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EVERGREEN MAN SENTENCED Nelson pleaded guilty to assault with
FOR NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE
a weapon for using a golf club during the
The Evergreen man who admitted to incident, and as part of a plea deal, an ag-
killing a man by pushing him down the gravated assault charge was dropped.
stairs during a drunken ight was sen- Horn has since pleaded guilty to mis-
with
NEW tenced to 15 years in the Department of demeanor assault, reduced from aggra-

Corrections, with 10 of those years sus- vated assault since prosecutors have de-
pended.
termined Horn shoved the victim in an
David Eugene Day, 55, was sentenced attempt to get him out of the way of the
LIGHTING
for negligent homicide on Jan. 23 in golf club but didn’t try to stop the others
Flathead County District Court. Nei- from attacking the victim.
ther Day’s attorney nor the prosecution
called any witnesses in the brief hearing, COLUMBIA FALLS SCHOOL
held in front of Judge Ted O. Lympus.
BOARD TO INTERVIEW
from
Last October, Day admitted to slap- SUPERINTENDENT FINALISTS
ping Gerald Payne, 55, during a drunk- The three inalists for the school
en ight last June, causing Payne to fall superintendent position in Columbia
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down a set of stairs at Day’s Evergreen Falls were interviewed earlier this week
apartment.
and a decision could occur by later this
MASTERPIECEPayne eventually died from head and week.
neck injuries sustained in the fall.
Twelve people applied for the posi-

The men had been drinking all day tion and the school board whittled the
on June 1, Day said on the stand, and by list to Kim Harding, superintendent in
about 4 p.m. or 4:30 p.m., they started Sheridan, Craig Barringer, superinten-
ighting, and ended up on the second- dent in Conrad and Steven Bradshaw,
loor apartment’s landing.
superintendent in Sitka, Alaska.
“He wanted to come back in and I Michael Nicosia is retiring in June
backslapped him and said, ‘No, you’ve after 20 years. The Columbia Falls po-
got to leave,’” Day said during the Octo- sition involves both the high school and

ber hearing. “He fell down the stairs.”
elementary school districts.
At his sentencing hearing, prosecu- Last week Cynthia Clary announced
tor Travis Ahner said Day has “obvious that she would be stepping down as su-
alcohol problems,” and had a blood-al- perintendent in the Bigfork School Dis-
cohol content of .337 the day of the inci- trict after four years.
dent. Ahner said it was evident the death The Kalispell School District is also
was accidental.
undergoing a change in leadership. Mark
He recommended that Lympus sen- Flatau was selected as the next superin-

tence Day to 15 years in the Department tendent to replace Darlene Schottle in
of Corrections, with 10 suspended. Day’s June.
attorney, Brent Getty, asked for a 10-
year sentence with ive years suspended, RONAN POLICE CHIEF FIRED
due to Day’s age.
AFTER COMPLAINTS
Lympus sided with the prosecution Ronan’s City Council relieved the
when sentencing, and said he would rec- police chief of his duties after receiving

ommend that Day be placed with the complaints that he did not show up for
Connections Corrections chemical de- work or cooperate with other law en- p
pendency program. Day also received forcement agencies.
we’ll hel
credit for the 236 days he had spent in Valent Maxwell was terminated
jail from the time of the incident to the earlier this month after less than three spread the light
time of sentencing.
months on the job, Mayor Kim Aippers-
pach said.
MAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO City Councilman Chris Adler said in your life

CHARGES IN BEATING CASE
that a Lake County deputy reported
One of the men accused of beating a Maxwell left when she asked for his help
motorist after an alleged road rage in- with a hostile suspect at the hospital.
MASTERPIECE
cident in Ferndale pleaded not guilty to Adler also alleged Maxwell told a Con-
new charges last week.
federated Salish and Kootenai Tribal
Gaige Christopher Mower, 20, ap- police oicer during a joint incident re-
peared in Flathead County District sponse that “this was the last time I help

Court on Jan. 23 to enter not guilty pleas the tribe.”
to felony criminal endangerment and Maxwell told the council he couldn’t
misdemeanor assault.
recall leaving the hospital or the conver-
Mower had been previously charged sation with the tribal oicer, and he sug-
with felony aggravated assault.
gested his blood sugar medication may
2541 US Highway 2 E • Kalispell Mower, along with Andrew Nelson be to blame.
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