Tuesday 11/17/2009
- 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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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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Saturday 11/14/2009

- 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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- 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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- 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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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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- Thanksgiving meal takes shape at new site
- Updated: 11/10/2009
A communitywide coalition of churches, charities and businesses
has come together to serve up 1,000 pounds of turkey and 500 pounds
of ham and 166 pumpkin pies to carry on the Thanksgiving dinner
started by Judy and Doug Wise in 1982.
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- C. Falls cleaning out entire city water system
- Updated: 11/10/2009
Drinking water in Columbia Falls showed signs of coliform
bacteria in three out of five samples tested last week.
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- Troy hunter shoots, kills charging grizzly
- Updated: 11/10/2009
A hunter from Troy who recently was confronted by a sow grizzly
bear with two older cubs in the Cabinet Mountains ended up shooting
the larger bear as it charged.
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Monday 11/09/2009

- Literary lions
- Updated: 8:24 pm 11/08/2009
Editors nurture journal with heart and courage
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- Planning board to tackle city airport
- Updated: 11/09/2009
A proposal to update and enlarge a planning area covering the
Kalispell City Airport and land around it will get its public
hearing at the Kalispell City-County Planning Board Tuesday
night.
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- C. Falls 2nd at speech meet
- Updated: 11/09/2009
Columbia Falls High School came in second to Missoula Loyola
Sacred Heart High School in its first speech and debate tournament
of the season Saturday.
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- Glacier gets second speech win
- Updated: 8:37 pm 11/08/2009
Glacier High School's speech and debate team won its second
straight tournament of the season in Butte on Saturday.
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- County posts outstanding warrants online
- Updated: 9:00 am 11/10/2009
With responsibility for more than 2,200 active warrants, the
Flathead County Sheriff's Office is trying a new way to track down
area residents wanted by the law.
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Sunday 11/08/2009

- Investigators descend on doctor
- Updated: 5:49 pm 11/11/2009
Dr. Annie Bukacek of Hosanna Health Care in Kalispell was
surprised when a 30- to 40-foot-long command-post vehicle pulled up
unannounced last week, along with a posse of state and federal
health-care fraud investigators.
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- Bypass bids possible Nov. 12
- Updated: 11/08/2009
The south half of the U.S. 93 Bypass did not go to bid on
Thursday, as initially hoped, but should be ready to bid on Nov.
12.
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- ‘Mission Pawsible’ an art and animal event
- Updated: 11/08/2009
Flathead Shelter Friends Inc., Flathead Spay & Neuter Task
Force, Humane Society of Northwest Montana and Whitefish Theatre
Co., have rallied together to host "Mission Pawsible," a valleywide
art and animal event planned for summer 2010.
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- Kids Camp changes young people’s lives
- Updated: 11/08/2009
Will Tedrow's experience at the Kids Camp sponsored by Flathead
CARE made a profound change in his life.
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