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Visit a wildlife management area

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game manages 32 Wildlife Management Areas around the state. These sites have been established to protect wildlife habitat, and to provide opportunities for hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers.

Bonner County History - March 7, 2021

Bonner County Historical Society and Museum shares interesting stories of the community's people, places and events.

Peter John Pete Viano, 84

Peter John Pete Viano, age 84, passed away on Thursday, April 22, 2010, at Wel-Life in Kalispell. He was born on Nov. 25, 1925, in Kalispell, the son of Gaston and Mary (Zadra) Viano. The second of two children, he received his primary education in a one-room schoolhouse near the current West Valley School site. Pete s grandfather Viano emigrated from Italy and homesteaded west of Kalispell before buying land on Rhodes Draw in 1902. Pete s father was the last to farm the land, but it was a heritage that Pete did not want to lose, so he purchased his beloved farm in 1961. It remains in the family to this day. Pete s mother, a native of the valley, was born in 1891. She greeted the first train that came to Kalispell in the late 1890s. Pete worked several jobs before starting a 36-year career as a switchman and brakeman for Great Northern Railroad in 1949. He retired in 1985 from what had become the Burlington Northern Railroad. Pete married Kathryn Kay Greco in 1946. They were married for 61 years before her death in 2007. They had three children, Ron, Larry and Debbie. Pete loved the Flathead Valley and the many friends he had here. Over the years, he and Kay enjoyed trips in the U.S., Mexico and Europe, as well as several winters in Yuma, Ariz., with many of these friends. Pete really enjoyed sharing stories about the old days and was always ready for a good game of pinochle. So it was fitting that he spent his last day with family and also playing one final card game with friends. He was preceded in death by his wife and his parents. He is survived by his sons, Ron Viano and his wife, Nancy, of Boise, Idaho, and Larry Viano and his wife, Cindy, of Kalispell; his daughter, Debbie Sprague and her husband, Michael, of Boise; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; his sister, Della Spindler of Plains; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services for Pete will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, at Johnson-Gloschat Funeral Home with Fred Topp officiating. Visitation will be held from noon to 5 p.m. today, Tuesday, April 27, followed by a Rosary at 5 p.m. Burial will follow services at Glacier Memorial Gardens. The family requests memorials be given to the Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy at www.fsma.org or 925 Busse Road, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007. Johnson-Gloschat Funeral Home is caring for Pete s family. You are invited to go to www.jgfuneralhome.com to offer condolences and view Pete s tribute wall.

VISIT A WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) manages thirty-two Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) around the state. These sites have been established to protect wildlife habitat, and to provide opportunities for hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers.

Sun Road plan deserves a closer look

Twenty years ago, the Going-to-the-Sun Road advisory committee had its first meeting. The committee was formed with a lot of help from Montana’s congressional delegation after the Park Service proposed closing the road for two straight summers (four years total) on either side of the Divide for road reconstruction, a plan that was untenable for many people and businesses outside the park.

United Way announces $100K in Community Care Fund grants

Funds benefit nonprofits in Kootenai, Bonner, Shoshone counties

Funds benefit nonprofits in Kootenai, Bonner, Shoshone counties

Easement protects key link to Mission Valley wildlife corridor

A vital wildlife haven in the Mission Valley was protected last week through a conservation easement with Flathead Land Trust.

Covid vaccine clinic draws hundreds of kids

Christmas carols and health-care workers clad in elf costumes greeted over 200 children and their parents at a Covid-19 vaccination clinic Wednesday at the Flathead County Fairgrounds.

Bonner County History - July 28, 2022

Bonner County Historical Society and Museum shares interesting stories of the community's people, places and events.

AP Entertainment Digest for Friday, April 10

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Board seeks query

School board requests interview with Barringer

Libby School Board members have their sights set on one candidate, and if he turns out not to be the one, they will start the superintendent-selection process all over again.

French probe police station attack for any extremist ties

RAMBOUILLET, France (AP) — French anti-terrorism investigators questioned three detained people on Saturday, seeking to establish a motive and uncover any possible ties to extremism after a police official was fatally stabbed at a police station outside Paris.

Retired firefighter still going strong at age 80

Thompson heads state Landlords Association

At 80, former fire marshal and firefighter Gene Thompson fights mostly political flare-ups as the very active local chapter and state president of the Montana Landlords Association.

Beware of Blue Cross privatization

I am a pathologist living and working in the Kalispell area for nearly three years. I want to raise awareness of significant public concerns while providing personal as well as private information regarding what appears to be going on with the non-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana.

Snafu snags a candidate

SPIRIT LAKE — A Spirit Lake Fire District Board candidate believes the district is using a filing error he made against him.

Snafu snags a candidate

SPIRIT LAKE — A Spirit Lake Fire District Board candidate believes the district is using a filing error he made against him.

Flathead Valley Live on Stage kicks off season with Kubecca

Music makers

Flathead Valley Live on Stage will kick off its 2016-17 season on Friday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m. with musical duo Kubecca. The concert will be held at the Flathead High School Performance Hall, 644 Fourth Ave. W., Kalispell.

Legals September 23, 2018

No. 25684 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Columbia Falls City Council (Council) will hold a public hearing at its regular meeting on Monday, October 15, 2018 beginning at 7:00 PM in the City Hall Council Chambers, 130 6th Street West, Columbia Falls, MT, to consider the First Reading and Provisional Adoption of the Ordinance establishing the Columbia Rising Targeted Economic Development District (TEDD) and adoption of the Columbia Rising TEDD Comprehensive Development Plan. Columbia Falls intends to use tax increment financing in support of making infrastructure improvements as revenues permit and may issue tax increment financing bonds. And, at the Columbia Falls City Council regular meeting on Monday, November 5, 2018 beginning at 7:00 PM in the City Hall Council Chambers, 130 6th Street West, Columbia Falls, MT, the Council will consider the Second Reading and Final Adoption of the Ordinance establishing the Columbia Rising Targeted Economic Development District (TEDD) and adoption of the Columbia Rising TEDD Comprehensive Development Plan. The Columbia Rising TEDD is approximately 54 acres located northwest of the truck route, and south and east of the railroad rights-of-way in Section 8, Township 30 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Flathead County, Montana. More specifically, the area is located west of 4th Avenue West and 6th Avenue West, north of 3rd Street West and 5th Street West, east of the extension of 12th Avenue West, and south of the Vetville for Vets subdivision. All interested parties are encouraged to attend. Written comments on establishing the Columbia Rising Targeted Economic Development District (TEDD) and adoption of the Columbia Rising TEDD Comprehensive Development Plan may be submitted to Susan Nicosia, City Manager, City of Columbia Falls, 130 6th Street West, Columbia Falls, MT 59912 or [email protected]. For further information call the City at 406-892-4391. Sept. 23, 30, 2018 MNAXLP

Wolf snaps up spotlight

Protestors, citizens come out for Gov. Otter's visit to Spirit Lake

SPIRIT LAKE - The two sides stood apart in the drizzling rain, one holding signs protesting Idaho's second wolf hunt, the other the state's governor, about to honor Spirit Lake residents Rod and Nancy Erickson.