Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
MISSOULA — Controversy over allegations of corruption in the Lake County Sheriff's Department came to a head last week when Sheriff’s Deputies Steve Kendley, Michael Gehl, Ben Woods and Levi Read and former deputy Terry Leonard filed a complaint Feb. 21 in United States District Court. The men...
POLSON — The teepee went up in front of the Wander Inn on Feb. 20. A small woodstove provided heat for the teepee, and volunteers from the church and the community will be sleeping in it all week to raise awareness and funds for the growing number of homeless in the area. Although temperatures are s...
Interesting people, from ranchers to business people to actors, call the Mission Valley home. Although writer/director Brad Bird doesn’t live in the Flathead now, he was born in Kalispell. Growing up, he spent summers at Bird Point on the south end of Flathead Lake. A San Francisco Bay area resident...
POLSON — Continuing the recent tradition of long meetings, the Polson School Board of Trustees’ Feb. 13 meeting went on until 10 p.m. but began with a surprise: Trustee Theresa Taylor tendered her resignation. Among other things, her letter of resignation said, “Agenda items tonight, alo...
POLSON — The task: develop a robot that can pick up racquetballs, put them in a crate and then stack the crates. A team gets extra points if the robot can lift the crate above its head. The machine also must push a bowling bowl up a ramp, and it must fit into an 18-inch by 18-inch box. Polson High S...
POLSON — It’s not unusual for couples to get married in the Lake County Courthouse, but Penny Lane and Pittsley Lundeen may be the first gnomes ever to tie the knot there. A Pittsburgh Steelers gnome, Pittsley, belongs to Les Lundeen and was abducted before Thanksgiving from his home nea...
POLSON — Two Polson Middle School eighth-graders have the chance of a lifetime this summer. Wyatt DuCharme and Payton Lefthand are two of 100 kids chosen from Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon to attend a National Basketball Camp Tour to the United Kingdom and Europe in July. In a press release ...
Reddish brown rabbits, sleek and brown-eyed, inhabit the greenhouse at Eloise Anderson’s place off Round Butte. They are New Zealand Reds, and the adults can weigh 9 to 12 pounds. With big cages, half inside the greenhouse that stays at about 82 degrees, and half outside, now covered with tarps, the...
Three Polson High School students won State titles at the Class A Speech Debate and Drama Meet held in Polson Jan. 27 and 28. Kelsey Koberg and Sharidan Russell earned their medals in Policy Debate, and Megan Pope took home the Extemporaneous Speaking first-place medal. Koberg and Pope are seniors, so ...
POLSON — A proposed ordinance prohibiting the use of hand-held electronic communication devices while operating a motor vehicle drew mostly negative comments at the Feb. 6 Polson City Commission meeting. Polson Police Chief Wade Nash said he supports the concept of the ordinance, but he had question...
