Articles with the Tag: Montana
CHARLO – Summertime fun can be found on the grounds at the Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana during the second annual Cultural Arts Fair. Local and regional artists, traditional skills demonstrators, live music, and Indian tacos and fry bread are on tap from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July...
HELENA – Across Montana, rural fire departments are often a community’s sole educator on a variety of safety topics for children and adults. From fire safety to the importance of wearing a seatbelt to the dangers of electricity, rural firemen and women provide valuable tools and life skills to Mo...
By Callahan Peel UM School of Journalism Celes Castrol remembers that day in eighth grade when she and her friends discovered the meth pipes in one girl’s parents’ room. Castrol and her friends decided to test them out, and from that point on, Castrol was hooked. She used on and of...
On my most recent telephone town hall with 28,000 Montanans, nearly 95 percent agreed that meth is a problem in Montana. Certainly, Barbara from Billings knows this to be true – she shared with me that her son is currently recovering from meth. One third of the record 3,400 children in Montana...
RONAN – United States Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana), stopped in Ronan to share his views on issues from healthcare to water rights on Wednesday, May 31. Tester said President Trump’s first proposed budget cuts a lot of federally funded programs, which if approved will negatively impact everyo...
News from the Governor’s Office MONTANA – Governor Steve Bullock, First Lady Lisa Bullock and the Montana Commission on Community Service recognized the 2017 recipients of the ServeMontana Awards on Friday, June 2. “It’s an incredible honor to recognize some of the outstanding...
Dr. Doug Melzer usually works nights in the emergency room at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. He spends most of his time dealing with the usual emergency room fare: heart attacks, pneumonia, broken hips. But about once a week he treats patients coming into the emergency room because they’re ...
POLSON – As a victim of child sexual abuse, Grace Manchala has a heart for child victims of sex trafficking. Manchala spoke about her passion to shed light on the problem before the Lake County Pachyderm Club on Friday, May 26. Growing up in India, Manchala suffered from abuse from a ...
PABLO – Marita Growing Thunder’s graduation ceremony from Polson High School on Saturday, June 3, marked the finish point of her yearlong project to give voice to missing or murdered indigenous women. “As many times as I wanted to give up, I made it,” she said. She vowed t...
LAKE COUNTY – Lake County’s election results once again predicted the overall winner of a major election during the May 25 Special Election for Montana’s U.S. House of Representatives seat. Montana’s overall numbers are at 50 percent for Republican candidate Greg Gianforte to Democ...
