Articles with the Tag: Lake County
LAKE COUNTY — Eldena Bear Don’t Walk and George Kipp III are vying for House District 15. Bear Don’t Walk is an attorney, appellate justice and nonprofit consultant who has lived in Lake County since 2003. Bear Don’t Walk’s mother is from the area, so she spent almost e...
Senator John Walsh joined 77 World War II veterans on the National Mall May 12 who participated in the final World War II Big Sky Honor Flight. Sen. Tester, a longtime member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, was also in attendance at the May 12 honor flight events. Walsh, who is the Honorary Chai...
News from the Lake County Pachyderm Club POLSON — Dennis Jones, owner of a franchise of Interquest Detection Canines, the largest and oldest such company in the U.S., will be the guest speaker at the Friday, May 23 meeting of the Lake County Pachyderm Club held at the Polson Rural Fire Department bu...
POLSON — After two weeks of testimony and two days of jury deliberations, the jury ordered Hyundai Motor Company and Hyundai Motor America to pay more than $240 million in damages to families of the two teens killed in a 2011 Arlee wreck. The jury found that a defective steering knuckle cause...
LAKE COUNTY – June 3 will mark the first election since Montana’s political lines were redrawn because of Congressional redistricting, and staff at the Lake County Election Office are working to make sure people are minimally confused when heading out to the polls. Lake County Election A...
POLSON – On May 8, 17-year-old Chance Herreid pleaded not guilty to one misdemeanor and five felony charges in connection with an April 29 shooting. According to court documents, Polson Police responded on April 29 to Sixth Avenue West and Third Street West for a report of shots possibly fired from ...
RONAN — May 23 is the deadline to submit questions for the May 30 candidate forum organized by Round Butte Grange 126. The Lake County and State forum will take place May 30 at 7 p.m. at the Museum in the old Round Butte gym. If you would like to have a question answered by a candidate, send your qu...
HELENA — On May 7 the Montana Supreme Court denied a Lake County woman’s request to be resentenced for a 2012 drug conviction. The high court disagreed with Desiree Peone’s legal counsel, who argued in briefs first submitted on August 21, 2013 that a judge for the Lake County District Co...
On the June 3 ballot is the election for Lake County District Attorney. Incumbent Mitch Young is running against challenger Steve Eschenbacher. Eschenbacher, managing attorney for the Office of the Public Defender in Polson, has lived in Lake County for five and a half years and moved here from Hamilton. ...
POLSON — Four candidates have thrown their hats in the ring for the office of Lake County Sheriff/Coroner. Since all are Republicans, the primary election will decide the election. The four candidates are Don Bell, Kim Leibenguth, Rick Schoening and Dan Yonkin. Bell was born in Ronan and ha...
