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College celebrates its beginning College celebrates its beginning

It’s such a big celebration that it couldn’t fit into one day. So the folks at Salish Kootenai College decided to make a weeklong celebration to honor those who helped to develop the college.  “The goal and vision was to help capture the vision of those founders who worked so dilige...

Briefs for Nov. 4, 2015

WWI film, music night set at museum POLSON — “A Night at the Museum” offers free, fun, family, educational entertainment Thursday, Nov. 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the Miracle of America Museum in Polson. Just one day after Veterans Day, the program will be showing “America Over There...

Looking to the future: Tribes celebrate Salish Kootenai Dam Looking to the future: Tribes celebrate Salish Kootenai Dam

PABLO — When Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council Chairman Vernon Finley said, “Let’s name it after the owners of the dam — The Salish Kootenai Dam,” the crowd at the dam acquisition ceremony smiled and applauded. After 30 years of litigation and negotiation, the C...

Power to the people Power to the people

Ever since the land was new, before Flathead Lake and the Flathead River had names, snow has been falling on the mountains, melting and finding its way down the timbered slopes, into small creeks and streams before flowing into the lake.  The lake narrows into Flathead River, where five miles southwe...

Kerr Dam event to be broadcast

PABLO — KSKC Public TV will be broadcasting the Kerr Project Acquisition Community Event on Sept. 5 from the Joe McDonald Gym on the SKC Campus in Pablo on channel 27.2. The station will also stream the events on the Internet. The link to the stream will be posted on the SKC website at www.skc.edu by F...

Tribes event to commemorate Kerr Dam acquisition Tribes event to commemorate Kerr Dam acquisition

PABLO — The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes invite the community to participate in an upcoming event to commemorate the tribal acquisition of the Kerr Hydroelectric Project on Saturday, Sept. 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Joe McDonald Gymnasium at Salish Kootenai College. The tribal commu...

Miss Montana USA tours Lake County, shoots with Women on Target Miss Montana USA tours Lake County, shoots with Women on Target

POLSON — The title Miss Montana conjures up a glittering evening gown, a tiara and a satiny sash. Miss Montana USA Tahnee Peppenger certainly can hold her own in a sparkly dress, but she was equally at home at the Polson Shooters Association shooting range on Aug. 22. Peppenger, 27, is a Montana nat...

Guitar celebration coming to Finley Point

FINLEY POINT — The 2015 Crown Guitar Summer Celebration Series, produced by the Crown of the Continent Guitar Foundation (COCGF), will present “Live at Finley Point Grill” on Wednesday, Aug. 5. The fundraising event will feature guitarist Mike Murray and his band performing on the lawn.&nbs...

Students earn guitar workshop scholarships Students earn guitar workshop scholarships

PABLO — Organizers of the Crown of the Continent Guitar Foundation announced today that five students at Salish Kootenai College have been awarded a $5,000 scholarship to attend this summer’s Crown Guitar Workshop Aug. 30 – Sept. 6 at Flathead Lake Lodge in Bigfork. Two of the winners ha...

Art teachers converge to boost creativity Art teachers converge to boost creativity

PABLO — Stones as big as Volkswagen buses hunkered in the rock yard at Cold Springs Granite Company, according to Corwin “Corky” Clairmont, nationally-renowned artist and art instructor at Salish Kootenai College.  Clairmont chose a black granite “bus” with some flecks o...


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