Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — An older fleet of trucks and pickups requiring more and more maintenance as they age prompted Lake County Commissioners to put a two-year Lake County Road levy on the June mail-in ballot. The newest vehicles in the county’s current stable of workhorses are three 2006 Internationals an...
POLSON — Lake County commissioners and Lake County Civil Attorney Mark Russell continue hammering out language for a court-ordered levy to provide another courtroom for the 20th Judicial District. Before he retired, District Judge C.B. McNeil signed a court order requiring the second courtroom be pr...
POLSON — Groundbreaking has been a long time coming for Lake House, an eight-bed mental health crisis care facility, but Western Montana Mental Health Center staffers were joined by well-wishers at a groundbreaking on May 20. “We’re hoping for the facility to be open in December or Janua...
POLSON — If you noticed pickups around Polson with a lot of dust on their bumpers and maybe out-of-state plates, they may have been in town for the Big Sky Sporting Clays Montana State Championship, held May 21 to 24 at Big Sky Sporting Clays on Irvine Flats Road west of Polson. With 168 shooters si...
POLSON — A large yellow bird, softballs, basketballs, wallets and the earth all exhorted kids not to smoke. The items were on posters created for Tar Wars, a tobacco free education program for fourth and fifth graders. Tar Wars is part of a Montana-wide effort to stop kids from beginning to sm...
PABLO — A close-up photograph of a horse’s eye and head drew people to the wall of student photographs and drawings at Two Eagle River School’s Art Slam May 20. Other flat surfaces and display cases celebrated a school year’s worth of student work — paintings, ribbon shirts, bea...
POLSON — Special Olympics athletes received some additional funds from the Knights of Columbus, Father O’Malley Council 6260 as they gear up for the Montana State Special Olympics in Missoula May 19-22. “We call it our Tootsie Roll fund,” said Rodney McElwee, Grand Knight of ...
Polson and Ronan Mission Mountain Enterprise athletes have been working hard to prepare for the Montana State Special Olympics in Missoula May 19-22. Coaches take the athletes to the Mission Valley Aquatic Center, the Polson High School and Linderman School tracks and to area bowling alleys to practice, a...
PABLO — The thud, thud of basketballs and the squeak of basketball shoes are nothing new to the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center, but the all-star slate of coaches presenting at The Hoop Coaches Clinic May 15-17 may never be topped. Headlining the list were Stanford University’s wo...
POLSON — Amonth-old white Katahdin lamb named Corn nestled into kids’ arms at the Fourth Grade Ag Days, sponsored by the Lake County Conservation District. Corn and his younger cocoa-colored friend are “bottle babies,” meaning their mothers couldn’t or wouldn’t fe...
