Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — Weeks of play practice and memorizing song lyrics and lines paid off as students danced and sang on Dec. 13 and 14 at Polson High School. Second graders from Linderman School took the stage with their holiday production of “Christmas at the O.K. Corral.” All the animals — ...
POLSON — Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus were in the art room at Cherry Valley School, and a line of children snaked out into the hall waiting to whisper Christmas wishes to the jolly old elf . During her turn, Ashley Maki asked for a Rudolph stuffed animal with a nose that lights up. Torrin Ellis, 6, re...
Polson is one of five communities selected by The Orton Family Foundation for the second phase of its $10-million, five-year Heart and Soul Community Planning initiative to change the way small cities and towns engage their citizens and plan for the future. “This is a marvelous Christmas gift for ou...
POLSON — The latest in a series of long meetings for the Polson School Board of Trustees went from approximately 5:45 to 10 p.m. Dec. 12 in the Linderman library, moved from the district conference room because of the crowd. Chair Caryl Cox began the meeting with a statement about behavior. &ldqu...
POLSON — With no new business items and only public comment under old business, the Polson City Commission meeting on Dec. 5. looked to be a short meeting, but issues about the Mansion, the large office building on top of Polson hill, cropped up at the meeting and extended its length. Before the con...
Looking like a cross between a buffalo and a beef cow with long wooly skirts and a silky, horse-like tail, the yak heifers wait for their daily food. Owner Larry Richards trundles bales of hay on a wheelbarrow out to the far corner of the pasture. It’s a morning ritual that all livestock owners are fam...
Thanksgiving and Christmas bring thoughts of families together, trimming the tree, sledding, baking Christmas cookies and wrapping gifts. In the holiday whirl, many families make a point of donating to the food bank or Share the Spirit, but gingerbread men and a trip to Grandma’s sometimes wip...
POLSON — It’s been 70 years since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy,” according to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That attack rattled Americans, and the U.S. declared war and plunged into WWII. At the time a young man from Pol...
POLSON — A faux crime was committed at Linderman School, and fourth grade students were called in to solve the case of the missing pirate hook. About 60 families gathered at the school on Nov. 29 to work on the case. Someone allegedly broke into the Linderman office after school on Monday and re-...
POLSON — On a sunny but cold December day, Andi Hurtig tipped her head to the side and considered the sleigh she was painting on the window at Jackie M’s Footwear. She’d already decorated the windows of the Wolf Den, the Crow’s Nest Gallery, Pop’s Grill, and Gull Printing, makin...
