Articles with the Tag: Lake County
News from the Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana NINEPIPE – Traditional bowmaker Jim Rempp will be the featured artist at Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana on Saturday, Aug. 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rempp is a well-respected craftsman who uses Native American methodology to create self-bows (bows mad...
RONAN — A Ronan man was sentenced to 10 years in the Montana State Prison on July 29 for killing a toddler last year. Galen Hawk, 26, was also ordered to serve 13 months in the Montana Department of Corrections after the first punishment was complete, with an additional three-year sus...
LAKESIDE – Two men who allegedly stole a $100,000 boat from a Lakeside Marina on June 19 were arrested after a high speed, all-terrain chase on July 14 near Elmo. The two men were Ty Christian Butler, 20, Dixon, and Brandon Jeppesen, 30, Polson. A Montana Highway Patrol Trooper noticed the ...
RONAN — A Bigfork teen sobbed and thanked the judge for giving him a second chance after he was sentenced for hitting a Polson school bus filled with 10 children and one driver in May. On July 22, Daniel Fellows, 19, after previously pleading guilty to two counts of felony criminal endangerment...
LAKE COUNTY — Local producers and ranchers may see some aid for drought conditions in Lake County. Lake County is among seven Montana counties that have been authorized for emergency haying and grazing use of Conservation Reserve Program acres due to drought. Producers who wish to hay or graze their...
RONAN – Anyone looking for some old-timey fun taken straight from the pages of Charlotte’s Web will be in hog heaven this week, as kiddos bring out their animals, vegetables, and everything else ag-related when the Lake County Fair kicks off in Ronan this weekend. The bulk of the most po...
POLSON – A Lake County man could face life in prison or the death penalty after Lake County Judge Deborah Kim Christopher rejected a plea deal. Adrian McElderry, 32, is accused of killing his wife, RaeLynn Charlo, 29, on Nov. 18, 2014. in their Charlo residence. Christopher reviewed a pre-s...
Orange blossom wheat midges have nothing to do with weddings and everything to do with destroying a spring wheat crop. The little insects are about half the size of a mosquito and neon orange. Midges lay their eggs in the wheat flower. When the larvae hatch in about a week, they eat the wheat kernels. &nb...
News from Lake County Health Department LAKE COUNTY — The Affordable Care Act, beginning in 2010, initiated changes to private health insurance plans and all Medicaid programs requiring that preventative medical services be covered. Included in this preventative medicine approach is tobacco cessatio...
Polson Rural Fire District Chief John Fairchild thanked the Lake County Commissioners, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council, the City of Polson and all those who had a part in putting a ban on fireworks. “Your combined efforts in placing the ban into effect had a large impact o...
