22 – Consecutive victories for boys soccer team dating back to last season 3 – Number of boys players ranking in top six in state for total points 24 – Goals in seven games by Preston Taylor, Jonas Magstadt and Matt Grindrod 280 – Rushing yards by football team in first win of the year […]

16 – Touchdowns thrown by junior quarterback Brock Osweiler this year 2 – Interceptions thrown by Osweiler 23 – School record for touchdown passes in a season 5 – Regular season games left for Osweiler to break record 110 – Total points scored by Glacier volleyball team in loss to Flathead 106 – Total points […]

149 – Golfer Larry Iverson III’s two-round score in first loss of season 77 – Iverson’s first-round score, tied for his highest of the season 3rd – Iverson’s place in Butte-Anaconda Invitational 2nd – Wolfpack’s team finish at tournament out of 16 teams 10 – Blocks by Emilee Hashley in volleyball match against rival Flathead […]

11 – Goals scored by girls soccer team in 11-0 victory over Bonner’s Ferry 5 – Goals scored by Kassie Hebert against Bonner’s Ferry 18 – Goals scored through nine games by Hebert this season to lead state 6 – Second-highest individual goal total behind Hebert in Northwest A 258 – Football team’s rushing yards […]

6’3” – Height of Bigfork’s senior middle hitter Alyssa Fierro 17 – Kills by Fierro in victory over Ronan 2 – Consecutive conference victories for the Valkryries after starting out 0-2 6 – Goals scored by Roland Benedict, second-best non-Whitefish total in Northwest A 29 – Length in yards of field goal kicked by Benedict, […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Wednesday included the following: 10:17 a.m. Two not-so-nice pit bulls in the Bierney Creek trailer park habitually meet up with a neighbor pit bull and run amok throughout the park. They get into trash and growl at residents when they try to leave their homes. The […]

Good morning and Happy World Tourism Day. Sri Lanka is lucky enough to be the host country for World Tourism Day this year. Hey, it’s not like hosting the Olympics but it’s something, right? It’s a fairly slow news day statewide, but the Beacon is chock full of stories. Whitefish contributor Becky Lomax writes about […]

When residents of Whitefish wired Ed Schenck and George Prentice and asked them to come to town and help build a ski resort, it was a long shot at best. George and Ed put up $20,000 of their own money, and the Chamber of Commerce got pledges from members for another $40,000. This was a […]

Signs of Kalispell being a two-school town are beginning to show. Blue and green Wolfpack T-shirts. Two consecutive weeks of homecoming-like celebrations. And, if you were downtown about a week ago, a hairy, black wolf posing for pictures and waving at cars. “When we went from soccer to volleyball I stayed in costume and was […]

KALISPELL (AP) – A woman who was scheduled to enter a no contest plea in the death of a 3-year-old boy who drowned in her septic tank did not show up for court, apparently because of a paperwork mix up. Tommie Cates was scheduled to appear in Justice Court Wednesday to enter a no contest […]

BILLINGS (AP) – The state of Montana has spent more than $1 million defending a lawsuit brought by a former Billings man, currently of Kalispell, who spent 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. No trial date has been set in the three-year-old suit brought by Jim Bromgard. Two settlement conferences […]

WHITEFISH – Chemistry students at Whitefish high school are moving chemistry off the periodic table and into their own homes and neighborhoods. Tony Ward, a University of Montana research assistant professor, joined the class Thursday afternoon to introduce UM’s Air Toxics Under the Big Sky, a five-year program that works with high schools in western […]

Ever try to keep the deer out of your yard, garden or especially, your raspberry patch? Ever notice that they seem to munch on the most expensive plants in your yard or garden? They never seem to eat the dandelions. My forestry friends tell me spraying pig blood on the plants will keep the deer […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Tuesday included the following: 8:11 a.m. A vandal tore off the windshield wipers and bumper of a car. 8:41 a.m. Golf clubs were reported stolen out of a vehicle on Arbour Drive. 8:52 a.m. A woman called the Sheriff’s Department after she heard someone screaming “let […]

Good morning and Happy National Women’s Health and Fitness Day. The new Beacons are on the stands. Topping our issue this week is a feature about an extraordinary new urban loft housing development in downtown Kalispell. The apartments are a little slice of the big city in the Flathead – and I mean that in […]