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‘The Nutcracker’ coming to Bigfork
The Northwest Ballet Company will perform “The Nutcracker” at Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts over Thanksgi…
Northshore Woods development back before commissioners
The Northshore Woods housing development is back on the Flathead County Commissioner’s agenda tomorrow following a settlement agreement that allowed the compan…
Water and Sewer facing lawsuit, capacity issues
Bigfork Water and Sewer District is facing a lawsuit from Snowflake Land Ventures, LLC alleging it didn’t honor a 2004 easement agreement requiring the district to annex the property and to provide water and sewer …
High school students onboard Flathead Maritime Archaeology Project
Fugro is partnering with the Bigfork Arts & Cultural Center to identify, locate, and document underwater cultural heritage sites in Flathead Lake, Montana, as …
REzMaDe artist reception comes to Bigfork Library
A VOICE (Art Vision & Outreach in Community Education) along with the Fine Art and Digital Design Technology Departments at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) are p…
Bigfork Playhouse Children's Theatre premieres ‘The Little Mermaid, Jr.’
The show will be performed at the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 20, 21, 27 and 28, with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on Sept. 29. Tickets are available online or at the box office one h…
Fundraiser for Bigfork Senior Center
Bigfork Community United Methodist Church will host an evening of supper, songs and local stories to benefit Bigfork Senior Center Saturday, Sept. 28 at 5 p.m.
New book features Montana’s ‘Stagecoach Mary’ Fields
She was instantly fascinating to me, as I think she is to a lot of people because we don’t know the stories of Black people in the American west. They just are…
HAPPENINGS: Stockman Bank grand opening, “Seeing Things” at BACC, Ethical Material Sourcing Discussion Panel
Ethical Material Sourcing Discussion Panel at the Bigfork Library, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Learn about the new library’s participation with Design for Freedom.
Bigfork gas station goes solar
Most of Bigfork went dark when a summer storm took out electricity throughout the Flathead a couple weeks ago. The exception was a little gas station and casin…
Suspected homicide victim found, Polson man arrested in connection
Lake County Sheriff’s Office recovered the body of 67-year-old Ed Loder in the Twin Lakes area southeast of St. Ignatius on Friday, Sept. 6 with the cooperation of homicide suspect James Lawrence of Polson.
K9 units used to apprehend shooter on Columbia Falls Stage Road
A Flathead County K9 unit was used to apprehend a suspect involved in a standoff early Wednesday, Sept. 4 after he allegedly shot at multiple people and the Tw…
Fruit gleaning for West Yellowstone bears upcoming
“Several of the Grizzly and Wolf Center's captive bears were wild bears from the Flathead and Swan Valley areas who were pulled from the wild due to repeated h…
FWP workshops show history of river regulation and how it could impact the future of recreation
Colin Maas, manager of the Smith River south of Great Falls, presented on the water body, one of the most highly regulated by FWP. “How we got from no restrictions to a fully restricted river didn’t happen overnigh…
HAPPENINGS: Niner Niner fundraisers for Bigfork Fire Department
Pickleball, tennis, golf, BBQ
BLOTTER: Cats left by renters
In Somers, a landlord reported their former tenants left four cats in the house.