Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — The Polson Middle School faculty and students are sponsoring raffle baskets to benefit the Berry family. Mom Julie Berry has been re-diagnosed with breast cancer. Two Super Bowl baskets were given away at the Polson/Thompson Falls basketball games on Saturday, Feb. 5, but there are more bas...
POLSON — Dozens of drumsticks flashed in the spotlights as high school percussionists tapped out “Seat Beat” on their chairs. The percussionists and their fellow band members from Hamilton, Libby, Polson and Stevensville gathered at Polson High School for the Northwest Montana Band Festival...
DAYTON — Socks chews on the ears of his dog friend, Buddy, takes time out to lie on Bernadine “Bean” Tenas’ lap and then sniffs the edge of the tablecloth. Outside Socks can run in a fenced yard and watch the neighbor children and deer run by occasionally. It’s good to be hom...
BIG ARM — Dangling like fuzzy dice from a rearview mirror, three Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep laced into orange bags and sporting matching orange blindfolds hung from a helicopter as they made the journey from Wild Horse Island to Big Arm State Park. With no predators on the island, the population o...
POLSON — Sharidan Russell and Kelsey Koberg, competitors in Policy Debate, and Megan Pope, whose event is Extemporaneous Speaking, earned first place at the Class A Montana State Speech, Debate and Drama Meet. The meet was held on Jan. 27 and 28 in Polson. The Polson Speech and Drama Team finished s...
MISSOULA — After a preliminary pretrial conference on Jan. 6, Judge Donald Molloy, Ninth Circuit Court, set a jury trial for Nov. 5 in a case brought by Patrick Haun against former Polson Police Chief Douglas Chase, Police Chief Wade Nash, Officer Anthony Dentler and Lake County Sheriff’s Deputie...
POLSON — Travel began early for the Sydney Eagles as they began their cross-state trek to the State Class A Speech, Debate and Drama meet in Polson Jan. 25 for competition beginning on Jan. 27. Bad roads sidelined the Havre Blue Pony team in Browning for three hours before they rolled on down the highw...
Denver Holt, director of the Owl Research Institute in Charlo, guided a total of about 70 Five Valleys Audubon Society members to see the owls on Jan. 20 and 21. So many birders wanted to see the snowy owls that Rebecca Sills from the Five Valley Audubon Society had to set up two groups. Sills got interes...
POLSON — Piles of snow and icy roads didn’t deter members of the Western Montana Stockmen’s Association from holding their winter meeting on Jan. 21 at the KwaTaqNuk Resort and Casino. The WMSA honored LaRue Melton of Big Bend with a lifetime achievement award at the banquet, and he rece...
POLSON — Questions regarding impact fees on the Mansion, the large office building on Polson Hill, and the impact fees on Polson City Attorney James Raymond’s house again came up at the Polson City Commission Jan. 18 meeting. Although no official statement was made regarding the impact fees on...
