Emission Range News Today

Mission Range Event Center was on the agenda at the Ronan City Council meeting on Wednesday, May 8.

Over 50 people gathered at the tribal council chambers on April 5 for the second quarterly meeting of the year. Sam Buffalo opened the meeting with a prayer followed by

Kim Aipperspach and Mike Bartel, representing Ronan Pioneer Days, returned to Ronan City Council March 27 to continue a discussion of the Mission Range Event Center land.

The Rev. Jon Umbdenstock is not your mom’s Methodist minister. Clad in a colorful, embroidered western shirt, bolo tie and blue jeans, he looks more like a guitar-slinging mountain-biking, snowboarding millennial (which he is), than a pastor of two churches. In fact, he calls himself the Misfit Minister.

Members of Pioneer Days Company from Ronan met with Lake County Commissioners Gale Decker and Bill Barron Aug. 28 to discuss the future of the Mission Range Event Complex (MREC).

The dry lightning that strode across western Montana Saturday night was bad enough, starting a line of fires from north of Dixon to Niarada. But when winds, reportedly gusting up to 40 mph, kicked up Sunday afternoon, fires that seemed manageable suddenly weren’t.

Seeley Lake is located along Highway 83, one of Montana's most picturesque routes, and is bordered by the Mission and Swan Mountain Ranges.

For all of his life, Alan “Chauncey” Beaverhead stood at the heart of tribal culture and tribal life on the Flathead Reservation. Raised with his brother Gene by their great-grandparents, Pete and Josephine Beaverhead, they were the most recent children to be raised to complete fluency in the Salish language. They were steeped in the culture and community of the Ql̓ispé (upper Kalispel or Pend d’Oreille) people who for thousands of years have been the guardians and caretak...