Tuesday 11/17/2009

- Semitool sale: $364 million
- Updated: 5:11 pm 11/18/2009
Applied Materials Inc.’s plan to buy Kalispell-based Semitool
Inc. for $364 million was hailed Tuesday by both companies as a
collaborative move that will allow Applied to broaden its range of
products and take advantage of a global recovery in the
semiconductor industry.
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- Robbers take off with washer, dryer
- Updated: 11/17/2009
In what must have been a tough haul, Kalispell police got a
report Sunday of a washer and dryer being stolen from a yard at a
home on the 500 block of Ninth Street West.
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- Deer hunters having a rough time
- Updated: 11/17/2009
The Daily Inter Lake
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- New county road-design standards approved
- Updated: 11/17/2009
An upgrade of Flathead County’s minimum standards for road
design and construction will require all roads to be designed by a
professional engineer licensed to do business in Montana.
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- Three face felony charges in shootings
- Updated: 11/17/2009
Kalispell Police have leveled felony charges against two
teenagers and a 22-year-old man allegedly involved in drive-by
shootings with Airsoft guns early Sunday morning in
Kalispell.
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- Bob Keenan picked for Planning Board
- Updated: 11/17/2009
Bigfork businessman and former Republican state Sen. Bob Keenan
was appointed to the Flathead County Planning Board on Monday as
the county commissioners filled a slate of openings on various
committees and boards.
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- Kalispell zoning-law changes unveiled Thursday
- Updated: 11/17/2009
The public can get a look at changes proposed to Kalispell’s
zoning ordinance by attending a Nov. 19 open house.
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- Montana shuts down wolf hunt
- Updated: 5:18 pm 11/18/2009
With seven wolves harvested over the weekend in Northwest
Montana and three in Southwest Montana, the state’s wolf-hunting
season officially closed Monday night.
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Monday 11/16/2009
- Wolf hunt shuts down
- Updated: 5:18 pm 11/18/2009
With seven wolves harvested over the weekend in Northwest
Montana and three in Southwest Montana, the statewide wolf season
officially will close Monday night.
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- County road plan ready for prime time
- Updated: 9:01 pm 11/15/2009
A makeover of the busy intersection of U.S. 2 and Reserve Drive
is among top-priority road projects outlined in Flathead County’s
draft transportation plan.
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- C. Falls speech wins in Libby
- Updated: 11/16/2009
Columbia Falls High School came out on top at the Libby
Invitational speech and debate tournament Saturday.
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- Flathead speech and debate team gets first victory
- Updated: 11/16/2009
Flathead High School’s speech and debate team got its first win
of the season Saturday at the Electric City Invitational in Great
Falls.
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- Kalispell considers consultants for airport
- Updated: 11/16/2009
Kalispell City Council will consider hiring Stelling Engineers,
Inc., of Great Falls, as consulting engineers for the Kalispell
City Airport redevelopment project.
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- ‘No big surprises’ in Whitefish River cleanup
- Updated: 11/16/2009
Cleanup of petroleum-contaminated sediment in the Whitefish
River is on schedule and so far has yielded “no big surprises,” a
federal spokesman said.
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- Teen flourishes with hectic schedule
- Updated: 11/16/2009
There aren’t enough hours in Jessie Mazur’s day.
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- He fought the law — guess who won?
- Updated: 11/16/2009
Flathead County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man on suspicion
of felony assault and being an accessory to theft at an Evergreen
discount box store Sunday afternoon. His girlfriend allegedly
shoplifted some items and was apprehended by store security, then
the man reportedly assaulted the officer.
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Sunday 11/15/2009

- Vanishing act
- Updated: 11/15/2009
Recent spawning surveys indicate most of Glacier National Park’s
west-side bull trout populations are teetering toward extinction,
but an aggressive netting project in one lake was successful in
suppressing invading lake trout.
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- Kalispell conference focuses on autism
- Updated: 11/15/2009
Local teachers and others who work with children with autism are
invited to attend a conference on autism spectrum disorders Tuesday
and Wednesday at the Red Lion Hotel Kalispell.
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- County offers three more flu-shot clinics
- Updated: 11/15/2009
The Flathead City-County Health Department has scheduled three
free H1N1 (swine) flu vaccination clinics on Wednesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
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- College president honored with CEO award
- Updated: 11/15/2009
Flathead Valley Community College President Jane Karas was
honored with the 2009 Association of Community College Trustees
Chief Executive Officer Award for the Mountain Region.
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- Law Roundup
- Updated: 11/15/2009
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- To hell and back
- Updated: 2:15 pm 11/16/2009
Lester Smith, 89, of Kalispell, has a vial of coarse black
volcanic sand that he picked up from Iwo Jima in 1995 at a reunion
50 years after landing on the island as a Marine in World War
II.
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Saturday 11/14/2009
- Law Roundup
- Updated: 11/14/2009
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- Bartender saves Bigfork restaurant
- Updated: 11/14/2009
Caroline Guizol got a message at 9:20 p.m. Nov. 3 that no one
wants to hear: La Provence, the Bigfork restaurant she owns with
her husband, Marc, was on fire.
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- Mont. 35 can’t be closed to truckers
- Updated: 11/14/2009
Further large-truck restrictions on Montana 35 between Bigfork
and Polson are unlikely, but officials are taking steps to make the
road safer, Montana Department of Transportation Director Jim Lynch
said Thursday night.
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- Hunters close in on wolf quota
- Updated: 11/14/2009
The weekend pulse of hunters hitting the woods could bring the
Montana wolf season very close to a quota-driven closure.
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- First-time speakers learn the ropes
- Updated: 11/14/2009
Kaitlin Barnes’ hands were freezing.
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- Youth take stand against genocide
- Updated: 11/14/2009
Living in a somewhat isolated corner of Northwest Montana
doesn’t have to mean isolation from the rest of the world. Even in
a conflict half a world away, local people can make a
difference.
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Friday 11/13/2009
- Protesters still required to pay taxes
- Updated: 11/13/2009
Property owners who have reviews and appeals still pending with
the state Department of Revenue are required to pay their taxes
under protest by the Nov. 30 deadline.
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- Plum Creek rewarded for saving energy
- Updated: 11/13/2009
Flathead Electric Cooperative presented a check for more than
$337,000 to Plum Creek Thursday for the lumber company’s efforts at
reducing energy use and its carbon footprint.
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- Seminar takes look at energy, jobs
- Updated: 11/13/2009
The public is encouraged to attend the next session in a
community energy dialogue series from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
19.
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- Law Roundup
- Updated: 11/13/2009
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- Canine college
- Updated: 8:32 am 11/13/2009
Dog trainer Ellie Bell works with her dog Zephyr while teaching
an American Kennel Association Canine Good Citizenship course. The
class prepares dogs and their owners for a test as part of the
association’s certification program, with emphasis on
responsibility and good manners. For an audio slide show, go to
www.dailyinterlake.com
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- Bypass bids below initial estimates
- Updated: 5:21 pm 11/18/2009
Ames Construction out of Utah submitted the lowest apparent bid
Thursday for the first segment of the south half of Kalispell’s
U.S. 93 Bypass, coming in $3.6 million below the engineer’s
estimate.
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Thursday 11/12/2009
- City airport action not imminent
- Updated: 11/12/2009
Even though opponents — and supporters, for the first time in
force — were just as vocal as ever, fears of overbearing growth at
Kalispell City Airport got a breather Tuesday night.
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- H1N1 vaccine offered today, Friday
- Updated: 11/12/2009
The Flathead City-County Health Department has scheduled clinics
today and Friday to administer free H1N1 vaccinations.
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- Board backs subdivision with caution to council
- Updated: 11/12/2009
The Kalispell Planning Board likes plans for a new residential
development enough that it recommends the City Council approve the
first steps for Trumbull Creek Crossing Phase 2.
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- Habitat project starts with public comment session
- Updated: 11/12/2009
Habitat for Humanity of Flathead Valley wants to pick the brains
of people in Columbia Falls.
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- Law Roundup
- Updated: 11/12/2009
Flathead County sheriff
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- School board won’t seek another levy soon
- Updated: 10:52 am 11/12/2009
When taxpayers voted down a $4.1 million levy in Kalispell
Public Schools’ high school district last week, district officials
were stunned.
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- Veterans Day
- Updated: 10:03 pm 11/12/2009
Joe Coulter high-fives his son Joseph Coulter Jr., 2, during
Bigfork High School’s Veterans Recognition Assembly on Wednesday
morning.
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Wednesday 11/11/2009
- Cayuse says yes to gym
- Updated: 5:15 pm 11/18/2009
Cayuse Prairie School is getting a new gym.
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- Slain soldier has ties to C. Falls
- Updated: 11/11/2009
Pfc. Aaron Nemelka, one of the 13 people killed in last week’s
massacre at Fort Hood, had strong ties to the Columbia Falls area
where several of his relatives still reside.
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- Meeting to discuss Montana 35 issues
- Updated: 11/11/2009
State transportation officials are holding an informational
meeting Thursday evening to discuss safety issues regarding
large-truck traffic on Montana 35 and U.S. 93.
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- Woman sentenced in Kalispell bank fraud case
- Updated: 11/11/2009
A Kalispell woman has been sentenced to 27 months in federal
prison following her conviction for embezzling more than $227,000
while the bookkeeper for two Kalispell companies.
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- Restoration work under way after Eureka fire
- Updated: 11/11/2009
A county building is showing new signs of life after a fire in
Eureka two weeks ago.
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- State may change bull trout closures
- Updated: 11/11/2009
The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission this week will
consider extending several stream-mouth fishing closures to protect
vulnerable bull trout in Northwest Montana.
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- County approves tax break for Total Label USA
- Updated: 11/11/2009
For the third time, Total Label USA has won county approval for
a 10-year phased tax incentive at its production plant northwest of
Whitefish.
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- Law Roundup
- Updated: 11/11/2009
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Tuesday 11/10/2009
- Deer total still down; elk harvest improves
- Updated: 11/10/2009
The deer harvest in Northwest Montana is now lagging behind last
year's totals at most Region One check stations.
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