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Articles with the Tag: Dixon

Nonprofit donates to playgrounds, trails Nonprofit donates to playgrounds, trails

DIXON — Friends of Ronan Parks and Trails (FORPAT) stopped by the Dixon School District to drop off a check for $500 to help the school with the cost of maintaining their new playground, but the group didn’t stop there. As soon as school started, group members Carole Lankford and Eleanor Vizca...

Dixon students get new playground equipment

DIXON – Amelya Delay, 7, watched patiently as the new playground equipment at the Dixon school was being put together this summer, but the last few hours seemed like forever. “I had to wait a lot of time,” she said.  Students were finally allowed to play on the finished project o...

Man appeals life sentence Man appeals life sentence

HELENA – A man has appealed two life sentences handed down in 2013 for a disturbing home invasion and murder in Dixon by saying his plea of “guilty, but mentally ill” should not have been permitted.  Nathan Lee William Calvert, 35, was sentenced in 2013 to two life sentences, plus t...

Dixon

DIXON – Yes, the Dixon Center is still open and ready for business. We certainly appreciate its air-conditioned comfort during these hot summer days. I feel relieved that we don ‘t have humidity along with the heat. I recently returned from an 11-state trip in an elderly motor home back from M...

RAIL RIDERS RAIL RIDERS

The men and women waiting to begin their tour from Dixon June 9 were mostly from a generation whose letters to Santa likely included a toy train. “What you see here is a bunch of 18-year-olds in 60 and 70-year-old bodies,” quipped John Daniel of Washington as he waited to begin the Montana &ld...

Dixon School 4th quarter honor roll

Fourth Grade: Stephen Ioli and Jackson Plouffe-Jore. Fifth Grade: Angel Barnaby,Anthony Castro, Carla Hahn, George Ranney, Molly Kate Sullivan.  Eighth Grade: Yvonne Baty, Shakira Burrafato, Raegan Martin, Rio Rivera.   

Ronan man found

DIXON — A Ronan man was found injured but alert around 4:15 p.m. April 29 after spending three nights lost in the wilderness near Dixon.  Troy Akers, 20, was located in a creek bottom by search teams. Akers had a hurt ankle, and was flown to a hospital in Missoula for treatment.  &ldquo...

Authorities search Dixon area for missing Ronan man

DIXON — A half-dozen professionally trained search and rescue teams were searching near North Valley Creek Road on Wednesday morning for a man who went missing over the weekend. Troy Akers, 20, was traveling from Missoula with three others on Sunday night when the vehicle became stranded near D...

Dixon School’s third quarter honor rol

Fourth grade: Stephen Loli, Jackson Plouffe-Jore Fifth grade: Angel Barnaby, Anthony Castro, Siarra Mattson, George Ranney, Molly Kate Sullivan Seventh grade: Ezekiel Decker-Liberty Eighth grade: Yvonne Baty, Shakira Burrafato, Leslie Butler, Aasha Johnson, Raegan Martin  

‘Stampede’ raises money for Dixon playground ‘Stampede’ raises money for Dixon playground

DIXON – No one really worried about getting charged by wild bison during the Bison Stampede starting at the school in Dixon on Saturday. The actual bison stayed on the race day T-shirts designed by Yvonne Baty, 13. “It was the Bison Run so I thought stampeding bison would be nice,” she s...


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