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RONAN — The Flathead Water Compact board finalized their bylaws during their April 13 meeting and passed their very first resolutions as a board. The first resolution passed by the board was to establish the spending authority limits for the water engineer. Originally in a draft of the bylaws but changed to a resolution for the sake of simplicity, Resolution 2023-01 establishes the fiscal and procurement policy for the water engineer. With only a few revisions to the proposed draft, the resolution will allow the water engineer limited spending authority, as well as establish a segregation of duties to prevent misuse or loss of funds and establish transparency and financial ac...
News from DPHHS U.S. — The Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) announced April 12 that with the federal Public Health Emergency ending on May 11, the agency plans to discontinue the weekly updates to the COVID-19 case tracking and vaccine dashboards. The last update to the da...
News from the Polson School District POLSON — By now, your ballot(s) for the Polson School District Bond election should be in route to your mailbox if they haven’t already arrived. Thank you for your consideration of the various issues our aging school infrastructure faces, which you ...
News from the Arlee CDC ARLEE — The Arlee Community Development Corporation is looking for volunteers to help prepare a garden site for a Victory Garden that will provide fresh produce for residents of Arlee and the Jocko Valley. “We’re excited to be bringing this program to Arlee,&rdq...
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9th Grade 4.0 – Abigail Gillin, Arianna Robine 3.5 - 3.99 – Jayson Brown, Sierra Girsch, Brayden Hall, Lex LaFrombois, Brooklyn McClure, Leslia Stops, Cora Matt 3.0 - 3.49 – Wyatt Branson, Destiny Courville, Jake Helser, Jacob Piedalue, Krugger Pierce, Alecia Steele, Kitra Thomas...
News from the Office of the Governor HELENA — Together with Attorney General Austin Knudsen and Montana Department of Justice officials, Governor Greg Gianforte recently urged Montana legislators to invest in law enforcement to build safer, stronger communities. “Government’s chief ...
News from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office LAKE COUNTY — The identity of the person struck and killed by a vehicle on Hwy 93 near White Coyote Road in the early morning of March 31 is Mika Westwolf, 22, of Missoula. In consultation with the State Medical Examiner’s Office, the Lake Cou...
HELENA — House Bill 479, sponsored by Ronan representative Joe Read, is on its way to the State Senate after passing a House vote on April 3. HB479 proposes that the State of Montana appropriate $2.5 million to the Department of Justice each year, beginning July 1, to reimburse Lake County for...
HELENA — The Legislature this week sounded the likely death knell for almost all of the remaining proposals to amend the Montana Constitution this session. That isn’t to say that the House and Senate didn’t endorse those eight proposals, which ranged from an amendment to end state Suprem...
