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LAKE COUNTY — A presentation by the emergency response teams in the Flathead Basin revealed a common need: volunteers. Presenters of the panel included Nic Winslow of BNSF, Brian Heino of Flathead County, Mark Clary of Lake County, and Dale Nelson of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. All of them expressed how emergency response in the Flathead Basin comes down to collaboration. The emergency teams throughout the basin respond to a variety of events, particularly in the last few years. Water quality is a huge issue; each time a vehicle sinks into Flathead Lake, emergency response acts to remove the vehicle and debris and mitigate any oil spills with equipme...
News from the Montana Department of Revenue HELENA — The Montana Department of Revenue has an important message to income tax filers: Keep your mailing address current with the department. This is especially true for anyone filing a Montana income tax return for the first time. That’s bec...
News from the Commissioner of Securities and Insurance HELENA — Commissioner of Securities and Insurance Troy Downing approved over $340,000 in restitution payments to victims of Metals.com. The victims, ranging in age from 60 to 77, received payments of $14,676 to $50,000. “Victims of se...
News from Missoula Public Library MONTANA — The 2021 Montana Book Award winner is Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana by Abe Streep, published by Celadon Books. This annual award recognizes literary and/or artistic excellence in a book writte...
News from the Daughters of the American Revolution ST. IGNATIUS — The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Good Citizens program and scholarship contest is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. The program is open to all senior class students enrolled in accredi...
LAKE COUNTY — I’ve been in sleuth-mode lately. With the Flathead Reservation Water Management Board fully formed and a deadline of March 16 looming to register “existing uses” of water with the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC), I’ve been navigating t...
RONAN — The Ronan Revitalization Committee announced during a Feb. 22 meeting that the city of Ronan was recently able to purchase property behind the Second Chance Saloon. “We’ve been trying to buy that property for years,” Public Works Director Dan Miller commented. ...
RONAN — The Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes Division of Engineering and Water Resources held an event last week to answer questions about ongoing projects tied to the CSKT Water Compact. The four-hour event was meant to be informal, allowing attendees to come as their schedule allowed to ask abo...
News from Montana PBS MONTANA — ‘Celebrate America’ is a national program designed to give our nation’s youth a life enhancing opportunity by showcasing their choirs on Public Television” said ‘Celebrate America’ founder, Tim Janis. The production and filming of...
News from USDA BOZEMAN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is delivering on its promise to expand markets by investing $1 billion in partnerships to support America’s climate-smart farmers, ranchers and forest landowners. The new Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities opportunity will f...
