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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Kristi Niemeyer
May 8—Mission Valley Live wraps up its performing arts season with a splash, courtesy of Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah. Members of the nation's oldest and most successful repertory dance company will bring a dozen programs to area schools and other Mission Valley venues, before taking the stage at the Ronan Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. next Friday, May 16. Their performance "will be by far our biggest production of this season," says MVL board president Brian Campbell.
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1 week ago | 
leaderadvertiser.com | Kristi Niemeyer
Mission Valley Live wraps up its performing arts season with a splash, courtesy of Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah. Members of the nation’s oldest and most successful repertory dance company will bring a dozen programs to area schools and other Mission Valley venues, before taking the stage at the Ronan Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. next Friday, May 16. Their performance “will be by far our biggest production of this season,” says MVL board president Brian Campbell.
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2 weeks ago | 
vp-mi.com | Kristi Niemeyer
From eight months to 80-plus years, the crowd gathered at the Weible Ranch south of Charlo for Saturday's branding represented generations of family and friends. Cowhands wrangled three calves at a time to the ground, damp from Saturday’s sporadic rain showers. One perched on a calf’s head while the other stretched out its back legs and held on. The youngsters bawled as they were poked with needles, doused with wormer, and finally sizzled with a red-hot branding iron, wielded by Duane Weible.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Kristi Niemeyer
Apr. 24—The Polson City Commission met Monday night with attorney Jordan Crosby, who was hired during the previous meeting to help guide the process of appointing a city judge. The city has two candidates for the four-year position: incumbent Mike Larson and Barb Monaco, the former juvenile probation officer for Lake and Sanders counties.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Kristi Niemeyer
Apr. 24—From eight months to 80-plus years, the crowd gathered at the Weible Ranch south of Charlo for Saturday's branding represented generations of family and friends. Cowhands wrangled three calves at a time to the ground, damp from Saturday's sporadic rain showers. One perched on a calf's head while the other stretched out its back legs and held on.
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3 weeks ago | 
leaderadvertiser.com | Kristi Niemeyer
From eight months to 80-plus years, the crowd gathered at the Weible Ranch south of Charlo for Saturday's branding represented generations of family and friends. Cowhands wrangled three calves at a time to the ground, damp from Saturday’s sporadic rain showers. One perched on a calf’s head while the other stretched out its back legs and held on. The youngsters bawled as they were poked with needles, doused with wormer, and finally sizzled with a red-hot branding iron, wielded by Duane Weible.
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3 weeks ago | 
leaderadvertiser.com | Kristi Niemeyer
The Polson City Commission met Monday night with attorney Jordan Crosby, who was hired during the previous meeting to help guide the process of appointing a city judge. The city has two candidates for the four-year position: incumbent Mike Larson and Barb Monaco, the former juvenile probation officer for Lake and Sanders counties. Crosby, who works for a Great Falls law firm and specializes in municipal law, told the commission that she’s helped other communities in Montana navigate the process.
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3 weeks ago | 
leaderadvertiser.com | Kristi Niemeyer
Montana, as well as the rest of the United States, has been considered measles-free since 2000. As of last Friday, however, 800 cases had been reported nationwide, with the deaths of two children ages 6 and 8 in Texas, and the death of an adult in New Mexico. All three were unvaccinated. Montana is now on the list of at least seven other states with active outbreaks (three or more cases).
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1 month ago | 
leaderadvertiser.com | Kristi Niemeyer
Last Wednesday’s groundbreaking ceremony for the new 400 Horses Casino on the outskirts of Polson opened to the steady pulse of two drums, Yamncut and Chief Cliff, as Gene Sorrell – attired in an eagle-feather headdress – blessed the drummers and the celebration. Members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council and other dignitaries were seated under a big tent on an open field west of Irvine Flats Road, along with tribal members, community leaders and the press.
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1 month ago | 
leaderadvertiser.com | Kristi Niemeyer
Ballots will be mailed tomorrow, April 18, for school board and special purpose districts, and must be returned via mail or in person to the Lake County Election Administrator by Tuesday, May 6. Arlee voters will choose among six trustees to fill two seats on the board. Incumbent Brian Johnson-BigSam has filed for reelection; he’ll face Kevin Howard, Arthur (Hank) Adams, Kelly Pierre, Cammie DuPuis-Pablo and Samantha Lytie.
