ARTICLES BY JESSICA STUGELMAYER
County commissioners approve Canal Road improvements
RONAN — While county commissioner Gale Decker was out on vacation, Lake County commissioners Bill Barron and Ann Brower approved a rural improvement district to improve part of Canal Road.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Activists target Ronan fur farm
RONAN — A local fur farm was the target of vandalism from animal right’s advocates earlier this month, when masked suspects trespassed on the property and destroyed breeding records.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Right from the starch
In 1982, two young seniors at Montana State University started dating. They had known of each other growing up in the Mission Valley, she in Bigfork and he on the family farm outside of Pablo, but it wasn’t until college that they officially met. The next year, Roger and Kathy …
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Hammer attack victim dies
POLSON — Desmond Alan Mackay was originally charged with attempted deliberate homicide and two counts of assault with a weapon following an attack with a hammer earlier this month. Now, in light of the victim’s death, Lake County prosecutors are seeking to amend the charges to include deliberate homicide.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Pablo standoff ends peacefully
PABLO — A standoff with a gunman ended peacefully last week in Pablo.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Mission Ronan child found safe and sound
RONAN — A story that could have been a tragedy, ended with happily with a collective sigh of relief. A 3-year-old child went missing in the Ronan area Sunday morning around 11:35 a.m., but was found shortly before 2 p.m. in good condition after he had been out walking with …
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
School moves forward with bond
Polson High School will receive a visible makeover this summer thanks to over $2 million raised from a bond levy passed last year.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Senate committee holds hearings on tribal education
Last week the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held the first of several hearings to examine the critical state of education in Indian Country.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
EDITORIAL: It makes snow sense
I remember watching a family cross-country ski down the street and I remember trudging a mile in the snow with my bag to get home. I remember businesses being closed and the appointment for my taxes being cancelled.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
EDITORIAL: Take heart
It was just like any ordinary day. He went in for a haircut and then Mike and a family friend were heading to the dump to drop off the last load of garbage and compost. Mike wasn’t feeling well. He was nauseous and sore. As he unloaded the bags from …
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Clinic partnership may be in question
POLSON — Amid confusion, officials from both St. Luke Community Healthcare and Kalispell Regional Medical Center assure Lake County residents that they are still working in tandem to realize a new primary care clinic in Polson.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Two hurt in Jette crash
POLSON — Emergency responders were dispatched for a two-vehicle crash around 9:29 a.m. Tuesday. When they arrived on scene, they were in for a shock.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
At the ready:
Imagine you are at home and your children are laughing in the living room while you are in the kitchen, washing dishes or cooking dinner, humming to yourself. Suddenly the laughing stops, you hear a scream and as you enter the room a member of your family in on the …
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Answering the call
ST. IGNATIUS — When people look back on Valerie Umphrey’s legacy, the record books will have it wrong. Recently awarded for more than 20 years of volunteer emergency medical service, Umphrey admitted it has been closer to 30 years.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
