Articles with the Tag: Elections
This year marks one of the largest pools of candidates for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council as 42 people have announced their candidacy. The primary election will take place Saturday, Nov. 2 from 8 a.m to 8 p.m. Polling places are the Arlee Indian Senior Center, the Elmo Community Cente...
MISSION — There are two at-large seats on the St. Ignatius Town Council up for grabs in the November 5 election. Only candidate Roger Lemon filed by the deadline to be on the regular ballot. Three candidates filed as write-in candidates. Lemon, 68, is a manager for Johnson Transportat...
The Flathead Joint Board of Control passed Resolution 2013-5, which requested that any irrigation district whose commissioners desire to withdraw from the FJBC first conduct a referendum of the fee land irrigators they represent. Irrigators within the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project may vote on t...
MISSION — The St. Ignatius Town Council has two candidates running for mayor. Incumbent Charles Gariepy, 54, has worked for Lake County Road and Bridge Department for 25 years. He and his wife Karolynn have three children. Gariepy has lived in the area his entire life and graduated from St. Ig...
POLSON — With filing for municipal positions closing on June 27, three people threw their hat in the ring for Polson mayor — Heather Knutson, Michael Brandt and Bob Fulton. Incumbent Todd Erickson is running to keep his seat as Ward 1 Polson City Commissioner for a four-year term while Jill So...
MISSION VALLEY — According to the New York Times, millennials, the generation of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29, made up nearly 19 percent of the popular vote in this year’s election. In addition, those between the ages of 18 to 24 voted 60 percent for Barack Obama and 36 percen...
Editor, I wanted to take a moment to be sure and thank those who supported me in the election for District Court judge. It was a privilege to be a candidate. While I wish the outcome would have been different, I take it all as a positive experience and very much appreciated the opportunity of introducing ...
Editor, Now that the election has been decided and we have heard all the excuses from certain pundits as to why Romney did not win, something comes to my mind in all this. And this particular trend of concern was not picked up by the media, not realized, and certainly not expected. This unrealize...
Editor, We would personally like to thank Nancy Lindsey for running for the Montana State Senate against a well-known and popular candidate. The odds were against Nancy from the outset, but she still agreed to put herself out there and present herself to District 6 as a viable alternative to the Rep...
PABLO —At the end of a three-day, whirlwind tour of Indian reservations in Montana, Democratic candidates and their supporters rallied at the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center on Nov. 1 for an Indian taco dinner. Salish Kootenai College student volunteers and the Montana Democratic Party...
