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1. Woman Killed in Single Vehicle Crash
A 66-year-old Kalispell woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Sept. 11 near the intersection of Montana High- way 35 and Columbia Falls Stage Road.
Flathead County Sheri Chuck Curry identi ed the victim as Renee Anderson Vick.
Vick was driving her vehicle when it rolled o the roadway at about 8:30 p.m. She was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash and was ejected from the vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Montana Highway Patrol is inves- tigating the accident.
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2. FVCC Locked Down After Report of Suspicious Person
Flathead Valley Community College was brie y locked down on Sept. 16 after- noon following a report of a suspicious person with a gun near campus.
President Jane Karas said the col- lege sent a text message to students and sta at about 4:30 p.m. informing them of the report and recommending they secure the area around them and nd shelter. Law enforcement responded to the campus and investigated the report. After determining there was not a threat, school o cials lifted the lockdown 10 minutes later.
According to the Kalispell Police Department, dispatch received a report of a man with a gun entering the Learn- ing Resource Center on campus. Police o cers, along with Flathead County Sheri ’s personnel, responded to the col- lege. Upon arrival, it was determined that the suspect had already left the scene in a maroon pickup northbound from the college. As a precaution, the school was placed on lockdown. Police o cers cleared the Learning Resource Center and a more in-depth interview was con- ducted with the reporting party. The reporting party revealed that two males were involved in a road rage incident on U.S. Highway 93. The suspect pulled into the college parking lot where he made
contact with another male. At that time, a holstered pistol was brandished at the reporting party in the college parking lot. The individual with the gun was observed leaving the campus without entering any buildings, according to police.
BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION 3. Judge Asked to Restore Cancelled Energy Lease in Badger-Two Medicine
A Louisiana energy company is asking a federal judge to reverse the cancellation of a 33-year-old oil and gas lease on land considered sacred to the Blackfoot tribes of the U.S. and Canada.
Solenex LLC of Baton Rouge led court papers last week seeking a judgment in the case that’s before U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C.
The 6,200-acre lease is in the Bad- ger-Two Medicine area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest. It’s just outside Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
U.S. Interior Department o cials can- celled the lease in March.
They said it was improperly issued in part because environmental studies did not consider the e ects of drilling on the tribes.
Government attorneys must respond to the company’s request to restore the lease within two weeks.
BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION 4.U.S.SenateApprovesWaterCompact
The U.S. Senate authorized the Black- feet Water Compact on Sept. 15 as part of the Water Resources Development Act.
The compact, which has been put before the Senate on four di erent occa- sions since 2010, passed 95 to 3. Now it must pass the U.S. House of Representa- tives before the year is out.
Negotiations between the Blackfeet Tribe, local communities and state and federal governments began more than 30 years ago to establish water rights in and around the reservation. The compact will also help rehabilitate the Four Horns Dam and Blackfeet Irrigation Project; give the tribe the ability to use, lease or exchange water on tribal land; and
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