Monday, December 15, 2025

'Teach Like a Pirate'

Dave Burgess, author of “Teach Like a PIRATE — Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator,” does a card trick for Flathead Valley educators — some of them dressed in pirate garb — during the fifth annual Teacher Appreciation event.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Board backs apartment proposal

The Kalispell Planning Board on Tuesday supported Cascade Professional Park’s bid for a conditional use permit on behalf of Chris Sund to build 12 residential apartment units along Financial Drive.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Upward Tennis

Emma Berreth, 10, takes a swing at a tennis ball in Ben Williams Park in Lakeside during Upward Tennis.
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Service game

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Evergreen students qualify for free meals

The entire student body of Evergreen School District will able to access free breakfast and lunch for the 2014-15 school year under the federally funded Community Eligibility Provision.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Voices of note earn All Northwest honors

There will be joyful singing from several area students selected to perform in the Northwest Division of the American Choral Directors Association honors choirs.
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Home school tour

Kalispell Fire Capt. Kirk Pederson talks to youths after sliding down a fire pole in front of an eager group of home-school students and parents. The students were touring Kalispell Fire Department Station 61 on a field trip. Home schooling is on the rise in the Flathead Valley. There were …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO

International ambassadors in Whitefish: Exchange students share their stories

In a meeting room at the Whitefish Community Library, foreign exchange student Sonoko Maruyama of Tokyo, Japan, shouted spiritedly before slicing the air with a long wooden stick that mimics a sword.
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Smith Valley students get an education from local firefighters

National Fire Prevention Week is heating up the issue of safety in schools around the Flathead Valley.
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Contract awarded for new school kitchen

Meredith Construction of Kalispell was awarded the contract to building a central school kitchen near Kalispell Middle School Tuesday.
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Pair embark on Cambodia adventure

Adventure-seekers Kelly Hendrix and Mary Critchlow have begun a journey into Cambodia studying cultural and environmental issues.
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Class of 2013: That's the spirit! - Pumping up the crowd

Bigfork High School senior Dylan Carlson is getting a jump-start on her future by graduating at age 16 and pursuing her dream of joining a college-level cheerleading team.
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Class of 2013: That's the spirit! - 'Love the school you're from'

Jakeb Wilson has a penchant for drama, although he usually leaves it on the theater stage.
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Class of 2013: That's the spirit! - Prince of the Dawg Pound

From the Winter Carnival royal court to the cheering section at the basketball court, senior Shane Marcial has an abundance of school spirit.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Kalispell schools to self-fund insurance plan

To mitigate rate increases, the Kalispell Public Schools Board of Trustees has approved a self-funded structure for district employee health insurance.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Bus involved in accident

A bus that carried the Glacier High School boys track team to Butte on Saturday was involved in a minor accident.
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Grants help Evergreen program

Evergreen School District has kept its post-secondary planning program afloat this year with two grants.
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Students want to recycle grad gowns

The Whitefish High School Student Council wants to re-purpose for future graduates the graduation gowns of former students stashed away in closets and storage boxes.
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Whitefish teacher contract finally ratified

After 16 months of negotiations, the Whitefish Education Association has a contract for the current school year.
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Kalispell schools step up security

With the aftermath of the Dec. 14 elementary school massacre in Connecticut still fresh in their minds, trustees of the Kalispell School Board on Tuesday were briefed about added security measures at Kalispell schools.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

House contest features home builder, retired teacher

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Trinity's mainstay stepping down

After Ken Holste graduated from Concordia University in Seward, Neb., in 1969, he took his first teaching position at Trinity Lutheran School in Kalispell.
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Somers students learn fly tying, fishing in Glacier Park

A group of Somers Middle School eighth-graders leaned over fly-tie vises and wrapped thread around foam “insect” bodies to make Bunyan Bug ties at Glacier National Park’s Lake McDonald Lodge last week.
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Bigfork map wizards show their stuff

Flathead Valley has mountains of environmental data waiting for Bigfork High School students in Geographic Information Systems classes to collect, analyze and make sense of, often for the benefit of state and federal agencies.
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Woman wins coveted Springsteen tickets

When Wendy Compton-Ring bought two raffle tickets from her daughter, she didn’t expect to win a trip to see The Boss.
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Rail administrator touts commitment to Amtrak

The future is bright for expanding freight and passenger rail service, according to Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph Szabo.
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