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News from CSKT FLATHEAD LAKE – With all the cancelations happing throughout the Mission Valley, rest assured at least one event will not be canceled. Grab your fishing poles and get your families onto Flathead Lake to participate in the 2020 Spring Mack Days event, which began on March 20 and runs until May 17. In order to conduct the contest in ways to minimize viral transmission, we will implement the following changes: -anglers will be received on the porch of the processing building, preferably one at a time; -tribal fisheries staff will count fish and will handle tickets for the angler; -award ceremony and fish fry is suspended pending furth...
News from Loaves and Fish POLSON – The Polson Loaves and Fish food pantry thank our incredible supporters and pass along this important information. The pantry is still open during our regular hours, 2-5:45 p.m. on Tuesdays and 10-1:45 p.m. on Fridays. However, we are now a drive-through ...

LAKE COUNTY – Though schools are closed for two weeks to reduce the spread of COVID-19, districts are making sure students are still fed. Since the closures, schools have given out hundreds of meals for students to eat at home to make up for meals they would have otherwise eaten in their school’s...
News from the Lake County Election Administrator Katie Harding LAKE COUNTY – With COVID-19, the Lake County Election Office is recommendingvoters sign up for an absentee ballot for the Federal Primary Election to be held on June 2. This request is due to social distancing, quarantines and limitati...
PABLO — SKC's Center for Prevention and Wellness has announced the May 21, 2020, Women 4 Wellness event has been canceled. This is in keeping with the government’s recommendations for social distancing.
News from CSKT Beginning immediately, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes implemented a government-wide partial shutdown. All department heads were directed to establish an essential services schedule through March 27. Department heads are firming up plans on what services will remain i...
News from Brian E. Lipscomb, SKQ CEO POLSON – As COVID-19 continues to make an impact in the United States, Energy Keepers Inc. is committed to continual around the clock operation of the SKQ Project regardless of other social distancing efforts that society is implementing to limit p...
News from Helping Hands In response to assisting others with their basic grocery or personal care supplies, we are developing a pick up and drop service for those in most emergent need. At this time, we are giving priority to our elders, next our families with school age children, babies,...
News from the Office of the Governor MONTANA – Governor Steve Bullock today, March 20, announced that small businesses across Montana impacted by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) are now eligible to apply for emergency loans through the Small Business Administration. “We are ...
News from the office of Montana Governor Steve Bullock MONTANA — Governor Steve Bullock today announced that uninsured Montanans, who receive a recommendation from a provider, will be eligible to receive coverage for COVID-19 testing and treatment. “This is a significant step in con...