Carey Swanberg retires after 37 years

LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Flowering Rush: An invasive aquatic problem

LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Tester takes questions from PHS seniors

LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Flathead Joint Board rejects election results

LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Tribes celebrate migratory bird return

LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

St. Ignatius school district votes against bond initiative

LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Keeping those ticks off

LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Fort Connah holds its annual open house and rendezvous

Tepees, wagons, pioneers and atlatls. These were a few of the things visitors could check out at this years Fort Connah Rendezvous north of St. Ignatius.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Earth Day Celebration

Sapling planting, music, and making pine-cone-bird-feeders were just a few of the the activities available at the Earth Day celebration put on by Mission’s Students Serving Community (SSC) at Mission’s Good Old Days Park on Sunday afternoon.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Law office seeks investigation of Polson Rural Fire District

A letter requesting an investigation into possible misconduct within the Polson Rural Fire District was sent to Steve Eschenbacher from Kim Christopherson Law Office in Kalispell.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

FJBC elections to continue as planned

Thursday’s Flathead Joint Board of Control (FJBC) meeting ended with a vote to cancel the upcoming election.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Arlee holds first community-wide Earth Day celebration

Arlee kids and community members celebrated Earth Day last Friday with a slew of events around the town.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Polson Fairground Holds Annual Cowboy Ball

Polson Fairgrounds Inc. (PFI) held its Annual Cowboy Ball last Friday to raise money for general improvements and maintenance for the Polson Fairgrounds. The non-profit organization leases the fairgrounds from Lake County and maintains the buildings and grounds throughout the year.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Commissioners oppose refugees resettling in county

The Lake County Commisioners Office sent a letter to Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration at the U.S. Department of State with its official stance on accepting refugees. “The Lake County Commissioners are opposed to the resettling of refugees from any country in Lake …
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Early Bloomers

The spring bloom is a beautiful time in the valley with thousands of trees covered in pink and white petals and aromatic breezes joining the drafts blowing off Flathead Lake. Though it’s still early for the flower petals to be filling yards all over, signs are everywhere that it isn’t …
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Bees Making Their Way Back to Lake County

The old saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers.” And while it’s true that flowers need their water, what is often forgotten in that mix is the humble honey bee.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Three accidents over five days cause nine injuries, one death

This past week, three major accidents kept law enforcement busy. One accident, Sunday night, resulted in a fatality.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Aloha Noblehouse Inc. continues greenhouse project

Aloha Noblehouse, Inc. Executive Director, Kay Midro, plunged a gold-painted shovel into the farmland that will eventually house a 260,000 square-feet greenhouse and up to 24 three-bedroom affordable housing units. Although the construction won’t actually begin for several more months, Thursday’s “groundbreaking ceremony” was a symbolic showing of the progress …
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Expressing Culture

A small group of men sat around a drum, waiting for the announcer in the center of the Mission gym to give them the go ahead.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Local Verizon customers affected by cut cable

For some cellular customers in the Mission Valley, service has been less than great lately.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO