Native American Heritage Month – A constitutional promise

November is National American Indian Heritage Month. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed a Congressional Joint Resolution establishing this event and called upon governments, interested groups, organizations, and the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

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Students get moving with Evergreen Fitness program

What started out as a weight training program for seventh- and eighth-grade student-athletes, soon expanded to all students interested in staying fit over summer break, starting in the second grade.

Evergreen Rotary Club looks toward 20th anniversary in 2023

The Evergreen Rotary Club was formed in 2003, when founding members were looking at certain projects in the community that they believed they could help fund.

Day care programs offer child care to school staff

A state-licensed day care program has opened at Kalispell Public Schools as part of a new cooperative program to serve children of district employees.

POWDR already in charge of Holland Lake Lodge, lawyers allege

POWDR, a Utah company identified as future owner of Holland Lake Lodge, is already in control of the Swan Valley resort, allege a couple of lawyers who are opponents of a lodge expansion proposal in a memo and review of public records.

Coroner: Idaho students were stabbed to death in their beds

Four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a rental house Sunday were stabbed to death in their beds and likely were asleep, a county coroner told a cable news channel.

Legals for November, 18 2022

Suspect in box cutter attack pleads guilty

Brockton Ferguson, 36, made the acknowledgment after pleading guilty to felony aggravated assault for the April 5 attack in Kalispell.

Knudsen, Tester simultaneously publicize efforts to curb fentanyl abuse

As Attorney General Austin Knudsen unveiled Thursday his latest effort to prevent fentanyl abuse in Montana, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester highlighted efforts in the Senate to make it easier to detect the opioid along the southern border.

West Glacier Vision Plan goes before county commissioners

Commissioners will consider a resolution of intent to adopt the plan. The public comment portion meeting begins at 8:45 a.m.

Griz, Cats set for 121st ‘Brawl’

The players for the Montana Grizzlies and Montana State Bobcats would like to treat the 121st “Brawl” as any other game, and the coaches feel the same. But you have to be there.

Idaho police: No suspect in slaying of 4 college students

Police in the college town of Moscow said Wednesday they have not identified a suspect or found a weapon in the weekend slayings of four University of Idaho students in a rental house near campus.

Met Opera Live in HD airs ‘Medea’ in Whitefish

Whitefish Theatre Company and the Whitefish Performing Arts Center are co-presenting the second live on-screen performance of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD 2022-2023 season.

WTC brings gripping ‘Church & State’ to the stage

The Whitefish Theatre Co. presents its second Black Curtain theater production of the 2022-2023 season with “Church & State” by Jason Odell Williams. Called “surprisingly subtle and sophisticated,” “Church & State” has performances at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19 and 20 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish.

Arts and Entertainment news

‘Come as you are’ to Alliance’s Drag Show

NW Ballet Co. brings back beloved ‘Nutcracker’

This Thanksgiving weekend the Northwest Ballet Company will present its 34th production of the classic “Nutcracker” at the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts.

Reproductive rights groups say the rejection of LR-131 is a bellwether for future abortion legislation in Montana.

When Dr. Timothy Mitchell, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Missoula, read the bill behind Montana’s LR-131, the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, he said, he was motivated for the first time in his medical career to get involved in a political campaign about reproductive health.

Legals for November, 17 2022

McConnell reelected Senate GOP leader: 'Not going anywhere'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Mitch McConnell was reelected as Republican leader Wednesday, quashing a challenge from Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the Senate GOP campaign chief criticized after a disappointing performance in the midterm elections that kept Senate control with Democrats.