Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — “Christmas at the OK Corral” hit the stage at Polson High School on Dec. 15 starring about 140 second graders from Linderman School. Second grade teachers Julie Calhoun, Sheri Delaney, Kris Nordberg, Melinda Orchard, Jennifer Seifert and Kristin Wilson combined their clas...
Although most people know the Lake County Jail is located in the Lake County Courthouse, the day-to-day workings of the jail are a mystery. Lake County Detention Control Officer Gus Blaise shed some light on procedures. A detention officer with Lake County since 1999, Blaise handles the main desk...
CHARLO — The thundering horses are young boys in blue uniforms, and no one’s throwing spears from these chariots. But from the sound of the crowd in the Charlo School’s gym, the event is every bit as exciting as chariot races in the days of the Romans. Dozens of Cub Scouts from Western Mont...
POLSON — Soup’s On set up a depression-era soup kitchen at Page by Page Books during downtown Polson’s Historic Living Windows on Dec. 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. Sandy Farrell and her crew from Soup’s On dressed in period clothing and served soup from an authentic cookstove. Outside Pat West...
Go to jail. Go directly to jail. While the directions are easy to follow on a Monopoly board, they just won’t work with the Lake County Jail. In a supply-and-demand detention economy, the demand outweighs the supply with about 1,000 people on a list waiting to serve their time, and a jail with a cap...
POLSON — Share the Spirit is desperately in need of cash donations according to director Toni Young. Young said Share the Spirit received more than 1,350 names for children this year, up from last year’s approximately 1,100 children. The program provides Christmas gifts for Mission Vall...
CHARLO — Chance Rosenbaum from Scout Troop 1951 built bleachers for the far Charlo baseball field for his Eagle Scout Project. He had his Board of Review last week; his project was accepted so he is an official Eagle Scout. Rosenbaum, 17 and a senior at Charlo High School, welded the frame in his sc...
POLSON — Students attending Salish Kootenai College were finishing up their finals before the Christmas break. Student Donna Dombrosky took her final in Anatomy and Physiology on Dec. 9. She had an A going into the final, and she happens to be 78 and will turn 79 in January. SKC’s oldest...
POLSON — Jeff Key, a transportation planner from Camp Dresser and McKee, Inc., gave information about the Polson Area Transportation Plan at the Polson Business Community meeting on Dec. 9. The plan will look at ways to improve Highway 93, Key said. The answer might be a bypass or might be improvements...
Temperatures in the 20s didn’t dissuade shoppers from coming downtown to take in the 6th Annual Art Walk on Dec. 3, but the cold may have cut down on strolling. People quickly walked from store to store, releasing snippets of Christmas carols as doors opened and closed. Inside stores, artists and music...
