Three seats on Flathead Electric Co-op’s Board of Trustees are up for election this year. Potential candidates must be members of the Co-op and live in the district they seek election to represent. The nominating petition requires 25 signatures from Co-op members who also live in the candidate’s district. Nominating petitions with a photograph and […]
8:45 p.m. UPDATE: ALL CLEAR. Power has been restored, and Shady Lane is now re-open. Thank you again for your patience. Crews are working to repair damages to electrical equipment following a vehicle accident on Shady Lane. Shady Lane (from Highway 35 to the intersection of Conrad Dr and Holt Stage) is closed temporarily to […]
Flathead Electric Co-op is accepting applications for its $500 spring student-teaching scholarship between January 1 and January 31. The scholarship opportunity is provided for students completing their education degree while student teaching in Montana. The funding will be distributed in February. To be eligible, the candidate (or their parent or legal guardian) must be a […]
A $1,600 Roundup for Safety (RFS) grant will fund radios for Northwest Montana Back Country Horsemen (NMBCH), who clear trails, provide pack support and other maintenance in the National Forests and surrounding areas. RFS previously funded radios for the group, which president, Rick Mathies, says were put to good use just weeks after receiving them. […]
Crews are repairing equipment on Hodgson Road following a vehicle accident. There will be an outage on the feeder (impacting the areas of Whitefish Stage, Happy Valley, Hwy 93 landfill area, Tetrault, and all roads that spur from them) around 1:45 p.m. today while the crew transfers the wire to a new pole. We expect […]
High sustained winds since 3:30 a.m. are causing trees to fall into power lines and other significant damage to electrical equipment. We are experiencing outages across our service territory. Crews are responding, but progress in some areas will be slow and there may be additional outages until the winds die down. Please bear with us […]
The kids and I taking a trunk load of pears from our garden to the Veterans’ Pantry this morning…thought that would be a fun way to make a test run with full every seat filled. Fun car! Sherry
Flathead Electric Cooperative is accepting applications now for two scholarship opportunities for the 2020 academic year. Basin Electric Power Cooperative (BEPC) awards one $1,000 scholarship each year to a Flathead Electric member’s child, and the Montana Electric Cooperatives Association (MECA) awards one $500 scholarship to a regional electric cooperative member’s child. To be eligible, the […]
One of the Montana Electric Co-op Association’s (MECA) top awards, the Hog-Tied Award, this year went to Stacey Schnebel, a Flathead Electric Co-op trustee and member of the MECA board. The award was announced at MECA’s annual meeting Oct. 9. The Hog-Tied Award is presented to a cooperative director or employee who has exemplified […]
Flathead Electric Cooperative is accepting applications for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Youth Tour to Washington, D.C. Two local students will be selected to receive an all-ex pense-paid trip to join more than 1,500 high-school students from around the country to tour the nation’s capital next June. Participants will learn about the history […]
