Articles with the Tag: COVID-19

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Health’s new mobile medical van was parked across from Super 1 in Polson Friday, offering free walk-in COVID-19 vaccinations. A pair of 18-year-olds stopped by to get their first installment of the Pfizer vaccine as a pre-college precaution, and a 14-year-old wai...
Prepare to boo the villain and cheer the hero when the Port Polson Players, in association with Mission Valley Friends of the Arts, reopen Polson’s Theatre on the Lake June 11 with “Dirty Work at the Crossroads.” The melodramatic comedy ushers in the Players’ 46th season and welcomes ...

News from MTVAHCS MISSOULA — U.S. Army and Marine Veteran Kent Stewart drove from Polson to Missoula’s David J. Thatcher VA Clinic to receive his first dose of the Moderna vaccine and in doing so, became the 10,000th Montana Veteran to receive a COVID-19 vaccine from Montana VA Health ...

The library at Linderman Elementary in Polson is evenly split between rows of desks and shelves lined with books. Students must sanitize their hands to check out books, and desks in the large room are spaced so that kids keep a safe distance from each other. Three third graders, each wearing a mask,...
Sign up for soil health, income protection program News from USDA BOZEMAN — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that agricultural producers in the Prairie Pothole states can now sign up for the Soil Health and Income Protection Program, which provides a short-term option to plant cove...
News from CSKT Spring has finally arrived in Western Montana, which means baby red buffalo calves will start to appear at the Bison Range, formerly known as the National Bison Range. On Dec. 27, 2020, Congress passed and the President signed, the Bison Range Restoration legislation. Thro...
News from the Department of Commerce MONTANA — Montana will regain its second congressional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to the 2020 Census state population count released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The count reveals that Montana’s population grew from ...
Get vaccinated Montana News from Senator Tester and Senator Daines MONTANA — While it’s true that Senator Steve Daines and Senator Tester don’t always see eye-to-eye on everything, there’s one thing they definitely agree on right now – that every Montanan should get th...

After considerable discussion last Tuesday among members of the Lake County Board of Public Health and its advisory group, a resolution was approved that offers guidance to organizers of the Mission Valley’s myriad summer events. Among the local events mentioned were the summer car show and Ar...
News from the Office of Senator Tester U.S. SENATE U.S. — Senator Jon Tester announced that he has secured $32,191,069 in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for the Montana Department of Health and Human Services to support the Montana state laboratory’s capacity for the prev...