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FLATHEAD RESERVATION — The Young Voices of the Mission Mountains, a creative writing residency program for Salish and Kootenai students, has just received $30,000 in funding through a Grant for Arts Project award. Orchestrated by the Missoula Writing Collaborative, the grant will fund the payroll and travel for 12-week writing residencies in seven schools on the Flathead Indian Reservation: Arlee, Charlo, Dixon, K. William Harvey, Pablo, Ronan, and St. Ignatius. Started in 2019, the residency allows authors from the Collaborative to visit primarily fourth and fifth grade classrooms once per week to teach poetry and art with a strong Native American emphasis. Held online du...
News from MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Montana State University has announced its undergraduate honor rolls for fall semester 2021. There are two MSU honor roll lists: the President’s List and the Dean’s List. To be eligible for the lists, students must be enrolled in at least 12 coll...
News from DNRC MONTANA — The American Rescue Plan Act Advisory Commission will meet on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, at 1 p.m. in the Capitol Building, room 303, to review Minimum Allocation Grants and receive updates on: Treasury Coronavirus SLFRF; Overview of Final Rule; Regional Water Authorities; D...
RONAN — The Flathead Reservation Water Management Board held its first meeting Thursday with just four members: the Tribal Council’s two picks, Clayton Matt and Teresa Wall-McDonald, and Governor Greg Gianforte’s two selections, Roger Noble and Kenneth Pitt. Matt, who chaired the ...
News from the Office of the Governor HELENA — Together with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC), Governor Greg Gianforte announced the State of Montana will increase firefighter pay to support, recruit, and retain the highly-qualified, highly-trained personnel who p...
News from the Office of the Governor HELENA — Governor Greg Gianforte announced on Jan. 13 the following appointments: Private Land and Public Wildlife Board: - Eric Albus, Hinsdale: A fourth-generation rancher and farmer, Albus and his brothers farm wheat, pea, lentils, and barley, and ra...
News from the CSKT HELENA — The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation in partnership with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, invite the public in the Flathead Reservation area, particularly water users, to the first meeting of the Flathead R...
ST. IGNATIUS — A fatal vehicle vs. pedestrian crash was called in on Jan. 14. According to a press release from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, at 6:27 p.m. Lake County 911 took a report of an apparently intoxicated pedestrian walking on the highway near the Mission Creek bridge in St. Ignat...
News from the Mission Valley Christian Academy POLSON — Mission Valley Christian Academy just opened a new pre-school and is now starting “Phase 1” of building the community center thanks to a recent donation from Greg and Susan Gianforte and support from numerous individual dono...
News from the MDC HELENA — Montana Housing announced on Jan. 5 that more than $30 million in rent and utility assistance has been paid to support Montanans who have experienced financial hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic and were at risk of housing instability. The federally funded assistance...
