Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — The perfect dress, an orchid boutonniere, wrist corsages, up-dos, fancy shoes, tuxedos, dinner out and, of course, pictures to please parents, are just a few of the rites of prom for high school students. Polson High School’s junior prom was held on March 19 at PHS. The theme wa...
CHARLO — Rancher/educator Donald Owen, 72, died on Feb. 28 due to blunt force trauma possibly sustained from one of his cows. Owen, who lived alone on his ranch on the Post Creek hill, was discovered by neighbor Sharon Rosenbaum, who became concerned when she and other neighbors didn’t see Owe...
POLSON — The new friends sipping tea around the table may have had a significant age gap, but as they shared stories, the fabric of their lives seemed interwoven. “Hi, my name is Imogene. My friends call me Jean, and I will be 85 years old this month,” Imogene Repke said, introduci...
POLSON — City commissioners were asked to approve portable toilet facilities for long-term use at the Polson golf course at their meeting on March 7. As soon as the golf course opens a porta-potty will be situated at the 15th hole and another by the John Dowdall Theatre. A building housing toi...
POLSON — The Polson Rural Fire Board learned they’ll save approximately $2,500 since they need not run an election in 2011. At their meeting on March 9 at the Fairgrounds Fire Station, the trustees received a letter from Lake County election administrator Kathie Newgard stating only two candidate...
POLSON — Drivers on Highway 93 might have thought they’d been transported back 30 to 50 years when Gil Mangels and museum crew David Bosley and John Dark took a spin on the snow in a 1952 Tucker Sno-Cat and a 1970s era Polaris Snow Bird. Mangels broke out the vintage snow machines from the Mi...
POLSON — Tiny dresses made from pillowcases with ribbon ties on the shoulders and colorful shorts for little boys hang on a clothesline at First Citizen’s Bank. Usually children’s clothes aren’t on display at the bank, but these are a special project of bank employees Cindy Beebe,...
News of a proposed drop in funding or even privatization for the Montana Veteran’s Home in Columbia Falls hit Mission Valley veterans hard. The MVH is where veterans in northwest Montana go if they need a nursing home or residential care. Don Lilley, former commander of the Veterans of Foreign W...
POLSON — Lake County residents crowded the North Lake County Library District meeting room on Feb. 28 to talk to their legislative representatives. Attendees were asked to submit questions on note cards, and then Lake County legislators State Senator Carmine Mowbray, R-Polson, and representatives Ja...
POLSON — While sleeping out in a teepee in freezing weather might seem like a publicity stunt, there really was a reason — to call attention to a situation many Montanans deal with every night as well as raise money for Soup’s On, a community kitchen housed in the Wander Inn/Journey Be at 1...
