Articles Written By: Melea Burke
POLSON — Tenants who are growing medical marijuana in a building in Polson’s South Hills neighborhood applied last week for a zoning conformance approval application after county officials notified them that they are in violation of county zoning ordinances. After the Lake County Planning Depa...
PABLO — A Sunday evening fire destroyed a mobile home in Pablo and had firefighters searching for a resident of the home for nearly three hours before the woman turned up at St. Luke Community Hospital in Ronan. Ronan Fire Chief Mark Clary said he and 18 volunteer firefighters arrived just after 7 p...
RONAN — Voices of 130 students from four high schools joined together in a performance for a packed house Dec. 14 at the annual Mission Valley Christmas Choral Festival Concert. Ronan High School hosted the event, and choirs from Charlo, St. Ignatius and Thompson Falls came to sing holiday favorites al...
ARLEE — Thanks to the work of a dedicated group of volunteers, Christmas came early this year for teachers at the Arlee School. Friends of Arlee School, Inc., gave $7,500 in art supplies, microscopes, musical instruments, software, calculators – and even dogfish for dissection — to kinderga...
RONAN — Americans have six months to a year to “get squared away” with a supply of food, fuel, weapons and money — gold or silver, not cash — Oath Keepers founder and director Stewart Rhodes told a crowd of 75 to 100 people at the Ronan Community Center Dec. 7. “T...
ARLEE — On a frosty December morning, Arlee business owners and community members got a cheery holiday treat: a visit from 20-odd Arlee Elementary carolers, bundled up and singing their hearts out. Directed by local choir fixture Anne Stewart, the students walked from the school to downtown and popp...
ST. IGNATIUS — Never has so much toilet paper been seen at the Mission School. And no, students weren’t vandalizing the halls. St. Ignatius middle-schoolers collected 2,528 rolls of toilet paper last week to donate to local food banks, Orange Acres in Arlee and homeless shelters in Missoula.&n...
ARLEE — Three years ago, Sally Cordier had a dream that’s evolved into an annual community event in Arlee. “I had a dream that some friends and I were playing rock band in a flatbed truck in a parade,” Cordier explained. It was late fall, and when Cordier told some friends about...
ARLEE — Errin Bigcrane never thought the President would see her artwork. In fact, when the fourth-grader entered a contest to design the cover of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ 2010 Christmas card, she told her mom, “I’m never gonna win.” Errin wasn’t sat...
For the first time in Lake County, free temporary housing is available to those in need through SAFE Harbor, a local nonprofit organization that primarily provides advocacy, counseling and legal support for victims of domestic violence. “SAFE Harbor’s umbrella is bigger now,” director of...
