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Missoula County Public Schools board member Mike Gehl reached out to KGVO News over the weekend to say he is alarmed over two incidents that he says occurred in recent meetings.

The announcement came suddenly on Friday in an email from Missoula County Public Schools that Superintendent Rob Watson would announce his resignation at noon.

Mike Gehl, a member of the Missoula County Public Schools Board of Trustees, spoke to KGVO News on Friday and related what happened at a recent MCPS Trustees meeting that was closed down because he refused to wear a mask.

Like hundreds of other Missoula residents, MCPS Superintendent Rob Watson told KGVO News on Tuesday afternoon that he just tested positive for COVID 19 on Monday.

MCPS Superintendent Rob Watson was on KGVO’s Talk Back show on Thursday and looked back at some of the successes achieved in the 2021 school year.

The Missoula County Public Schools (MCPS) website posted a message on its front page regarding a troubling TikTok post that has swept the country about a possible attack in the nation's schools, even elementary schools.

KGVO spoke to MCPS Superintendent Dr. Rob Watson on Friday regarding the letter he and all the other AA School Superintendents signed expressing ‘no confidence’ in State OPI Superintendent Elsie Arntzen.

Efforts to get children ages 5 to 11 vaccinated against COVID-19 are in high gear at several venues around Missoula, with appointments through both hospitals, the MCPS, and other facilities, including the University of Montana Pharmacy.

The preliminary injunction sought by Stand Up Montana and several other plaintiffs against the Missoula County School District was denied on Friday after noon by District Court Judge Jason Marks.

Missoula District Court Judge Jason Marks heard arguments on Wednesday morning in the case of Stand Up Montana vs. Missoula County Public Schools on the matter of mandatory masking of students as a possible violation of the parents’ Constitutional rights.