Mizutani’s next concert plays on patriotic theme

Master violinist Wai Mizutani and Impact continue The Lord of the String concert series with Opus 6 “Echoes of Americana” Saturday, June 25.

Movie Night at the Museum presents silent comedy

The Northwest Montana History Museum’s next Movie Night at the Museum will begin at 7 p.m. Monday, June 27, with the classic 1923 silent comedy “Safety Last!”

KALICO invites artists to one-day painting challenge

KALICO Art Center and the Kalispell Downtown Association a new art challenge for the Flathead Valley: The Clarence Rundell Challenge.

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Artists and Craftsmen of the Flathead host Summer Art Show

Yellowstone park reopens after changes wrought by flood

WAPITI, Wyo. (AP) — Several thousand cars, trucks and recreational vehicles were backed up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopened Wednesday morning following record floods that reshaped the park's rivers and canyons, wiped out numerous roads and left some areas famous for their wildlife viewing inaccessible, possibly for months to come.

KMS Science Club earns state award for studying microplastics in Foys Lake

The club, made up of sixth- through eighth-graders, was a winner in the Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s Saving Money and Resources Today (SMART) Schools Challenge and was awarded $2,000.

Dale R. Pierce, 79

Dale R. Pierce left us all on Jan. 6, 2022. He passed away at Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell.

Larry Ralph Whitney, 85

Larry Ralph Whitney, born Aug. 30, 1936, to Ralph and Alice (Mock) Whitney of Ferndale, Montana, died Jan. 8, 2022, at Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell, not far from the now old Kalispell Hospital, where he was born.

Annett Audrey (Windon) Abell, 90

Annett Audrey (Windon) Abell was born at home on the family farm to Jesse C. and Audrey (Erb) Windon on the first day of spring, March 20, 1932, near Maple Falls, Washington.

Free summer meals offered to children and teens

Free meals are available to children 18 and under in Flathead County. Meals will be served by sponsoring school districts in locations in Evergreen, Columbia Falls, Kalispell and Whitefish.

Legals for June, 21 2022

Dirk Allan Erekson

Dirk Allan Erekson of Columbia Falls lost his battle with cancer and died peacefully at his home Wednesday, June 6, 2022.

Dale R. Pierce, 79

Dale R. Pierce left us all on Jan. 6, 2022. He passed away at Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell.

Margery R. Strickland Gress, 80

Margery R. Strickland Gress was born to Archie and Mariam Strickland on Jan. 12, 1942.

Richard ‘Max’ Bullock, 29

When asked how he would want to be celebrated, Lt. TJ Hall, Max’s Wingman, said, “Fast, Loud and Awesome!”

Lemonade Day teaches young entrepreneurs

Lemonade Day teaches young entrepreneurs

Can prison-farmed pheasants save hunting?

In the spring of 2021, the Montana Legislature passed a bill that authorized FWP to use $1 million worth of state and federal revenue for a pheasant-stocking program that could ultimately release up to 50,000 pen-reared pheasants onto “suitable and eligible state-owned lands” every fall.

Inge Salmonsen, 96

Inge Salmonsen passed away Nov. 25, 2021.

Legion: A Lakers 2-2 at Rein Memorial

BOZEMAN — Four different Helena players had two hits and two or more RBIs, and the Reps ate up a 5-0 deficit to beat the Kalispell A Lakers 12-7 Saturday at the Howard Rein Legion tournament.

Legals for June, 19 2022