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Inspections keep children safe Inspections keep children safe

RONAN — Each time a child makes it home safely on a school bus in Montana, thank a Highway Patrol trooper. When they aren’t out taking bad guys off the streets or clearing wreckage from state highways, the troopers provide an often overlooked, yet essential, task for school safety: inspectio...

Daines,Tester nominate local students to military academies 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Steve Daines and U.S. Senator Jon Tester recently announced their nominations of Montana students applying for enrollment at U.S. military academies. “As the son of a Marine, I am honored to have the privilege of nominating these upstanding and hardworking Mon...

Remembrance lanterns send warm wishes, light into Ronan evening Remembrance lanterns send warm wishes, light into Ronan evening

RONAN – This is Harry Bean’s second Christmas without his wife, Judy.  “I took her with me everywhere I went for 43 years and she didn’t get tired of me, I guess,” Bean said with a laugh. “She always came home.”  It’s been many more years since ...

Ronan Elementary students entertain with festive program Ronan Elementary students entertain with festive program

RONAN – K. William Harvey Elementary School’s first, second, third and fourth grade classes packed the Performing Arts Center Tuesday in the annual “Christmas Carol-Along.”  Music teacher Tammy Krahn organized and conducted the show, which included “Joy to the World,&rdq...

School board’s interaction questioned

RONAN – Lake County Commissioner Gale Decker and parent Jennifer O’Connor expressed frustration with the lack of dialogue between members of the Ronan School Board and the public at the board’s Dec. 9 meeting.  O’Connor questioned the board’s previous interactions with h...

Remembrance lanterns to honor lost loved ones

RONAN — The holidays are a time when the ones we love are greatly missed, whether they have passed on or are miles away. To remember those who cannot be with us during the holidays, the Ronan High School Student Council is sponsoring a “Remembrance Lantern” program. Ronan High School studen...

Martin Luther King Day essay contest announced

News from the Flathead Reservation Human Rights Coalition LAKE COUNTY — The Flathead Reservation Human Rights Coalition is sponsoring a Martin Luther King Day essay contest for grades 7-12. Entrants must explain in 250 words or less what the following quote by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. means to t...

Teachers raise funds at McDonald’s Teachers raise funds at McDonald’s

RONAN – Teachers at K. William Harvey Elementary School traded blackboards and grading pens for fry shovels and ice cream cups Dec. 3, as they manned stations at the Ronan McDonald’s during the dinnertime rush hour.  This is the second year the Ronan restaurant has allowed teachers to wor...

Homegrown radishes on school menu Homegrown radishes on school menu

Bitter cold has snuffed the life out of the last of any fruits and vegetables living along the valley floor in recent weeks; but on the day before Thanksgiving, Ronan High School students dug up radishes in a late harvest protected by a warm greenhouse. The radish growing project is part of a multi-facete...

Youth help town gear up for the holidays Youth help town gear up for the holidays

RONAN – It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in downtown Ronan, and some credit for that goes to the town’s youth. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Kicking Horse Job Corps students spent the day out in the cold, climbing ladders and twisting Christmas lights around posts and t...


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