Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
A granite and stone bench honoring long-time resident Barry Webb was dedicated on July 8 at about 3:30 p.m. Barry passed away on Feb. 23, 2010, and he is sorely missed. A fixture in Polson, Barry had a route beginning at the Polson Senior Citizens Center and then circling through the downtown area to...
POLSON — Skies above the Polson Airport will be full of antique airplanes during the late afternoon of July 12. The planes belong to the Puget Sound Antique Airplane Club, which will include Polson on their 2011 air tour. About 35 planes, everything from current planes back through World War II pla...
POLSON — Federal Negotiator Duane Mecham reported at the June 29 Water Rights Compact Commission negotiating session that he and colleague David Red Horse met with the working group on Indian water settlements in Washington, D.C. Mecham and Red Horse got the go-ahead from this group on three critical i...
POLSON — Black Cats, smoke bombs, bottle rockets, tanks, screaming chickens, snakes as well as the big cakes and artillery shells — they all come out to play in the two or three weeks prior to the Fourth of July. Kids save their allowances, do chores and beg their parents for money to buy fir...
POLSON — Jeff Key, project engineer for the Highway 93 Corridor Study, and Sheila Ludlow, Montana Department of Transportation, met with 30 to 40 community members for the third in a series of informational meetings on the study. The public meeting was held on June 29 at the Polson High School Auditori...
ST. IGNATIUS — A one-car crash at Hillside Road and Airport Road sent the driver and three passengers to St. Luke’s Community Hospital in Ronan. Reported to Montana Highway Patrol dispatch at about 6:15 p.m., the wreck occurred when the dark blue Chevrolet Impala hit the roadside ditch, rolled an...
Dog trucks, specially outfitted with kennels in the bed, louvered panels and perforated metal doors, ceilings and floors supplying ventilation for their canine occupants, packed the parking lot at the KwaTaqNuk Resort. The pricey vehicles housed retrievers participating in the National Amateur Retriever Cham...
POLSON — Emotions were running high over a request for a two-year extension of the preliminary plat approval for Super Wal-Mart three lot subdivision at the June 20 Polson City Commission meeting even though the agenda item had nothing to do with the Wal-Mart Supercenter but with three adjacent lots Wa...
POLSON — Teaching a color theory class at the Sandpiper Gallery, Joanne Simpson has her students busy completing a color wheel exercise. Not only is Simpson a talented teacher, but she’s also a talented watercolorist. Simpson started painting in 1981 after instruction from Rene Newman in Miss...
POLSON — Fay Haynes, 85, who was recently inducted into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame, honored the audience at the Mission Mountain NRA Rodeo with an appearance on her horse on both Friday and Saturday nights. With more competitors and three more events since the rodeo switched from PRCA to NRA, P...
