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Law roundup: Feisty feline accused of beatings
A woman called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office alleging their neighbor’s outdoor cat comes onto her property and “beats her cat.” “Rodeo guys” were reportedly parking on a woman’s Bigfork property, ignoring her when she asked them not to and the “no trespassing” signs posted around the property. She wanted to know how to get the vehicles towed. A man in Columbia Falls allegedly smashed the back window of a Chevy Impala, leaving blood and skin behind. Deputies collected statements and swabs. Two drunk women allegedly attacked a man inside a Kalispell residence. One of the women reportedly bit and scratched him, and...
Nonprofits selected for Great Fish Community Challenge
Eighty Flathead Valley nonprofit organizations will participate in the 10th annual Great Fish Community Challenge hosted by Whitefish Community Foundation Aug. 8 to Sept. 13. The Great Fish Community Challenge is a charitable giving campaign in which donors can choose to give to multiple nonprofit organizations with a single transaction. At the campaign's end, Whitefish Community Foundation will award a percentage match on the first $25,000 raised by each participating organization. The match is made possible by Whitefish Community Foundation’s Circle of Giving donors and donors who designate their gift to the Great Fish Match Fund. In honor of the 10th anniversary...
Grandstand rebuild a necessary investment
The Northwest Montana Fair’s main events are officially on. Get ready for some oldies but goodies with Rock & Roll Hall of Famers The Beach Boys, chart-topping country hits with LOCASH and Niko Moon, followed by four nights of intense rodeo action, all taking place at the fairground’s grandstand arena Aug. 13-18. Fair organizers were anxiously awaiting the results of an analysis on the structural integrity of the grandstands prior to announcing these headline events last week. Thankfully, an engineering firm has deemed the grandstands to be safe and adequate to accommodate the hordes of fairgoers this summer. This is excellent...
Legals for July, 9 2024
NO. 30485 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on November 14, 2024, at 11:00 AM at the East door of the Flathead County Justice Center, 920 South Main Street, Kalispell, MT 59901, the following described real property situated in Flathead County, State of Montana: THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 30 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., FLATHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA. EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PORTION DEED TO THE STATE OF MONTANA IN BARGAIN AND SALE DEED RECORDED DECEMBER 12, 1979 AS DOC. NO. 19039, RECORDS OF FLATHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA. ALSO EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE FOLLOWING...
Newly Designed Bigfork Library Set to Open Next Month
The Bigfork branch of the Flathead County Library, currently housed within the Bigfork Art and Cultural Center (BACC), will close on July 6 as staff move into the new building on Bridge Street, set to open to the public in early August. Six years after the ImagineIf Library Foundation, the...
Legals for July, 8 2024
NO. 30479 Eli J. Patten Lindy M. Lauder Crowley Fleck PLLP 305 S. 4th Street E., Suite 100 P. O. Box 7099 Missoula, MT 59807-7099 Telephone: (406) 523-3600 Attorneys for MMG Investments I, LLC MONTANA ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, FLATHEAD COUNTY MMG INVESTMENTS I, LLC, Plaintiff, vs. THOMAS PRINTING, INC., a Montana corporation; CHAD A. THOMAS; MARJEAN E. THOMAS; ROOSEVELT PAPER COMPANY; WCP SOLUTIONS; VERITIV OPERATING COMPANY; FOX CAPITAL GROUP, Defendants. Cause No. DV-15-2022-0001350-OC District Judge: Judge Amy Eddy NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY TO BE SOLD, in one single Sheriff’s Sale on the 17th day of July 2024, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., at the location of the FRONT ENTRANCE OF 38...
Survey shows a drop in the area’s homeless population, but shelter leaders aren’t convinced
The region’s homeless population declined over the past year, according to a survey conducted over the winter months, but nonprofit leaders say they have seen no reduction in demand for services.The annual Point-in-Time survey is a count led by the federal Department for Housing and Urban Development and is required for its Continuum of Care program, which addresses homelessness by providing funding for efforts by nonprofit providers and state and local governments. All of Montana’s participating outreach programs fall under the same Continuum of Care program, and each area is responsible for administering the survey every winter. In Northwest Montana, the...
North Carolina fugitive drowns in Flathead River after on-foot police chase through forest
KALISPELL, Mont. - A fugitive on the run from North Carolina was discovered Friday at a campground in the North Fork area by Flathead County Sheriff Deputies. He ran away from law enforcement, waded into the Flathead River and floated downstream. His dead body was found submerged in the water north of the Blankenship Bridge.
Divers Recover Body of Drowning Victim in Flathead Lake
Divers on July 3 recovered the body of a 36-year-old Missoula man missing since last Friday when he became separated from his boat near the “Narrows” of Flathead Lake, a bottleneck feature separating Polson Bay to the south from the lake’s northern reaches. The victim, Chad Hansen,...
Accused sex offender drowns in Flathead's North Fork
A North Carolina man with several warrants for his arrest, including child sexual battery, apparently drowned in the North Fork Flathead River recently after fleeing from law enforcement.According to a press release from Flathead County Sheriff Brian Heino, on June 20, the office received a tip about the possible location of 35-year-old Steven Jeffrey O’Shields of Franklin, North Carolina, in the Kalispell/Evergreen areas. O’Shields had extraditable felony warrants for his arrest regarding various crimes, including burglary, theft of services, obstruction of law enforcement and sexual battery against a child, all out of North Carolina. He was also reported as a non-compliant...
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