Construction as a classroom
Flathead High School house construction teacher Brock Anderson assists senior Skylar Fincher in cutting wood to build a stairwell in the student-built home.
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Bigfork High School August tour
A broken window is seen during a tour of Bigfork High School July 30. Bigfork School District is asking voters to approve a $14 million bond in a mail ballot election. Of the $14 million, about $5.4 includes deffered maintenance.
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Students pepper Zinke with questions
American history teacher Brian Fox’s seventh graders were not afraid to ask tough questions of U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., during a video chat session Thursday afternoon.
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Sound wizard helps tune rooms
Sitting behind a laptop in one of Whitefish High School’s new music practice rooms, engineer and SnowGhost Music owner Brett Allen shows two physics students how “pink noise” he recorded earlier was translated visually into a graph.
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Let there be lights - Display stretches across three yards
Dan Hodge has more than 40 years of experience stringing up Christmas lights and setting up elaborate displays for the delight of people who drive by 7 Konley Drive west of Kalispell.
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Kalispell teams open year with home speech meet
The war of words in Kalispell begins Saturday.
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Flathead High School senior wins car for perfect attendance
Flathead High School junior Jesse Pentelute was at the back of a crowd at Green Nissan when his name was called as the winner of a 2013 Nissan Versa Saturday.
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Music just one of many passions for well-rounded Glacier senior
Glacier High School senior Nathan Connell carried a tune before he knew musical concepts such as rhythm, tempo and pitch.
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Marion puts two levy choices before voters
Marion School is requesting a $67,000 technology levy over 10 years and a $33,708 general fund levy.
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Bigfork's Destination Imagination team
Evan Benton and Grant Gibson practice part of their skit for Bigfork’s Destination Imagination team.
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Ti-Rangles team
Riley Hoveland and Cole Hider are part of the seven-member Ti-Rangles team that will compete in the Destination Imagination Global Finals in Knoxville, Tenn.
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Local students show off their smarts at annual competition
The energy was electric Tuesday at the annual Flathead County Science Fair.
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Tournament brings out gift of gab
Shouting, singing and laughing drifted from behind closed doors, breaking the silence of empty hallways at Flathead High School Friday night.
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Bigfork band needs instrument help
About 30 band instruments that are more than 40 years old need replacement in the Bigfork School District.
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School year opens with full classes
The first day of school was finally here Wednesday for Edgerton School’s “Super Second” class team-taught by teachers Shelly Kennedy and Suzanne Elliott.
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Jim Bell
Jim Bell, 89, plans to join the Climb Big Mountain hike today.
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Third year of math required in high school
Students who will be sophomores at Glacier and Flathead high schools for the 2013-14 school year will be the first class required to take three years of math.
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Schools plan energy-saving projects
Kalispell Public Schools is moving forward with $3.2 million in energy-saving projects.
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Rebecca Vance
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Local students heading to national speech meet
Nineteen local speech and debate stars rose to the top this weekend at the 2013 Montana National Forensic League Qualifier Tournament.
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Graduation Matters Kalispell
Caleb LeClercq’s logo design won a contest for Graduation Matters Kalispell.
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Go hog wild: Pig wrestling teams get down and dirty in muddy competition
There was standing room only — and a whole lot of squealing — at the opening round of Double D Pig Wrestling at the Northwest Montana Fair Friday.
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Schools welcome new principals, superintendents
As the new school year quickly approaches, school districts across the valley have been filling up principal and superintendent positions.
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Bigfork senior aims to pursue geosciences
Graduating Bigfork High School senior Shane Park wants to study the ground beneath his feet.
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No school cuts planned after levy rejection
History repeated itself in Tuesday’s Kalispell Public Schools election when an elementary levy request passed and a high school building reserve levy request failed.
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Fixing Flathead: Backlog of needed repairs piles up
On a recent school tour, Flathead High School Principal Peter Fusaro walks to the east main office entrance of the school.
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Unique IB program still flourishes at Flathead High
The focus of the International Baccalaureate Programme is a rigorous curriculum with a world vantage point.
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School gets help from Springsteen connections
Getting one ticket to see Bruce Springsteen play in concert for $10 would in itself be remarkable. Getting two tickets for that price is unheard of.
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Molly Schmidt
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District challenged by proliferation of tech devices
Operating without a high school building reserve levy this year to fund technology concerns Rich Lawrence, information technology director for Kalispell Public Schools.
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Midnight madness: Sleepless shoppers hit the stores
Doorbuster deals and earlier-than-usual store openings on Black Friday pushed the “shop till you drop” mantra to a whole new level in the Flathead Valley this year.
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Judges needed for Kalispell speech meet
About 200 judges are needed for the Kalispell Western Regional Speech and Debate Tournament Friday and Saturday.
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Family, volunteers pull together after fire
Ryan Pengelly and his wife Crystal watched volunteers tear apart what remained of their home Saturday.
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School website opens to public comment
Kalispell Public Schools have a new avenue for the public to comment.
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School lunch with a local flavor
With more than 4,000 meals served a day in Kalispell schools, Jenny Montague’s new position as food service director for District 5 is an important one.
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Boy, 12 recovering from cardiac arrest
Sitting on the couch in the family room of his family’s Columbia Falls home, Beau Bronson looks like an average sixth-grader.
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'Cove' turns teen into dolphin defender
Melissa Batt of Coram was so affected after watching a documentary called “The Cove” that she rented out Discovery Square in Columbia Falls to hold a free public screening and raise awareness.
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Teen recovering from head injury
When 18-year-old Daniel “Dano” Busick of Columbia Falls partially opened his eyes Oct. 15 — and when he smiled on Oct. 19 – his family knew he had the will to fight for his life.
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Hiker covers every mile of park trails
Three pairs of shoes and 734 miles later, Jake Bramante emerged from Lincoln Lake trailhead as the first person in recent history to have hiked every Glacier National Park trail in one season.
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Grant applications sought by education foundation
The Kalispell Education Foundation is seeking grant applications from Kalispell teachers.
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Group transforms sick girl's bedroom
While designers were busy redoing her bedroom in Kalispell, Katelyn Roker was in a hospital 250 miles away fighting for her life.
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New rules restrict when bands can play
Bands are playing less at high school football games due to new rules from the Montana High School Association.
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Bigfork offers high school diploma online
There are no boundaries in the virtual world of learning and Bigfork High School is taking advantage of that through Bigfork Digital High School.
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African Children's Choir performs in Whitefish
Two worlds will meet tonight in Whitefish across a bridge built of music.
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Pick a peck of potatoes: Garden teams up students, community in Whitefish
The second annual harvest of the Lions Club Farm to School Garden was under way Thursday in Whitefish.
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Perfect attendance nets chance to win car
Flathead Valley high school students have a big reason to look forward to waking up bright and early each day to attend school.
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Lockers highlight of school addition, teens say
The 169 students at Fair-Mont-Egan School now have an additional 3,000 square feet of space to explore at their school.
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Flathead students get historical perspective of 9/11
Flathead High School social studies teachers focused on a historical perspective to the events surrounding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as they gave short presentations Thursday to inform students and dispel myths.
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