Articles Written By: Caleb M. Soptelean
POLSON – A substitute district court judge recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by Lake County in an attempt to force the Montana Department of Revenue to send a property tax bill to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes for the former Kerr Dam. Blair Jones, 22nd District Court j...
POLSON – The Camino de Santiago is the way of pilgrims. That’s the message of Travel Light, a movie shown Saturday at the Flathead Lake International Cinemafest. The film earned the 2017 FLIC People's Choice award. Lindsay Thompson produced the documentary based on a 37-day, 500-mile hike t...
(Editor's note: The spelling on Rowold was edited Jan. 26.) POLSON – After 20 years, the Rev. Paul Rowold is calling it quits. Rowold is retiring as pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. Sunday, Jan. 29, will be his last day. The Polson Ministerial Association hosted a retirement party fo...
POLSON – Helping a woman keep her house was just one example of the types of things that May Simmons does. Simmons opened New Hope Center Montana, a non-profit organization, at 610 N. Main St. in the former Glass Doctor building in September. When she found out that April Zimmerer was in danger o...
POLSON – The Polson Schools Board of Trustees last week voted to move forward on a three-year contract with Superintendent Rex Weltz. The vote was unanimous to begin negotiations with Weltz. The board also voted to remove “interim” from his title. Weltz is in his first year as superinten...
POLSON – A St. Ignatius man recently lost a case in district court, had another dismissed, and yet another case is scheduled for trial on Feb. 21. Solomon Preston Bolen, 35, was convicted of criminal possession of dangerous drugs in a bench trial before Judge James A. Manley on Jan. 6. He was convic...
POLSON – A 22-year-old man is facing revocation of his two-year deferred sentence after some $10,000 in cash, firearms, ammunition and various illegal drugs were allegedly found in his Missoula residence on Jan. 4. Gage Daniel Stroop received the deferred sentence in Lake County on July 13, 2016 aft...
POLSON – Bringing the federal and state governments to the table is the goal behind the Lake County commissioners’ 3-0 vote to withdraw from Public Law 280. The vote took place on Wednesday, Jan. 11, after a lengthy public hearing in the Lake County courthouse. Although numerous issue...
POLSON – Crisis management has been the norm at the Lake County courthouse since 1995, according to 20th District Court Judge Deborah Kim Christopher. She spoke at the Pachyderm Club meeting on Friday and talked about the challenges she and others in the judicial and law enforcement fields have f...
W hat began five years ago is going strong and getting stronger in Polson. Get the picture? The Flathead Lake International Cinemafest is this weekend, and this year will feature more than 60 independent films. Producer David King has been involved since the beginnin...
