Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — Children’s playhouses made by local builders went on the auction block at Mission Bay Preserve on July 9 as a fundraiser to refurbish the nursery at St. Joseph Medical Center. St. Joe's has the only two obstetrician/gynecologists in the valle,y according to St. Joseph Foundation Direc...
With the Mission Mountains as a backdrop and the Flathead River singing backup, the Montana West project began at Buffalo Bridge on July 11. The project will bring a new, high-speed fiber network to expand broadband services to the Mission Valley and Blackfeet country, according to Ronan Telephone Company...
ELMO — A torrential rainstorm on Saturday evening blew water onto the dance floor and flooded out the stick game pavilion at the 33rd Annual Standing Arrow Powwow. The rain caused about an hour’s delay while powwow committee members and friends swept the water off the floor and then the festiv...
“I like eggs,” John Walkup said. It’s a good thing, too, because John and his wife Crystal and children Chase, 18, Nathan, 14, and Autumn, 12, operate Mission Valley Organic Eggs and have since 2007. Crystal said John often has scrambled eggs for breakfast and for lunch a fried egg sandw...
“Here we are, all because of everybody in this community,” Mission Valley Aquatics Project Director Tana Seeley said at the July 8 groundbreaking ceremony for the highly-anticipated Mission Valley Aquatics Center. For the last 50 years or so, the valley has wanted a pool, Seeley added. Chronic...
POLSON — A fire at 108 Eighth Ave. W. on the Fourth of July started in one of the back bedrooms in the house by a man trying to fuse together some fireworks. Firefighters aren’t sure what ignited the fireworks, but they exploded with a “big white flash” and the man exited the house. A...
POLSON — They call him “the flag guy.” As he travels around the country and overseas, he carries American flags to display. Preferring to remain anonymous, one of the flag guy’s most recent service projects was at the St. Joseph Retirement Community. “The story is not about m...
POLSON — July in the Flathead means cherries: sweet dark-red Lamberts, Lapins and Bings, or blushing yellow Rainiers. The cold winter and cool rainy spring have delayed this year’s crop, though. Dale Nelson, president of the Flathead Lake Cherry Growers, predicts the cherries will ripen around th...
Jackie Cripe, co-owner of Jackie M’s Footwear, will step down as chairman of the Flathead Cherry Festival after this year’s event, and it’s making many Polson Business Community people nervous. The PBC is an organization dedicated to promoting and beautifying downtown Polson. PBC Preside...
A few kids braved the ice-cold water on the Mission Valley Aquatic Center waterslide, but waterslider Ari Phillips said he thought the water was even colder than Flathead Lake. More youngsters grabbed the chance to let out their inner artist for the quick draw chalk painting on downtown Polson sidewalks....
