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LDS Church announces changes

News from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Recent changes for the local members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have been implemented as the Kalispell and Missoula stakes have split and a third stake has been created. The new Frenchtown stake includes the following bra...

Montana State Seniors Bowling Tournament – Third weekend (unofficial standings)

News from Lucky Strike Bowling Alley Women’s Divison Super Seniors (age 75 and up) 1. Shirley ChristiansonGt. Falls1369 2. Lois Pirker                Kalispell1360 3. Lorraine Hodges        Bigfork1327 4. Peggy Rel...

Apprentice hunter program open to youth, mentors

News from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Montana’s general deer and elk season opened Oct. 21. If you want to expose a young person to hunting and mentor that person through their first hunt, now is a good time to consider signing them up for the Apprentice Hunter program. With that, it’...

Local state rep addresses Pachyderms about budget deficit Local state rep addresses Pachyderms about budget deficit

POLSON — State Rep. Greg Hertz provided some perspective on the state’s budget deficit at the Lake County Pachyderm Club meeting last week. Hertz, R-Polson, a member of the House Taxation Committee, said he doesn’t believe things are as dire as the governor’s office has said. ...

Fighting to protect the Flathead Fighting to protect the Flathead

POLSON — An impending state budget cut has forced the Flathead Basin Commission to consider alternative funding mechanisms, including a possible alliance with Lake and Flathead counties and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The FBC is a state entity that was created in 1983 to protect the...

Free drug deactivation bags available

ST. IGNATIUS — On Oct. 25 Tribal Health will distribute free Deterra® Drug Deactivation bags to Tribal Health recipients and any community members.  Deterra® Drug Deactivation systems allow recipients to dispose of prescription drugs and over-the-counter painkillers at hom...

Montana-made film coming to Polson

POLSON — “A tense survival saga and disarmingly moving father-son tale.”  Those words describe “Walking Out,” a one-hour, 35-minute film set in the mountains of western Montana.  Brothers Alex and Andrew Smith, who were born in England but raised on a ranch in we...

Briefs for Oct. 18, 2017

Enter National ‘Letters About Literature’ competition Letters About Literature: Read. Be inspired. Write back. 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 agai...

Veteran Spotlight Veteran Spotlight

Who would have thought a young man in 1945 would travel virtually around the world at age 18? Not Bill Browning, who was then in high school. Bill has a newspaper picture of himself helping with the “Buy a B-29 Bomber” Sixth War Loan Drive at Lincoln High School in Seattle, Washington.   ...

Peer group for drug addicts opens in Ronan Peer group for drug addicts opens in Ronan

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...


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