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Briefs for June 18, 2024

Local churches host community dinners POLSON —  Polson Churches are hosting free community friendship dinners on Friday nights starting at 5 p.m. Different churches take turns hosting, with each church in charge of a different week of each month. While there are different flavors of churches and meals, each one is free and open to the public. If you are interested in helping out, talk to the host at any of the participating sites to see how you can get involved. See the below for where to go for a free meal each Friday of the month. First Friday: Mission Church, 36673 Fair Meadow Lane; second Friday: Presbyterian Church of Polson, 301 4th Ave. E.; third Friday: Immaculate...


St. Ignatius Seniors for June 18m 2025

ST. IGNATIUS - The National Institute on Aging reports the elderly are particularly vulnerable to high heat temperatures, which can put people at risk for fatigue, edema, heat rash, heat exhaustion and heat stroke.To lower your risk of heat related illness, drink fluids, avoid alcohol and caffeine.  If ...


Polson seniors for June 18, 2025

POLSON - On June 19, 1865, (nearly 100 days after the Civil War ended), the Army of the United States freed all the nearly 250,000 slaves in Texas, the last state to abolish involuntary servitude. An abbreviation of this memorable event became “Juneteenth.” Soldiers died to make men free, and to ...


Frank Parker

POLSON – Frank Glen Parker returned to the loving embrace of his Heavenly Father on Monday, June 9, 2025. Surrounded by family, he passed peacefully in his daughter’s home in Polson. Frank, called Glen by his family, was the third and final child born to Frank Guy Parker and Mabel Estella Ston...


Art in action: Chainsaw Carving Rendezvous returns to Ronan

RONAN – From June 5-8, the town of Ronan once again filled with the thunder of chainsaws, the sweet scent of fresh-cut pine, and the wonder of art in action during the annual Chainsaw Carving Rendezvous. Each day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., artists from across the Wes...


Celebrate Summer Solstice at Brewfest

News from Dana Grant   RONAN —  It’s time to celebrate the official arrival of summer at the 2025 Summer Solstice Festival and Brewfest on June 21 at the Ronan Fairgrounds. For the third year in a row, the Ronan Chamber of Commerce is hosting this family-friendly event with a theme ...


Montana snowpack below normal

News from USDA BOZEMAN — Summer in Montana is just around the corner. Springtime conditions felt almost summerlike with warmer than normal May temperatures. The seasonal transition spurred rapid snowmelt across the state during May. Snowpack across Montana is around 50%-70% of median, well below n...


WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program going digital

News from DPHHS MONTANA ­— Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) officials announced recently the Montana Farm Direct Program is transitioning to an electronic platform for the 2025 farmers’ market season. Moving to an electronic farmers’ market removes the arch...


Providence St. Patrick Hospital announces closure of the Family Maternity Center

News from Providence Montana  MISSOULA – Providence St. Patrick Hospital has announced the closure of the Family Maternity Center, effective Oct. 10, 2025.    After careful consideration of ongoing external challenges, including flat and declining birth volumes, and workforce sho...


Streamflow runoff forecasts for the Flathead Basin decrease significantly

News from Energy Keepers Inc. POLSON - Unseasonably warm and dry conditions have significantly decreased water supply in the Flathead River Basin and spring runoff is quickly receding bringing river flows to extremely low levels. With the dry hydrologic forecasts for the remainder of 2025 will be the th...


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