Rosters announced for high school all-star basketball games at NIC

COEUR d’ALENE — Selections have been announced for the 2020 Idaho Statewide High School All-Star Basketball Games, presented by Idaho Central Credit Union, scheduled for March 14 at North Idaho College’s Rolly Williams Court.

Prep Volleyball: Wolfpack too much for Bulldogs

Wolfpack win volleyball match 25-14, 25-15, 25-22

WHITEFISH - Lexy Boschee had 11 kills and Paige Latimer turned in 30 assists and six services as the Glacier Wolfpack made fairly quick work Saturday of host Whitefish in a nonconference volleyball matchup.

Old school has new options

LIBBY - The old high school building in downtown Libby may have a new lease on life following a meeting last week between the school board and a Spokane developer interested in renovating the nearly 90-year-old structure.

Front court leads Braves past Wildcats

Osweiler, Hogan combine for 41 points in 63-56 Flathead win

LCC to offer distance learning using VisionNet

By Paul Boring, Western News Reporter

Kats bounce back, blitz Bigfork, 1-0

Hard-nosed defense and a lone goal in the 62nd minute allowed Columbia Falls to record a girls soccer 1-0 shutout victory over visiting Bigfork on a hot Tuesday afternoon. The win evened the Wildkats' Northern A Conference record at 1-1 after a 4-2 loss to Libby last Saturday. C-Falls is 3-2 overall.

Alda Zerr

Alda Pearl Zerr, of Whitefish, 86, passed away Aug. 16, 2009, at the Kalispell Regional Medical Center of complications due to pneumonia.

Auditorium loan paid off

Corruption, in verse

The late Dr. Gordon Edwards was not only an internationally respected scientist and "guru" of Glacier National Park mountain climbers, but he had a deep interest and concern for the social world around him. While he was a combat solider in World War II, he found a poem written by the famous Ogden Nash and through that bit of unusual literature, they became corresponding friends after the war.

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Canyon dinners

Can't anybody do this job right?

Here’s a tip for anyone thinking about seeking public office. Don’t run for state superintendent of public instruction, because it is by far the worst job in Idaho politics.

White House aims to make it easier for people to get vaccine

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is trying to overcome diminishing demand for COVID-19 shots by making it easier for Americans to get vaccinated even as the United States is set to meet President Joe Biden's goal of administering

LHS hopes to find ways to reduce dropout rates

School officials had hoped to glean insight from survey results of Libby High School dropouts that would help steer the district’s efforts in increasing graduation rates. 

Troopers behind pickup's disappearance

AA wrestling: Wolfpack state champs

BILLINGS - It turned out to be everything the coaches, the wrestlers and the Glacier Wolfpack wrestling community dreamed about.

'Grave robber' was only weeding

Flathead County Sheriff’s deputies were alerted to a possible grave robber Saturday at a cemetery at the corner of Rose Crossing and Whitefish Stage Road. It turned out be a woman weeding and putting flowers on her husband’s grave.

Ford Wesley Knight, 80

Ford went to be with our Lord Jesus Christ on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, in Kalispell. Ford was born Sept. 18, 1929, in Butte, to Jack and Blanche (Dickson) Knight. He was followed by brother, Rutherford, and sister, Geraldine. He went to grade school in Bannack and graduated from Beaverhead High School where he played in the East-West Shrine Football game. During the summer he spent time in the Big Hole, haying on the Jardine ranch. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in metallurgical engineering and graduate fellowship from the Montana School of Mines while working in several of the Butte mines. Over his extensive international career, Ford performed duties as manager and project engineer for the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in Anaconda; E.I. Dupont, Savannah River Plane, Aiken, S.C.; Los Alamos Scientific Lab, K Division, Los Alamos, N.M.; Atomic Power Development Association (Detroit Edison) and FERMI lab, Detroit; United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Dounreay Fast Reactor Facility, Thurso, Scotland; Westinghouse Electric, France; General Electric in Richland, Wash., San Jose and Vallecitos, Calif., and Tokyo, Japan; Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Division, Pittsburgh; Westinghouse Electric, Advanced Energy Systems/Waste Management/Environmental Remediation Divisions, Pittsburgh; and Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, Wash. Ford s professional affiliations included: Westinghouse Electric s representative on and charter member of the committee on Nuclear Quality Assurance, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an early and catalyzing member of the ASQC working group on ASQC E-4, Environmental Quality Assurance. Ford was published many times in major publications between 1960 and 1991. One of these publications titled, Acubic Expansion of PU and PU-FE Eutectic Between Room Temperature and 700 to 800 degrees Celsius, was presented at the Second International Conference on Plutonium Metallurgy, Grenoble, France. While in Pittsburgh, Ford met and married his wife, Nancy Fried Knight. They together raised sons, John and Matthew, on a farm in Saxonburg, Pa. Ford was a well-respected farmer, raising corn and soybeans along with hogs and black angus cattle. All of this was to show my sons good work ethic. Ford and his family returned to his beloved Montana in 1991. He and his family have enjoyed many years in the Flathead Valley where both sons have met and married their wives, Carrie Griffin Knight and daughter, Tia, and Heather Broeder Knight and daughter, Tiffany, and son, Cody. Ford is survived by his loving wife, Nancy; his sons, John and Matthew; daughter, Leslie Smail, and husband, Eric Hunley; nephew and niece, Jarrod and Atari Faust; and countless friends. Ford was a patriot and loved the free United States of America. The most important thing in Ford s life was his relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Throughout his entire life he credited and honored our Heavenly Father. This was his most cherished legacy. Amen. The celebration of Ford s life will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 30, at Cornerstone Community Church, 1970 U.S. 93 N., in Kalispell. Now go straight home and no bar hopping. Friends are encouraged to visit the Web site at www.buffalohillfh.com to leave notes of condolences for the family. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home is caring for the family. Memorials are suggested to Crossroads Community Church; the Veterans Food Pantry; or a charity of the donor s choice.

Etched in metal: Moses Lake fabricator expands custom design business

For Chris Ball of Moses Lake, it all started when his younger brother wouldn’t let him borrow his welding kit to work on an off-road truck at age 16. Ball said he took it as a challenge to work with metal fabrication.

Basketball: Bison hold off Braves

Great Falls scored on five of its last seven possessions to edge Flathead 62-58 in a nonconference Class AA boys basketball game Saturday at Flathead High School.

Jazz trumpeter a rising star in music world