Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
With the first snow hitting the Mission Valley, people might need a new snow shovel to move the fluffy white stuff off the sidewalks and deck. According to Gary Granley from Hanson and Granley True Value Hardware, their best-seller over the weekend was a shovel that’s a scoop and a pusher comb...
ST. IGNATIUS — There’s a new store in Mission, and its grand opening is just in time for the holidays. And the best part? Everything’s free. Two or three times a year, Bernie Lovell gets a visit from Don Cline, president of Portland, Ore.-based First Nation Ministries, an outreach org...
Trash bags of crumpled wrapping paper fill garbage cans all over the valley the day after Christmas, and many get hauled to the landfill. But with a little ingenuity, gifts can be wrapped in an eco-friendly way. Use a reusable shopping tote instead of wrapping paper for all manner of things, from a pair o...
POLSON — A Montana Board of Crime Control report indicates that Polson, as compared to other towns of similar size, has the highest number of violent crimes. According to civilian police assistant Brian Kunz, the report compared Polson’s law enforcement agency to 15 other state law enfor...
POLSON — Main Street has been revamped thanks to the Streetscape Project, but there are still a few finishing touches needed. The Polson Community Development Agency has formed an ad hoc committee to raise money for landscaping, benches, bike racks, trash receptacles, maintenance and art, most...
POLSON — Four-way stop signs at Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Avenues on Main Street are a new phenomenon. Some Polsonites love them, and some hate them. City Manager Todd Crossett said he’d had more positive than negative comments on the stop signs. The city will continue to collect op...
POLSON – Last year Jo Durand was up cooking turkeys at 5 a.m. Local church members baked pies and homemade dinner rolls. That’s just a sample of the community caring that goes into the Polson Community Thanksgiving Dinner, and Linda Greenwood and Toni Young already are coordinating the 2010 me...
Much to the disappointment of Lake County, the Mission Valley Choral Society will not be performing their annual Christmas concert at the St. Ignatius Church this year. Conductor of the group, Mason Niblack, reported that the choir has lost about 20 vocal performers since last year for various reaso...
HAMILTON — The Polson High School Speech, Drama and Debate Team traveled to the Hamilton High School meet on Nov. 12 where they competed against at least 10 other high school teams from across northwest Montana. Molly Ricketts earned second place in impromptu speaking. Ricketts was provided with a c...
“I’m doing a story on de-stressing the holiday season,” I told my daughter. She laughed. “That’s funny for someone who can’t live up to her own expectations about Christmas and gets stressed out and mean,” she said. After hearing my daught...
