Articles with the Tag: Lake County
POLSON – Local primaries handed out a mixed bag of results last week, as one long-standing incumbent was unseated, but others managed to hang onto their seats. The upset of the night came via the county attorney’s race, where public defender Steve Eschenbacher beat Mitch Young, who has h...
LAKE COUNTY – Service providers said last week that programs for Lake County seniors will be better able to serve a growing population of elders after voters approved a mil levy. Stagnant and decreasing funding at the federal and state levels have plagued area senior centers and service provid...
RONAN — Hydrological engineers conducted tests at an abandoned Ronan gas station last week to determine if further environmental remediation is needed to disperse hazardous chemicals remaining in the soil after a 1994 spill of gasoline from a perforated 16,000-gallon storage tank. The Montana Depart...
In a May 29 letter, Senator Verdell Jackson, SD 8, and 11 other Montana representatives and senators contacted Kimberly Bose, secretary of the Energy Regulatory Commission. In summary the letter said, “We seek FERC’s careful deliberation in the issuance of a Kerr Dam license to NorthWestern Co...
RONAN — The weight of several uncontested primaries drove many people to listen to more than a dozen candidates who turned out for a last minute political forum held by the Round Butte Grange 126 last Friday. Most of the candidates that participated were part of races where no one had filed in...
LAKE COUNTY – On June 3 county voters have a chance to tax themselves and help alleviate an eldercare crisis that officials say is growing more prominent as the population of senior citizens continues to boom at a pace unmatched by funding support from the federal and state government. A senior mil ...
HELENA — Representatives for the State of Montana filed multiple legal documents last week asserting that the Montana Water Court, not state or federal district courts, should have authority to decide water rights disputes on the Flathead Indian Reservation. If the state prevails in its filing...
News from the Lake County Conservation District POLSON — Lake County Conservation District supervisors are launching the Swan Resource Management Study. Jim Simpson, LCCD chair, LCCD directors and Dennis DeVries, SWMS project director, invite interested members of the public to the Polson Senior ...
POLSON — Dennis Jay Hobbs, 56 of Polson, was arrested May 19 for allegedly stalking a woman and attempting to hire someone to kill her. He was also charged with distributing an interview recorded between the victim and the defense attorney. Bail was set for $5 million. In district co...
HELENA — A Polson man serving 200 years in prison for incest and sexual abuse of children has appealed his case to the Montana Supreme Court. In a May 16 appeal, public defenders asked the high court for access to records compiled by the Montana Department of Health and Human Services ab...
