “Souper Bowl.” For the second year, the church held a canned soup drive during January for the R...
RONAN — After a stellar performance Feb. 4 at the Montana FIRST Tech Challenge Championship Tournament, the Ronan School District 30 robotics team will be heading to a national robotics tournament in just two months, robotics advisor Jesse Gray said. He couldn’t be prouder of the nine students...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal court last week granted a joint motion filed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes dismissing their appeals of a Sept. 28 court decision that rescinded an annual funding agreement for the National Bison Range in Moiese. The...
POLSON — If good fences made good neighbors, life on one lakeside lane off Highway 35 would be much more peaceful than history reveals. Over the past five years, a drama pitting next-door neighbors against each other has tainted life for four residents of Station Creek Way. The drama has involved civil...
ARLEE — Progress never comes easily, as several residents along Arlee’s Jocko Road found last week. When Merrill and Sunni Bradshaw got home Thursday evening, their back yard “looked like a bomb went off,” Merrill said. After some investigating, the Bradshaws learned that they were...
ST. IGNATIUS — St. Ignatius is once again hiring police officers after Tony Buff and Scott Sciaretta resigned last week. Buff’s resignation was effective immediately, and Sciaretta’s last day of employment is Feb. 11, Mayor Charley Gariepy noted at the Feb. 1 city council meeting. In Buf...
RONAN — One lucky duck lives at the corner of First and Buchanan Street SW in Ronan. Ever since moving in with Ed and Virginia Cornelius last summer, Mr. Quackers, as he’s affectionately dubbed, has been top duck in the household. “You are one spoiled duck,” Virginia tells him as s...
ARLEE — Horses have been a part of Leon Wieder’s life ever since he could hang on to a saddle, so it’s only natural that the biggest adventure yet of his 19 years will be on horseback. On May 17, the 2009 Arlee High School graduate will strike out on a roughly 690-mile journey from Wibau...
