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Flathead High graduate to perform at nation’s 250th jubilee

When Cole Knutson first joined choir at Kalispell Middle School, it was at the insistence of his mother. He loved piano, which he learned to play at the age of five, but wasn’t all that thrilled about singing.
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Blue Cow Car Wash expands herd into Evergreen

With this new innovation, the Blue Calf is able to accommodate dually pickup trucks and vehicles up to 8 feet tall.
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Historic guardians: Efforts work to preserve the story of Bigfork

As Denny Kellogg and Ed Gillenwater tell the story, though, Bigfork’s history actually began a little earlier: a modest 100 million years earlier, in fact. This was when the forces of nature conspired to carve the valleys and peaks that would one day come to define this scrappy little village …
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Flathead Valley Rotary Clubs rally for EPIC Day of Service

While Rotary is perhaps best known in the Flathead Valley for youth football and volleyball programs, the international club numbers 1.25 million members committed to humanitarian service in 122 countries.
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Bigfork celebrates 125 years this Sunday

On May 17, 1901, Everit L. Sliter, a scrappy 35-year-old from Michigan, filed an official plat for a townsite on the northeast shore of Flathead Lake.
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Bigfork Rotary Club rallies for EPIC Day of Service

On Saturday May 16, the Bigfork Rotary Club will join tens of thousands of Rotarians around the world to do what they have done for the last 25 years: quietly give back to their community in the form of service.
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Lakeside Quick Response Unit celebrates 45 years

Lakeside Quick Response Unit is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a community open house at the Ambulance Hall located at 201 Bills Road on May 17 from 12 to 4 p.m.
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A mother’s heart forged by foster care

Stephanie Ford remembers the Mother’s Day weekend she said goodbye to her child.
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Bigfork students learn to love the past in National History Day competition

It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as history: Today’s youth don’t care to learn about the people who came before them.
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Flathead County commissioners drop Sliter Park lease in “tough decision”

Flathead County commissioners voted unanimously last week against renewing the county’s lease on Sliter Park, a decision the park’s supporters described as disappointing but not unexpected.
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Kalispell motorist sentenced for fatal 2025 wreck near Bigfork

As officers led a weeping Kala Renee Knaus out of the packed Flathead County District Court courtroom Tuesday, she gazed at the father of the woman she killed in a drunken 2025 collision and nodded weakly.
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Spartan Race returns to Bigfork this weekend

Kaci Calaway has traveled the world as an elite Spartan Race competitor, from Abu Dhabi to Mexico, but there’s something special about the hometown race where she got her start in the sport.
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Flathead County commissioners drop Sliter Park lease in “tough decision”

Flathead County commissioners voted unanimously last week against renewing the county’s lease on Sliter Park, a decision the park’s supporters described as disappointing but not unexpected.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 1 WEEK, 4 DAYS AGO

Flathead County commissioners drop Sliter Park lease in “tough decision”

Flathead County commissioners voted unanimously last week against renewing the county’s lease on Sliter Park, a decision the park’s supporters described as disappointing but not unexpected.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 1 WEEK, 4 DAYS AGO

An Evergreen chamber success story found in new president

Jessi Nelson was sworn in this January, and she brings a broad array of experiences to the position.
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