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WEB UPDATE: Fireworks spark .5-acre blaze at BHS

Bigfork Eagle

The Bigfork Volunteer Fire Department responded to a .5-acre fire in the field just above Commerce Street below the Bigfork High School football field around noon on Friday. The cause -- still sitting at the scene -- were fireworks.

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MIDWEEK UPDATE Oshanee Cullooyah Kenmille dies at 93

Courtesy of CKST

Oshanee Cullooyah Kenmille was an artist, a tribal elder, and teacher who taught tanning at Salish Kootenai college for 28 years.

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Coal mine threat to Glacier draws U.N.

A United Nations delegation will travel to Glacier National Park and the North Fork to see for itself the threats of mining and coal bed methane development could have on the Park.

Meeting in Spain last week the 21-member United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee voted unanimously to send a mission to Waterton-Glacier and the Canadian Flathead.

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Ennis purchases Bay Shore Motel

The battle for the Bay Shore Motel in downtown Lakeside came to an end last Monday morning, when By The Lake Realty finalized a deal with Bruce Ennis, who last year purchased the neighboring Mattson property with the intention of converting the land into a county park.

Real estate agent Martin Tetachuck was busy filling out paperwork for the property on Monday afternoon, after Ennis sealed the deal at 11 that morning, purchasing the motel and property for a mere $800,000.

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Signs point to Whitefish River clean-up

Whitefish Pilot

Whitefish mayor Mike Jenson brought the subject up during the city council's June 1 meeting — the Environmental Protection Agency might make a decision on cleaning up the Whitefish River "within a month," he said, based on information from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.

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