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Grant funding supports local programs Grant funding supports local programs

News from Lake County Community Development Corporation RONAN — Lake County Community Development Corporation  announced Nov. 19 that they received USDA funding that will benefit Mission Mountain Food Enterprise, as well as rural business and cooperative development programs. Of the $962,...

Kettle Drive to benefit Helping Hands Fund

LAKE COUNTY — This Christmas season, when you shop at Super 1 Foods, Walmart, Ronan Harvest Foods, and Pablo Family Foods, you will see volunteers from the Polson Ministerial Association and various community organizations ringing the bell for the annual Salvation Army Kettle Drive.  Over the p...

Veterans honored throughout Lake County Veterans honored throughout Lake County

With a breakfast served by the Ladies Auxiliary at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Ronan, veterans standing on the Armed Forces Memorial Bridge in Polson, a program at Laverne Parish’s grave in Ronan, a celebration at Glacier View Christian School and free lunch at the Cove, veterans around the Mission...

Fatal shooting in Charlo under investigation

News from the Lake County Sheriff's Office UPDATE Nov. 20 Adrian M. McElderry, 32, was arrested and charged with deliberate homicide in the shooting death of Raelynn M. Charlo. McElderry is currently being held in the Lake County Detention Facility without bond pending the arraignment hearing. CHA...

Lake County citizens vote Daines, Zinke Lake County citizens vote Daines, Zinke

POLSON — Unofficial Lake County election results were released early on Nov. 5 with a 53 percent voter turnout rate.  Results will be official after they are canvassed Nov. 17. In the race between House District 15 candidates Joe Read and George G. Kipp III, Kipp passed Read with 1,018 votes...

Election results announced

Unofficial Lake County results, does not include any provisional voters   United States Senate Steve Daines, Republican 4,945 Roger Roots, Libertarian  179 Amanda Curtis, Democrat  3,432 Write-in  12   United States Representative John Lewis, Democrat  ...

Lake County jail, courthouse need more room

POLSON — Lake County Detention Center, the county’s jail, is so full that people who need to serve jail time have to call in daily to see if there’s room. According to Lake County Undersheriff Dan Yonkin, the jail was built by Lake County and is overseen by the county commissioners. &...

Times change for Lake County jail

POLSON — The Lake County Detention Center has gone through many phases.  In 1976, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office moved the jail from the north end of the courthouse basement to the south end, creating much needed space. Current offices for the sheriff, undersheriff and captain used to b...

Local judicial assistant awarded employee of year Local judicial assistant awarded employee of year

      LAKE COUNTY — Lake County judicial assistant LeeAnn Erickson was recently awarded Judicial Branch Employee of the Year for the State of Montana, in part for her professionalism, customer service and leadership when 20th Judicial District Judge C.B. McNeil and his assistant...

CASA volunteers help kids who need temporary homes

The flashing neon lights of law enforcement cars alert the neighborhood that’s something’s going on down the street. Deputies arrest parents for drugs, and there are children in the home. Usually the kids are taken from the home and placed in foster care. Although the court appoints a lawyer for ...


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