Finley Point News

At a public meeting following the October crash of a tractor-trailer along the east shore of Flathead Lake, Montana Department of Transportation Director Jim Lynch told the audience a community effort to increase safe driving along Highway 35 would ultimately be more effective than attempts to restrict truck traffic along the roadway.

Good morning; on the Beacon today, Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. announced Wednesday that the company will curtail all production at the end of October.

An accident on Montana Highway 35, about one mile south of the Finley Point Fire Station, is causing significant traffic problems.

If not for the quick work of a nearby home owner and a passerby, a chip truck driver probably would have suffered serious burns after the tractor-trailer he was driving went off the north side of the road on Highway 35 about five miles from Polson.

S&K Marina recently put into service a wastewater pumping-station on its docks. The reason is twofold.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is still working on restoring properties affected by a large fuel spill near Finley Point last spring.

Drop by the home of Deb and Andy Carstensen on Flathead Lake and chances are you'll never be invited inside.

MISSOULA - Sharon Anne English, 70, of Missoula, died of natural cause Thursday in Missoula.

A semi truck carrying cement and towing a pup trailer has overturned on Highway 35 about a mile south of the Finley Point turnoff along Flathead Lake.