Schools

Arlee High School celebrated homecoming last week with a win on the gridiron. The Warriors prevailed over Charlo’s Vikings, 62-20. Homecoming king and queen candidates were Darius Tewawina and Toni Hadley, nominated by the freshman class; Kaiden Ostby and Alonah Warrior, sophomore class nominees; Bridger Smith and Madison Valdez, junior class nominees; Gavyn Swaney and Leah Mesteth, nominated by the senior class. Bridger Smith and Leah Mesteth were crowned 2024 Arlee homecoming king and queen.

News from the Montana Ambassadors On Friday, Oct. 4, the Montana Ambassadors celebrated Frank Tyro, PhD, a pioneering television producer and professor, as the 2024 recipient of the Mike Malone Educator of the Year Award. This award is presented annually to a Montana educator who has demonstrated out...

KALISPELL — The Wachholz College Center’s Wanda Hollensteiner Art Gallery on the campus of Flathead Valley Community College announces their new fall exhibition of works by former FVCC painting instructor and surrealist painter, Marvin Messing (1922-2015). The show will featur...
By Anne Cantrell, MSU News Service BOZEMAN — When J. Mitchell Vaterlaus worked as a marriage and family therapist, he noticed that many of his clients lacked basic relational skills, including skills in communication, setting boundaries, and combining and establishing familial traditions. &ldqu...
News from the Office of Public Instruction HELENA - On Aug. 20, 2024, Superintendent Arntzen announced that the Office of Public Instruction (OPI) allocated $1.5 million in federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds to Montana teachers for math and reading projects in a partn...

News from Skip Anderson MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Artificial intelligence seems to be everywhere these days, from social media apps to the laboratories of Montana State University. Now, thanks in part to a doctoral student in MSU’s Gianforte School of Computing, it’s in the state&rsqu...

News from FVCC KALISPELL — Kalispell businessman Paul Wachholz has donated $2.1 million to Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC) to continue his support of the Paul D. Wachholz College Center. Wachholz made a $4 million donation as part of the initial fundraising efforts for the project back in...
From MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Residents across the state are invited to participate in Montana Crunch Time, a celebration of National Farm to School Month, local producers and nutritious foods. Montana Crunch Time is a statewide event encouraging participants to “crunch” &md...

By Skylar Rispens, UM News Service MISSOULA — The University of Montana sounded an alarm for “record-setting low streamflow conditions” on the Blackfoot River this summer at a press conference last week in collaboration with the Blackfoot Challenge, a local volunteer conservation group...
News from the Office of Public Instructio n HELENA — Superintendent Arntzen has released the list of Montana school districts that will participate in the free and reduced-price school meals or free milk programs during the 2024-2025 school year. Children may be eligible for free or reduced-price s...