Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
PABLO — About 600 job seekers and students looking for information about various careers attended the Feb. 22 Salish Kootenai College Career/Job Fair. The doors were open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Joe McDonald Health and Wellness Center, and participants could have cookies and coffee before descend...
POLSON — Brandishing a monkey brain, Victor DeNoble, Ph.D., talked about nicotine addiction at the Spring Juvenile Diabetes Conference held at the KwaTaqNuk Resort and Casino. DeNoble also spoke at the Johnny Arlee/Vic Charlo Theatre on the Salish Kootenai College on Feb. 21. The brain came from Sar...
POLSON — Picture this: A student competing in impromptu speaking is handed a notecard with a quote or a cartoon dealing with cultural, moral or social issues. Then she has three minutes to write a three to five minute speech on the topic. At the end of the preparation time, the student delivers the spe...
Calving and lambing season is beginning across western Montana, for cattle and sheep as well as deer, elk, buffalo and mountain sheep. Montana livestock producers and hunters are worried about wolf predation, and their concerns and frustrations have reached state and national government officials. On a st...
POLSON — “Hendrickson, Hendrickson, Hendrickson,” the 60 or so Polson High School students chanted. The group gathered in front of PHS on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 8 a.m. to protest the non-renewal of PHS vice principal Shawn Hendrickson’s contract. Despite 27-degree weather and light...
What do you make with 100 pounds of hamburger, 100 pounds of potatoes and 50 pounds each of carrots and onions? Well, if the Montecahto ladies are in charge, you add a few other ingredients and make pasties, the authentic Butte kind. While these pasties probably won’t go into the copper mine in anyo...
POLSON — There’s new equipment in the Polson fire hall, and it’s not a shiny new fire engine. Thanks to a $5,000 check from Wal-Mart for wellness, the firemen have refurbished their workout area. New equipment includes a stairstepper, bars and weight machines. The firemen follow a fitnes...
PABLO — Fiddlers, guitar and accordian players and singers gathered at the Johnny Arlee/Vic Charlo Theatre on Salish Kootenai College Campus on Feb. 12. Today’s “just a jam because we didn’t have anything going on in February,” Reg Wearley, Big Arm fiddle player said.&n...
POLSON — Fast seems to be Aja Starkey’s favorite speed — in cross country, track and now Nordic skiing. The Polson High School freshman competed in the Pacific Northwest Championships for Nordic skiing on Feb. 5 and 6. The competition, held in the Methow Valley in Winthrop, Wash., was a...
POLSON — So many people attended the Polson School Board meeting on Feb. 14 that the meeting was moved to Linderman School Library from its normal location at the district administration building. Most of the more than 80 people who packed into the room came to speak on behalf of Polson High School Vic...
