Flathead Electric Cooperative customers in the West Valley area, including Glacier High School, experienced a 45-minute power outage Tuesday. Co-op crews doing some work on a substation caused the outage, which occurred just before noon and for a time affected Glacier High’s back-to-school Student Jamboree. According to Flathead Electric representative Scott Mitton, almost 1,800 people were affected by the outage. 

A man suffered a heart attack and died at a Kalispell golf course on Monday, according to the Kalispell Police Department. No other details were available.

In other news, a woman said she “set her wallet down and a man picked it up and took off with it” from a location on U.S. 93 North on Monday. 

A man called police saying he had written a song, and a music store in town would not give the music back to him until he purchased a guitar. 

A woman called from Sixth Street West saying she was in the hospital overnight and her cat had been stolen. 

A woman was reported stealing “meats and cheese” from a Third Avenue East North location. 

A man called police saying he believed that a skunk family has moved into his neighborhood. The man, calling from a location on Fifth Street West, said he is unable to leave his windows open at night because of the “intense skunk smell.” He also stated that he does not believe the smell was drug-related. 

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office responded to a “small, injured bird” on Panoramic Drive on Monday. According to dispatch, it was “dropped off with the bird lady.” 

A woman called officers when someone allegedly threw a rock at her when she was driving Monday. The woman stated she believed it was done intentionally and that she felt “there was a hit out on her.” Officers concluded that the crack in the windshield was likely a regular rock chip. 

A woman reported that her father took a hatchet to her camper and her truck, causing damage to both and slashing the truck’s tires on Monday near Columbia Falls. 

A man called to say his soon-to-be-ex-wife was using his identity to get credit cards and home equity loans, among other things. The man said his soon-to-be-ex has pursued fraud charges against him and he would like to file the same charges on her.