Legals for June, 23 2022

History museum opens new exhibit about Kalispell

On New Year’s Day 1892, 3,500 people came down to the freshly-laid railroad tracks in the center of Kalispell to celebrate the completion of the Great Northern line to St. Paul.

Entertainment briefs

Artists and Craftsmen of the Flathead host Summer Art Show

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.

Kalispell man allegedly stole SUV from repair shop lot

A Kalispell man faces a felony theft charge after authorities caught him on June 7 in a vehicle stolen from a North Meridian Road repair shop.

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.

Texas top cop: Uvalde police response an 'abject failure'

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, and they never checked a classroom door to see if it was locked, the Texas public safety chief testified Tuesday, pronouncing the law enforcement response an "abject failure."

Legals for June, 21 2022

Prosecutors: Man threatened to kill bar staff, sheriff’s deputies

A man awaiting sentencing on a felony driving under the influence charge is back behind bars after allegedly threatening to kill the employees of a local bar and later sheriff’s deputies.

PaddleHeads' late rally dooms Riders

The Glacier Range Riders led the Missoula PaddleHeads after an Austin McNicholas homer at the bottom of the fourth inning, but the visitors battled back to win 5-3 in Pioneer League baseball Sunday at Flathead Field.

Gianforte tours Flathead flooding; more evacuation notices issued

Gov. Greg Gianforte pledged Monday to back local officials and emergency responders with whatever resources they need as another bout of heavy rain swelled area waterways and prompted more evacuations.

Births

Whitlee Kaye Hill, daughter of Gary Hill and Rebecca Walhus of Whitefish, was born on May 14, 2022, at Logan Health Medical Center.

Whitefish Council considers garbage rate increase for bear-resistant containers

Whitefish City Council on Monday will consider increasing the garbage collection rate by about $6.50 per month for residences as a result of requiring the use of bear-resistant trash containers.

Legals for June, 20 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.

Flathead Business Newsmakers

Happenings at Flathead businesses

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.

Art exhibit returns Winold Reiss portraits to the Blackfeet Reservation

Through a collaboration between the Blackfeet Nation, Museum of the Plains Indian, the BNSF Foundation and the Glacier National Park Conservancy, an exhibit of nine of Reiss’ original pastel portraits entitled “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” will be on display in Browning through Oct. 29.

Fallout from historic flooding already devastating tourism in park’s gateway communities

The phone for Park Hotel Yellowstone in Gardiner has been ringing around the clock with guests canceling summer reservations after historic flooding led to the closure of Yellowstone National Park this week.