Articles with the Tag: Lake County
RONAN — A new evening recovery center for drug addicts, the Never Alone Recovery Hall, recently opened on Main Street thanks to the combined efforts of Don Roberts and a supportive community. Twenty people from an addiction-focused support group are helping, Farmers Insurance agent Diane Ivano...
A hot meal can be the centerpiece for socializing or fill the gnawing ache of hunger for those in need. Many free meals in Lake County from Polson to St. Ignatius provide both food and friendship for folks who need either. JourneyBe Pastor John Payne in Polson said people sit down to the weekly meal...
POLSON — A charge of possession with intent to distribute illegal drugs was dismissed last month against a Ronan man while another charge remains. The Lake County Attorney’s Office filed two separate charges against Brian Francis Charette, 44, stemming from Dec. 30, 2016, and June 2.&nbs...
POLSON – Tim Brester was working at the old Ben Franklin store in 1995 when a friend told him about an EMT class. He took the four-month class and was hooked. “I went not knowing the depth of training and responsibilities that went along with it,” he said, adding that he fell in lo...
POLSON – Lake County Commissioner Bill Barron was recently named president of the Montana Association of Counties’ Executive Committee. The one-year term began when he was sworn in Sept. 20 during MACo’s annual convention in Bozeman. Barron, who has served on the Lake Coun...
POLSON — A 28-year-old man initially held on a deliberate homicide charge has been released from jail, County Attorney Steve Eschenbacher said. Ryan Jerry Black was released Monday, Sept. 18, with a requirement that he wear a GPS monitoring device and not return to Lake County except to meet w...
2017 Letters About Literature student competition open Montana’s Center for the Book, a program of Humanities Montana, will be giving Montana students a chance to submit to the national Letters About Literature competition again this year. Letters About Literature is a reading and writing co...
POLSON – Work on a sober living house is progressing, and that has licensed addiction counselor Jay Brewer hopeful for a spring opening, if not sooner. Brewer, 54, is a former drug addict who, along with others from the One Heart Committee, is looking to provide a safe place before and after d...
POLSON – The public comment period for a new comprehensive conservation plan for the National Bison Range, Ninepipe Wildlife Refuge and other area conservation lands in Lake and Flathead counties has been extended. Bernardo Garza, a planning team leader with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Den...
POLSON – Saturday’s Aber Day Reunion concert will inaugurate a long-awaited expansive stage on the banks of the Flathead River. Identified in both the Lake County Master Plan and a recent feasibility study funded by a $30,000 grant, construction of the 2,640-square-foot structure is a pr...
