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Fern looking forward to Legislative session after long campaign
Incoming state Sen. Dave Fern is looking forward to the upcoming session. Fern represents Senate District 2, which…
City scales back resort tax penalties
The City of Columbia Falls is still looking at a new law that would implement penalties to businesses that are chronically late paying resort taxes, but it won’t look to implement criminal penalties for non-payment…
Oberling pleads guilty in electrocution case
Locally renowned landscape painter Nicholas Oberling pleaded guilty to criminal endangerment Monday, testifying that he ran a live wire into his significant ot…
Buy a painting, help Owen Sowerine Natural Area
The Flathead Land Trust is currently auctioning off paintings to support a critical conservation easement to preserve the Owen Sowerine Natural Area along the …
Opinion: Swan watching takes a turn
So Sunday morning I was out swan watching. What, you’ve never swan watched before? It’s when you stand on a frozen rock with frozen shoes in freezing weather w…
The Blotter: Collision results in flipped vehicle on River Road
A truck t-boned and flipped a parked vehicle on River Road early in the morning, medical units responded to two injuries.
Yesterdays: Howard G. Satterthwaite was named general manager of the new Anaconda Aluminum Co. plant in Columbia Falls
The type II polio vaccine was coming to Columbia Falls. The cost was 50 cents. Big winds swept across the region and the state. Helena saw a gust of 74 mph and…
Book Review: Trout Town a fun romp
When Montana author Dave Ames gave me a review copy of his latest book, “Trout Town” I expected a tome of essays on trout, and fishing, a la John Gierach.
Lots of work ahead
This past election cycle has really woken me up to the condition of our country and the work that lays ahead. Also this morning I posted on FB “VOTE YOUR FAITH, VOTE YOUR CONVICTIONS VOTE YOUR BIBLE” so FB restrict…
Rotary Brunch with Santa returns this year
Kids 12 and younger are free to enter. Adult tickets for the meal are $10. All proceeds from the event go back into the community by means of the charitable wo…
Boy Scouts sought for troop
Local Boy Scout Troop 1941
Subdivision planned near Meadow Lake Resort
Schellinger Construction has plans for a 103-lot subdivision near Meadow Lake Resort.
Highway 206 construction done for the winter; paving next year
The Montana Department of Transportation and Riverside Contracting have paused construction on Secondary Highway 206 near Columbia Falls for the winter season.
Columbia Falls man sentenced for drug charge in Lincoln County
A Columbia Falls man facing drug charges in Lincoln County after a traffic stop in June near Fortine pleaded guilty and was sentenced on Monday, Nov. 7.
Essex worried that phone ‘solution’ won’t work
Essex residents are wondering why the rule has not already been enforced, as the members of the community have gone weeks without service at times.
Community events: Free meals, Thrift store
Columbia Falls Community Kitchen will be serving free, hot meals on Nov. 29 and 30 at 6 p.m. in the basement of St. Richard’s Catholic Church.