Somers News

Monday 7/6 12:07 a.m. On Willow Glen drive, an intoxicated woman was screaming wildly and calling for her pastor.

In the last two weeks, rumblings over planning issues in Flathead County have escalated to explosive debate, with heated public meetings, a lawsuit, calls for the planning director's resignation and allegations of illegal planning activities and fiscal abuse.

A retired Kalispell doctor who pleaded no contest to aggravated cruelty to animals for abandoning 12 puppies at a dump site in Somers has been given a six-month deferred sentence.

KALISPELL - A retired Kalispell doctor charged with aggravated animal cruelty for abandoning 12 puppies at a dump site in Somers was given a six-month deferred sentence Thursday.

Good morning and happy July 4 weekend! On the Beacon today, we raided the Kitchen Guy's recipe stash for a four-course Fourth of July menu .

Authorities say a 52-year-old Somers man was charged with aggravated assault a day after his 18-year-old son was shot in the chest and stomach.

Good morning; on the Beacon today, American Dream Montana is leveling allegations against the county planning director and his staff, including violation of state open record and meeting laws and misuse of public funds.

The poet Robert Burns said it first: The best-laid schemes often go awry, and leave us grief and pain.

A group of Somers and Lakeside area landowners filed a lawsuit against Flathead County Thursday afternoon, accusing the county of conducting neighborhood planning efforts in each community secretly and in violation of state and local laws.

Good morning; on the Beacon today, more traffic fatalities. Marlene Kay Siblerud of Somers was killed in a three-vehicle crash just south of Somers Monday.

Monday 6/22 12:29 a.m. Loud music and loud voices were heard on Bison Drive. 12:45 a.m. A vehicle drove up and down Daley Lane, possibly spotlighting homes.

Flathead County Sheriff's deputies responded to a public meeting in Somers last week, after a gathering meant to provide information on a potential neighborhood plan dissolved into a shouting match.

8:34 a.m. A suspicious vehicle appeared in the parking lot of a local trucking company.

He eventually got a ride to the hospital for some help. 9:53 a.m. Horses that were seen roaming near the large cross in Bigfork were gone when authorities arrived.

Burlington Northern Sante Fe is up to something. The railroad giant has approached property owners in Whitefish and Somers, offering to buy their land.

KALISPELL - Gov. Brian Schweitzer has signed into law two bills that name stretches of U.S. Highway 2 in the Kalispell area after two Montana Highway Patrol troopers killed in the line of duty.

Some property owners in Whitefish and Somers have been approached by Burlington Northern Santa Fe about purchasing their land.

MTPatrol Crash-Victim ID,0113 CFalls man killed in head-on crash with trooper Eds: APNewsNow.

SOMERS - The Montana Highway Patrol says one of its troopers in the Flathead Valley was involved in a head-on crash that spared the trooper but killed the other driver.

Good morning and happy birthday to Akira Kurosawa . A Highway Patrol trooper was killed in a head-on collision near Somers early this morning.