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New tools, resources available on ParentingMontana.org News from DPHHS HELENA — The Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) Director Adam Meier announced recently that new online resources have been added to ParentingMontana.org for parents or those in a parenting role. The new resources include podcasts featuring parenting experts, guidance and information about teens and marijuana and other drug misuse, and more tools and resources covering vital topics such as stress and childhood trauma. The website empowers parents with tools, information, and examples of what to say in different parenting situations with their child. Kimberly Koch of DPHHS&rsquo...
Makayla Clary RONAN — Makayla Maree Clary was born on “Twos-Day,” Feb. 22, 2022, at the St. Luke Community Healthcare New Beginnings Birth Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces. Parents are Christopher and Aleisha Clary of Ronan. Paternal grandparents are Mark and Pamela Clary of Rona...
Marriages Tilemoana D. Faulkner and Dakota Rae Kakakaway Patrick Urvin May and Sarah Teresa Stanley Edward Ward Stasso and Cassandra J. McClure Hyrum Joseph Taylor and Amanda Marie Dupuis Michael James Dodge and Katie Jo Harper Divorces Ropeti Ropeti and Jodesa R. Ropeti (B...
News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks KALISPELL — Hunter education courses are open to registration in Kalispell, Polson, Eureka, and Plains. Registration is free and available online at: https://fwp.mt.gov/education/hunter-education. Additional courses will become available this spring...
DIXON — The Dixon Senior Center continues to serve our community and hopes everyone is staying happy and healthy. All are invited to come enjoy dinner. Meals will be served Monday and Thursday evenings at 5 p.m. Meals are $4 per serving and are deliverable to Dixon residents upon request. We are also a...
POLSON — The Polson Senior Center serves the senior citizens of the Polson area and beyond. Our organization is committed to serving citizens in their ‘golden’ years. It sure sounds better than ‘graying’ or ‘sagging’ years. So here it is again, where the Iri...
News by Valley Journal Staff LAKE COUNTY — More than two dozen prisoners have filed lawsuits against various officials in the City of Polson and Lake County and the entities themselves in the past six months in regard to conditions at the Lake County Jail. A judge in federal court in Miss...
LAKE COUNTY — I’ve been in sleuth-mode lately. With the Flathead Reservation Water Management Board fully formed and a deadline of March 16 looming to register “existing uses” of water with the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC), I’ve been navigating t...
RONAN — The Ronan Revitalization Committee announced during a Feb. 22 meeting that the city of Ronan was recently able to purchase property behind the Second Chance Saloon. “We’ve been trying to buy that property for years,” Public Works Director Dan Miller commented. ...
RONAN — The Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes Division of Engineering and Water Resources held an event last week to answer questions about ongoing projects tied to the CSKT Water Compact. The four-hour event was meant to be informal, allowing attendees to come as their schedule allowed to ask abo...

