Feb. 10—Flathead and Glacier high schools are moving forward with charter school rollouts after gaining approval from the Montana Board of Public Education in January. The two high schools will begin gauging student interest as registration for the 2024-25 school year gets underway this week and next week. Flathead Assistant Principal Andrew Stiger and Glacier […]
Jan. 28—Melanie Wyckoff loves to spend time in toy stores. Even when her children are ready to leave, she wants to stay. So when opening a children’s boutique she put a focus on offering items that speak to her — toys she selects for her grandchildren and clothes that her daughter wears, but also decorative […]
Jan. 21—A sign above Montana History teacher Kris Schreiner’s classroom alerts Kalispell Middle School eighth graders that they are entering Alder Gulch to mine for gold and garnets. Alder Gulch, was the site of the “richest placer gold strike in the Rocky Mountains with an estimated total value of 100 million dollars throughout the 18th […]
Jan. 12—The man at the center of a Kalispell standoff involving the regional SWAT team in September received a suspended sentence in Flathead County District Court on Jan. 3. Judge Amy Eddy handed down a five-year suspended sentence with the state Department of Corrections to Trevor Allen Berggren on one count of felony criminal endangerment. […]
Jan. 11—Officials identified Thursday the dead body discovered inside a Kalispell building earlier this week as that of 36-year-old Jennifer Pervais. Security personnel at the building, located near 18th Street East and Third Avenue East, found Pervais’ body and alerted the Kalispell Police Department about 2:30 p.m., Jan. 9, officials said. Deeming it a suspicious […]
Jan. 1—When Michelle and Jefferson Oxford first met in 1979, it was like a tiger meeting a maniac. Michelle was dressed as a tiger the first time they met — it was her high school mascot in Nebraska. Jefferson’s central Idaho high school’s mascot was known as the maniac. It wasn’t for another two and […]