Articles Written By: Melea Burke
Outside, the world is frozen. The wooden buildings are blanketed in white, and icicles hang from stiff prayer flags. It’s winter, and in the outside world, life is suspended. But inside, it’s just beginning. At the Garden of 1,000 Buddhas outside Arlee, each day two or three new buddha stat...
POLSON — Several newly elected Lake County officials took their oaths of office Thursday in an afternoon ceremony at the Lake County Courthouse, and they say they’re eager to jump in to their new duties. As the winner of the county’s highest-profile race this election cycle, Jay Doyle wa...
POLSON — A Ronan man who allegedly stabbed an acquaintance in early October pled not guilty last week to two unrelated felony charges. Jon Lozeau, 23, was charged with assault on a police officer and threats and improper influence, both felonies, and assault with bodily fluid, disorderly conduct and...
PABLO — A new book by local historian and author Bob Bigart argues that the Salish Indians deserve far more credit for diplomacy and survival strategies that they normally get. In “Getting Good Crops: Economic And Diplomatic Survival Strategies Of The Montana Bitterroot Salish Indians, 1870&nd...
ST. IGNATIUS — The last business day of 2010 didn’t start differently from any other day for the staff of Mission Valley Health Clinic. But it was bittersweet for physician assistant Randy Trudeau and his office staff as they prepared to close the clinic’s doors for the last time on Thursda...
It’s not too early to start planning for spring and with it, the return of songbirds to Western Montana, as members of the Ninepipe Explorers 4-H Club learned last Wednesday. Twelve kids in the group visited the headquarters of Mountain Bluebird Trails, Inc., in Ronan to help build bluebird nest boxes ...
PABLO — Pablo Elementary students honored both the Christmas season and the memory of a beloved teacher with a holiday program Dec. 22. With a packed house of parents, grandparents and siblings in the school gym, choir teacher Kathy Briney led five choirs of kindergarten through fourth-graders...
ST. IGNATIUS — A week before Christmas, 23 St. Ignatius Middle School students went on a Walmart shopping spree. But they were buying gifts for people they’d never met, and according to their teachers, it isn’t too often you see kids so excited about helping others. The students are part...
RONAN — Susep Zimmerer seems like a normal 11-year-old. He’s polite and shakes hands when you meet him. He loves his mother, riding his bike and video games. His eyes are playful under an unruly shock of dark hair, but today, there’s a tinge of sadness underneath. Dragging a suitcase muc...
PABLO — A teenage visitor to the Mission Valley Animal Shelter last Thursday reminded workers of the true meaning of Christmas. “I’m trying not to cry,” said operations manager Brenda Jones, but she soon gave in to the tears as she explained what had happened. Mission High...
