Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — Western Montana Mental Health has drawn up plans for a new campus in Polson, including a crisis stabilization home, a peer support recovery facility as well as office space. The campus tentatively would be located on the west end of land owned by Providence St. Joseph Medical Center across ...
POLSON — The sun was shining, the sky was blue and chunks of ice floated in Flathead Lake on New Year’s Day. It was time for the 12th annual Polar Plunge at Riverside Park. Only five people gathered to dunk themselves, and the temperature was 5 degrees on the First Citizen’s Bank reader boa...
Kevin O’Brien worked for National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Papahanaumokuakia Marine National Monument removing derelict fishing gear, such as nets. Fish, seals and aquatic species eat the plastic nets, and their digestive systems clog and they die. With a crew of 16, fou...
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Hanukkah have come and gone, and 2010 is winding down. Caroling, trimming the Christmas tree, lighting the Menorah and spending time with family and friends are memories to treasure. Along with the memories comes mounds of new stuff: clothes, coats, CDs, video equipm...
PABLO — The $3.2 million biker-access footbridge across Highway 93 connecting the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Complex and Salish Kootenai College is several steps closer to completion. Traffic was detoured through Pablo on Dec. 21 and 22 to allow crews to install the three chunks o...
POLSON — With numbers of arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs rising nationwide, Justice Court Judge Chuck Wall, Polson City Court Judge Doug Olson and Polson Police and Court Clerk Joan Hart have a plan for dealing with the issue in Lake County. The plan would also relieve some ...
POLSON — Hu Beaver, Mission Valley Aquatics board president, presented the MVA case for a zero lease on five acres of city land on Kerr Dam Road at the Dec. 20 Polson City Commission meeting. MVA is considering the land for its pool project. “Mission Valley Aquatics wants to know if the ...
“Bailey is the best Christmas present,” Pam Gibson said. Recently reunited with her doting owner, the four-and-a-half year old black Labrador cross had been missing since October 8. Pam and her husband, Bruce, were gone on vacation when Bailey escaped from her kennel. Since Pam,...
Don’t hate Joyce Norman because she had six Christmas trees up by Halloween and her Christmas shopping completed and wrapped in October. “I love Christmas,” Norman said. Besides, she added, if she has all her Christmas decorating and shopping done, she has more time to enj...
POLSON — Shining Stars has a goal — to help the kids in our community — according to Kim Leibenguth, Polson High School resource officer. Shining Stars is a group composed of the Lake County Deputies Association and Wal-Mart employees. At Christmas the group takes tags from Share t...
