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- Montana Department of Transportation is striping North Meridian Road in Kalispell today, from West Idaho Street to U.S. 93, weather permitting. Expect lane shifts and flaggers.

BOYS BASKETBALL: Bigfork fells Big Timber, reaches state championship game

Vikings to meet defending champ Choteau Saturday night at 8:30

BUTTE — Bigfork led wire-to-wire and earned a chance to win a second state championship in three years, toppling Big Timber 63-51 on Friday night at the Class B state boys basketball tournament at the Butte Civic Center.

Cardiac 'Cats capture crown

BUTTE - Guy Smith was a ways down the list when Columbia Falls head basketball coach Cary Finberg drew up the options for the final 7.5 seconds of Saturday's Class A state basketball game.

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• City of Kalispell Solid Waste Division will not be picking up 90-gallon containers today due to the Presidents Day holiday. Today's route will be picked up on Tuesday. Have containers out by 7 a.m. Call 758-7720.

BOYS BASKETBALL: Bigfork hangs on, reaches state tournament semifinals

Vikings will meet Big Timber Friday at 8 p.m.

BUTTE — Bigfork coughed up a halftime lead, but made just enough free throws down the stretch to survive a major scare in the first round of the Class B state boys basketball tournament at the Butte Civic Center, sneaking past Townsend, 55-53 on Thursday night.

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BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Kastella, Dogs top Cats; Columbia Falls girls move to 10-0

COLUMBIA FALLS — Whitefish survived a slow start to knock off Columbia Falls 56-44 on Thursday in Northwest A boys basketball play.

Saturday

Kalispell Senior Center, 403 Second Ave. W., has a 1 p.m. potluck. All are invited.

Births

Margaret Dion, daughter of Collin and Katie Dion of Kalispell, was born Dec. 1 at Kalispell Regional Medical Center.

Students study ecology of North Fork lakes

The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center in Glacier National Park hosted 45 students for the Glacier Lake Ecology BioBlitz on May 25 and 26.

Griz, Bobcats move up in polls

What a difference a day makes.

Northeastern, Hofstra meet in CAA finals

No. 6 seed Northeastern (17-15, 11-9) vs. No. 1 seed Hofstra (25-8, 16-4)

Final arguments given in homicide trial

Prosecutors gave jurors an impassioned plea Thursday morning to convict a Kalispell man of stabbing another man 25 times and leaving his body in Brown’s Creek in the Echo Lake area earlier this year. 

Robert M. 'Robin' Cox, 60

Robert M. "Robin" Cox passed away June 25, 2008, in Polebridge. He was born July 19, 1947, in Cody, Wyo. His parents were Robert M. Cox Sr., of Fries, Va., and Kathryn E. Cox (Hall) of Bismarck, N.D.

Ruth Botchek, 85

Ruth Botchek, 85, 'left this life to be with her Lord' on Saturday, April 14, 2007, at the Immanuel Lutheran Home in Kalispell. She was born Sept. 25, 1921, in Byron, Wyo., the daughter of George and Cecile (Messick) Rice.

John Lester Holyoak, 69

John Lester Holyoak, 69, passed away Friday, Jan. 12, 2007, at the Kalispell Regional Medical Center in Kalispell. He was born — one of six children — on April 25, 1937, in Lovell, Wyo. to Howard and Maude (Lester) Holyoak.

Alton O. 'Al' Dybwad, 78

Alton O. "Al" Dybwad, 78, of Fruitland, Idaho, went gently from this life to his heavenly home on Nov. 25, 2005.

Mamie Lillian Chabot Nelson Rogers, 101

Mamie passed away May 25, 2021, at the age of 101, at her home in Rollins.

Kalispell man charged after alleged attack with shovel

Prosecutors brought Kane Kelly Youngquist, 46, up on a single felony count of assault with a weapon following his March 25 arrest.