Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
Incumbent Janna Taylor, R, and Mike, her husband of 31 years, live near Rollins. The couple has two sons and three grandchildren. With a BS in education, Taylor has worked at “everything from night lamber (checking pregnant ewes at night) to waiting tables to managing businesses.” Tay...
POLSON — Main Street business people Ed McCurdy, Gayle Siemers and Streetscape committee member Becky Dupuis were on the agenda at the Oct.18 Polson City Commissioner’s meeting. They had come to talk to the commissioners about additional funding for the Main Street Special Improvement District. ...
POLSON — “Lake County School History, Volume 1” has been a labor of love as will Volume 2. The book has required the hard work of many people and lots of time. Joyce Decker Wegner, who was the Lake County superintendent of schools for many years, is one of the co-authors and tireless worker...
Eight pairs of eyes watched and eight pairs of ears listened to Edna Lemm as she explained the watercolor landscape the 9-to-14-year-old students would be painting on Oct. 14. Lemm, a local artist who teaches art classes for the after-school crowd, equipped each student with watercolor paper taped to a bo...
POLSON — Suzanne Gyzeny and Tomi Todaro spoke to the Polson School Board of Trustees at the monthly meeting Oct. 11. Gyzeny and Todaro are the mothers of two seventh-grade girls who were involved in a Sept. 16 playground incident where another student allegedly threatened them with a gun. The ...
POLSON — “A vampire can’t just walk into your house and start sucking your blood. First, it has to be invited,” Claudia Cunningham read to a packed house at Page by Page Books on Sept. 17. Cunningham is the author of “Biting Back, A No-Nonsense, {No-Garlic} Guide to Facing the P...
PABLO — Negotiating teams from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the State of Montana and the United States, acting as trustee for CSKT, gathered at the CSKT Council chamber on Sept. 29, in order to continue work on a Reserved Water Rights Compact. Duane Mecham, head of the U.S. tea...
Challenger Edd Blackler, D-Bigfork, opposes incumbent Verdell Jackson, R-Kalispell, for the Senate District 5 seat. Blackler, 66, is retired, but he drives a school bus route in Bigfork. Blackler and wife Janet have been married for 38 years. With a BE degree in music from the University of Monta...
PABLO — Marietta Jaeger Lane’s life changed forever in 1973 when her daughter Susie was kidnapped and killed, as was Carolyn Madplume’s when her daughter Catherine was murdered in 2005. Lane and Madplume shared their stories at an event called Beyond Repair — True Stories of the De...
The Streetscape Task Force has been the engine pushing the Streetscape project and serves at the pleasure of the Polson City Commissioners. The task force’s directives were to complete a design for Streetscape and move the project to construction, so its job is about done. STF has been very ac...
