Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — With a list of evidence and booklet full of clues and charts for evidence evaluation, fourth graders from Linderman Elementary School and their families set out to solve the Case of the Cookie Caper on the evening of Feb. 8. The crime was simple. As the fourth grade teachers wer...
POLSON — On Friday, Feb. 11, seven students were involved in a drug bust at Polson High School. Responding law enforcement agencies included the Lake County Drug Task Force and Lake County Sheriff’s Office personnel. Although the incident is still under investigation, the students were ...
POLSON — A memorandum of understanding between the city of Polson and Will Mavis for a street renovation project underway on Mission View and Skyline Drives was the main topic at the Polson City commissioners meeting on Feb. 7. The entrance to Mission View is dangerous and very steep, Polson c...
POLSON — Due to the lack of time to prepare for agenda items being presented on the night of a meeting, the Polson Rural Fire Board passed a motion Feb. 9 requiring agenda items to be submitted to board secretary Bonnie Manicke or one of the board members at least 10 days prior to a meeting. ...
POLSON — The fourth graders in Mrs. Perry’s class at Linderman School turned into textile designers during January to make a duvet cover for a special Navy SEAL, Chief Petty Officer Jonathan Cummings. How the fourth graders learned about Jonathan is quite a story, involving local businessman a...
POLSON — A $9,690 check from Plum Creek Timber Company Foundation will “basically upgrade the editing system” for The Polson News Network according to supervising teacher Clay Herring, Polson Middle School. PMS students would also like the equipment for live broadcasts, Herring added, and m...
POLSON —Polson Driver’s Education received a new car for their program in January from a Kalispell motor company. Kalispell Toyota donated the new car, a pale green Toyota Camry with only 20,000 miles on its odometer. Polson superintendent David Whitesell said John Hauss, who handles loca...
POLSON — Linderman student Sean Calahan’s favorite book by Sneed B. Collard, III, is “Shep, Our Most Loyal Dog.” “It’s about a dog; his owner got sick and died. He (Shep) waited every night for years for his master at the train station,” Calahan explained. Li...
POLSON — Polson Middle School was hopping on the evening of Feb. 5. Spearheaded by PMS staffers Kathy Fewlass, Rhonda Hinman, Amy Knutson, Sally Lemmon and Jim Steiner, a benefit lasagne dinner was in full swing. The lasagne dinner, silent auction and bake sale were the culmination of fundraising a...
POLSON — When Ronan area resident Jami Sherman was killed in a hit-and-run along Leighton Road on July 1, 2006, there was no felony charge for leaving the scene of an accident when death or serious bodily injury occurred, according to Lake County Attorney Mitch Young. The charge was a misdemeanor w...
