Articles with the Tag: Arlee
Steven Small Salmon thinks back to his earliest memories of the Arlee Celebration as he gets ready for the Snake Dance dressed in an eagle headdress, buckskin shirt, and horsewhip. He remembers the celebration, now in its 115th year, being much smaller 50 years ago. “Fifty years ago it was ...
ARLEE — Arlee was a busy town on the Fourth of July, beginning with the Firemen’s Pancake Breakfast, the parade at noon, the first grand entry at the 115th Annual Arlee Celebration at 2 p.m., the 3-on-3 basketball tournament and the 31st Annual Arlee Fourth of July open rodeo. The rodeo ...
NORTH VALLEY CREEK — Encampment at Agnes Vanderburg’s camp is part of summer at Salish Kootenai College, and this year it was held from June 9 to 14. Although it always rains, this year they only had one day of rain and some showers — not enough to slow down the students, who showed up w...
News from the Jocko Irrigation District ARLEE — In a 2-1 vote, the three Jocko Irrigation District representatives voted to withdraw from the Flathead Joint Board of Control on June 14. Kerry Doney and Roger Christopher voted yes, and Boone Cole voted against. The three representat...
POLSON — Nathan Adam Butler, the Arlee teen accused of stabbing his 51-year-old stepfather to death and injuring his mother and another man last November, will be tried as an adult. Butler is charged with deliberate homicide, attempted deliberate homicide, and assault with a weapon, all feloni...
MISSION VALLEY — Four students from the Mission Valley will soon travel to Cambodia for a one month as part of the U.S. State Department American Youth Leadership Program. The program is run through the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana. The center recently receive...
ARLEE — With the 115th annual Arlee Celebration just around the corner, Chairman of the Celebration Committee Salisha Old Bull said an entire year of planning is about to come to fruition. “We spend the whole year preparing for the celebration, and everyone on the committee is a voluntee...
ARLEE — The Arlee community held a powwow in honor of two Nkwusm Salish Language Institute graduates last weekend, celebrating their achievement with prayer, song, dance, food and drums. Graduates Mars Sandoval and Nicole Perry will attend Arlee High School in the fall, and while both said they were...
Old Glory was flying high throughout Lake County on Memorial Day. In Arlee, the Mission Valley Honor Guard visited three cemeteries in Arlee Monday morning, paying honor to warriors who gave their life for America. Parades traveled down Main Street in both Polson and Ronan. The VFW, American L...
ARLEE — Arlee Schools is participating in the Summer Meal Program, a USDA Child Nutrition Program that provides free meals to all children regardless of race, color, national, origin, sex, age or disability. Meals will be provided at the Arlee Schools lunchroom/gym Mondays through Thursdays fr...
