Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — The Polson Police Department received a $5,000 check from Polson Wal-Mart on Jan. 20. According to Erin Melugin, Polson Wal-Mart personnel manager, and Cody Grove, Polson Wal-Mart manager, the money came from Wal-Mart associates volunteering 323 hours to make stockings for children. The vol...
POLSON — A routine request for an extension of preliminary plat approval for Mission Bay Phase 3 until Jan. 20, 2013, generated a lot of discussion at the Jan. 19 Polson City Commission meeting. Although the project’s preliminary plat approval expired in 2009, the city commission could extend the...
POLSON —Lake County commissioners and their counterparts in Flathead County chose Carmine Mowbray to replace John Brueggeman for SD-6. Brueggeman resigned his state senate seat on Nov. 29, 2010, to pursue a career with corporate giant 3M. In a vote held in the Lake County commissioners' office on Ja...
The plan to bill for Motor Vehicle Response drew more fire at the Polson Rural Fire Board meeting Jan. 12 as the Polson Rural Fire District unanimously voted to accept the Bigfork fee schedule for MVR. The schedule reads: Rescue Rate 1, $500, Motor vehicle crash without using rescue tools with less tha...
POLSON — At a ceremony on Jan. 13 celebrating the successful outcome of a lot of hard work, the city of Polson handed over a key to the city to the North County Public Library. Although the name of the library changed from Polson City Library, everything else remained the same. After opening remark...
POLSON — The sun broke out for the Jingle Bell Jog on Jan. 8, but temperatures were in the single digits for runners and walkers on the 3.1-mile course. Cold weather, wind and icy puddles didn’t stop the 80 participants who completed the race according to Polson Running Race director Tyana Sm...
Mission Valley fans of “The Sing Off” on NBC may have noticed a familiar face recently. Jon McLemore, a former Polson resident who married Mission Valley Christian Academy alum Amanda Burton, competed in NBC's television show "The Sing Off.” "The Sing Off" is a competition for a cape...
POLSON —A technology levy and a building reserve levy were two main topics discussed at the last monthly meeting of the Polson School Board held Jan. 10. “We’ve been talking about these levies for about a year and a half; we’ve got some decisions to make,” Whitesell said duri...
PABLO — Students from around the valley came to the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center on Wednesday, Jan. 12 for a Cultural Diversity Fair, one of the events Salish Kootenai College hosted to honor Martin Luther King. “The Cultural Diversity Fair is what we do to celebrate Martin Luther Ki...
A friend said that when the Yost family came to visit for two weeks they brought six coffeepots, three French presses and “I don’t know how many pounds of coffee.” So it stands to reason that growing up in that family would turn Trent, 27, and Troy, 22, into coffee connoisseurs. ...
