Somers News

BUTTE - Butte-Silver Bow commissioners have voted to spend $225,000 in economic development money for the upcoming National Folk Festival in Butte.

Area residents and trucking-industry representatives met with the state Department of Transportation this week to talk about possible truck restrictions on Montana 35, but transportation director Jim Lynch ...

SOMERS, Mont. - The state Department of Transportation held public meetings this week to discuss possible restrictions on heavy truck traffic on Montana 35 after a tanker truck overturned and spilled almost ...

Following a 2-1 vote by the Flathead County Commissioners last month to deny a 286-lot subdivision near Somers, the developers of the North Shore Ranch have filed a civil complaint against the county seeking a ...

“It was one of those situations where letting him go outweighed the risks of catching him and putting him in jail”

Kalispell Police officer Chad Zimmerman looks through the back of Scott Foster's Ford truck after Foster collided with a stopped tractor-trailer on U.S. 93 south of Kalispell Monday evening. via Daily Inter Lake

“There's a lot of history in this old barn”

SOMERS - A two-headed brook trout is preserved in a jar of alcohol at the Flathead Lake Salmon Hatchery south of Somers. via Great Falls Tribune

After a short winter break, construction resumes Monday on U.S. Highway 2 through Havre. via Great Falls Tribune

“That surprises people quite a bit”

North Shore Ranch, a proposed 290-lot, 364-acre subdivision near Somers, has been revised and will come before the Flathead County Planning Board on March 12. via Daily Inter Lake

“I really have a problem with the way this is being handled, from the top down”

The family of a Somers man who was struck and killed by a drunken driver is unhappy with a plea agreement in which the driver could serve as little as a year in prison, followed by alcohol treatment. via Montana Standard

The Bigfork Land Use Advisory Committee filled the vacancy on the six member board at last week's meeting before unanimously passing the two applications on the agenda. via Bigfork Eagle

More than a dozen Somers area residents turned up at the Somers Middle School Cafeteria on Wednesday to talk about kicking the possibility of a neighborhood plan into high gear. via Bigfork Eagle

“OK, well 'Chubbs' is not Zac's name”

The Bigfork Land Use Advisory Committee filled the vacancy on the six member board at last week's meeting before unanimously passing the two applications on the agenda. via Bigfork Eagle

A driver who killed two pedestrians near Plains in March 2007 has agreed to plead guilty to a pair of felony vehicular homicide charges. via Daily Inter Lake

One man was killed and four were injured in a crash Thursday evening on U.S. 93 just south of Snowline Lane. via Daily Inter Lake

A barn in the 200 block of Breezy Point Avenue in Somers burned to the ground early Sunday morning. via Daily Inter Lake

A woman is dead following a one-vehicle accident that happened in the Flathead overnight. via KRTV

“Is everybody here happy to be on the West Shoooore?”

The resort tax subcommittee of the Bigfork Steering Committee has set up an e-mail address for the express purpose of taking questions from the community, subcommittee chair Bruce Solberg said last week's BSC ... via Bigfork Eagle

“Is everybody here happy to be on the West Shoooore?”

At last weekend's Wake Up Old Man Winter Party in Lakeside, the band had just finished one of their blue-sy, if ear-rattling, songs when the lead singer picked up the microphone to get the crowd going. via Bigfork Eagle

Somers residents were holding their breath again, last week, as the Flathead County Planning Board prepared to hear the preliminary plat application for the North Shore Ranch subdivision once again. via Bigfork Eagle

“We've got to just keep looking for money to get the job done.”

Residents are nearing completion of an 8-year, $550,000 effort to rehabilitate the exterior of their century-old railroad depot. via KPAX