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News from the offices of Senator Tester and Senator Daines U.S. SENATE — As a part of his continued efforts to improve mail delivery in Montana, U.S. Senator Jon Tester recently urged Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to halt the United States Postal Service’s Mail Processing Facility Review that could result in the relocation of Missoula’s Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) to Spokane, Washington. “The Missoula P&DC is a critical part of postal operations in Montana,” wrote Tester in a letter to Postmaster General DeJoy. “The center employs over a hundred Montanans and has served the community for decades. If processing were to ...
News from the office of Senator Tester BIG SANDY — U.S. Senator Jon Tester recently secured $6,000,000 to fund a new terminal for Missoula County Airport. This funding comes from Tester’s bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and is awarded through the Federal Avia...
POLSON — Leap Day is Feb. 29. The extra day added every four years at the end of February allows the human made calendar to “catch up” to the actual orbit time of the earth around the sun (365.25 days). You cannot fool Nature, it runs on astronomical time, not Mountain Standard Time. Person...
ST. IGNATIUS — A special “Thank You” goes to all that came and played bingo on Saturday, Feb. 10. The blackout prize was a $100 this time. We will have our next bingo event on March 9 at 2 p.m. We are still looking for a site manager. Some of the job’s respon...
RONAN — The Mission Valley Senior Center is across from St. Luke’s Hospital. We are open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for lunch and other activities. Our menu: — Wednesday, Feb. 28: Salisbury steak, salad, dessert — Friday, March 1: tuna casserole, salad, desse...
MISSOULA — Neal Lewing, lifelong Montana singer/songwriter, actor, playwright, poet, author and educator, will return to UM to celebrate 50 years since matriculating as a professional entertainer and help raise awareness of the need for music and musicians. Proceeds benefit the UM Music Scholarship pro...
MISSOULA — Neal Lewing, lifelong Montana singer/songwriter, actor, playwright, poet, author and educator, will return to UM to celebrate 50 years since matriculating as a professional entertainer and help raise awareness of the need for music and musicians. Proceeds benefit the UM Music Scholarship pro...
ST. IGNATIUS — After 10 rounds of competition between 32 students, Apollonia Hall, a fifth grader from Charlo Schools, was named the 2024 Lake County Spelling Bee champion. Apollonia spelled cupidity and methane correctly to take top honors and qualify for the state spelling bee in Bozeman on March 10....
Officials in Lake County say the clock is ticking for the state to assume felony law enforcement duties on the Flathead Indian Reservation, but so far they’ve heard nothing from Gov. Greg Gianforte. In November, the Lake County Commission sent a letter to Gianforte informing him that the local...
News from the Montana Department of Transportation RONAN — The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) would like to announce and invite the public to comment on a proposal to replace the existing bridge that crosses Crow Creek on Moiese Valley Road, approximately 10 miles southwest of Ronan. ...
