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News from the Lake County Election Office LAKE COUNTY — Notice is hereby given that a City Resort Tax Election will be held on Feb. 2, 2021. Electors will consider the following: should the City of Polson impose a resort tax in the City of Polson of three percent on the retail value of all goods and services sold by lodging or camping facilities, restaurants, fast food stores and other food service establishments; all public establishments serving alcoholic beverages by the drink; destination recreational facilities and luxuries sold by other establishments? The tax will take effect July 1, 2021, and be effective 12 months a year for 20 years and must be used as...
POLSON — In response to the surging spike of COVID-19 cases, Special Olympics Montana has decided to move its annual Polar Plunge fund-raising activities to an all-virtual online event for the 2021 season. “The virtual polar plunge offers plunging participants the opportunity to show the ...
News from the office of Governor-elect Greg Gianforte BOZEMAN — Governor-elect Greg Gianforte announced his appointment of Mike Foster to lead the Department of Agriculture. “Montana farmers and ranchers drive our state’s number one industry, and deserve a leader who will work...
News from DPHHS HELENA — Officials with the Department of Public Health and Human Services announced the expansion of ParentingMontana.org, a website created specifically for parents and those in a parenting role. The expansion includes new resources that provide practical tools to support pare...
HELENA — Incoming Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signaled he won’t continue a statewide mask mandate in place since July, though he said he plans to wear a mask himself and get vaccinated against COVID-19. If Gianforte, a Republican, reverses outgoing Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock’s mask or...
UM News Service FLATHEAD LAKE — Over the last few decades, water scientists have noticed a rapid and consistent warming of surface temperatures. Changes beneath the water surface, however, have been subtler, but could still have significant consequences for lake ecosystems. In a study recently ...
News from the office of Governor Steve Bullock MONTANA – Governor Steve Bullock announced Montana’s unemployment rate continued to decline to 4.9 percent in November, down from 5.0 percent in October. Montana’s rate remains lower than the national rate of 6.7% for November. “M...
Teri Lynn Miller, a St. Ignatius paramedic, was one of the first people in the Mission Valley to receive a coronavirus vaccine. She joined more than 3,000 Montana health care workers who received the injection last week at 10 Montana hospitals. “I kind of scooted out of the normal lane to get ...
Lake County Public Health and CSKT Tribal Health reported that the COVID-19 numbers for the county were at 124 actives cases, as of Monday, Dec. 21. Sixteen people have died in the county from the virus, and 1,395 have recovered. There have been 96 hospitalizations with 11 people currently in the hospital du...
PABLO — Charred wood and crumpled metal are all that remain of two uninhabited mobile homes destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. At about 1:45 a.m., the Ronan Fire Department received a call concerning a report that multiple structures were on fire at the corner of Division Street and Old U.S. Hi...
