Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — A new and different show opened at the Sandpiper Gallery on March 8. Instead of wine and hors d’oeuvres, cookies were served. Featured artists for the show were first graders from Mrs. McCrumb’s and Mrs. Siemers’ classes from Cherry Valley Elementary School. The proud arti...
The skies were blue, the wind was blowing, the Missions were dusted with snow and the view of Flathead Lake was magnificent, much as it may have been 200 years ago when David Thompson, Canadian explorer, mapmaker, surveyor and fur trader, visited western Montana. According to his journals, Thompson first saw...
POLSON — It’s a sure sign of spring when two lines of vehicles are backed up so people can order at Richwine’s Burgerville. “Burgs,” as Polson resident Amy Knutson said everyone who grew up around here calls it, celebrated its 50th anniversary on March 2. The drive-through re...
POLSON — Wal-Mart requested building permits for its new Super Center last week according to the City of Polson Building and Planning Department. Before the permits are issued, Wal-Mart must submit their building plans to the Polson building inspector for review. The last plans, dated April 12, 2006...
POLSON — Marjorie Burgan and her husband David planned ahead: they purchased burial plots at Lakeview Cemetery in December 2004. Seven years later, on Dec. 4, 2011, David passed away, and Marjorie again visited the cemetery, this time to arrange her husband’s burial. She wasn’t prepared ...
POLSON —Drive to Seattle, put on your firefighter turnouts and self-contained breathing apparatus, a combined weight of 45 pounds, and run up 69 flights of stairs at the Columbia Center. The building, formerly the Bank of America Towers, is one and one half times the height of the space needle and the ...
PABLO — The parking lot at the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center was packed with vehicles on Feb. 21 when Salish Kootenai College and the Lake County Job Service co-hosted the 2012 Career/Job Fair. Inside fair attendees questioned and visited with over 76 table holders representing different bu...
POLSON — In celebration of leap year, Wednesday, Feb. 29 was leap day at Cherry Valley Elementary School. As an extra-special treat, Monte, the popular mascot for the University of Montana Grizzlies, made a road trip to Polson. Monte played follow-the-leader with some students, gave out hugs and ...
POLSON — Drama productions are labor intensive: casting the play, learning lines, blocking, constructing and painting the set, making costumes and practice, practice, practice. If the actors write the play, it’s even bigger. That’s what happened this year when upper school students at Missi...
POLSON — No one spoke in favor of an ordinance prohibiting the use of cell phones and other handheld electronic communications devices while driving during a public hearing Feb. 22. But 10 community members did speak out against the proposed ordinance. From a rundown of the costs for hands-free cell...
