Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — The Lake County Compensation Board and the Lake County Commissioners have been grappling with a way to give elected officials with experience more money. In a meeting at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 23, the board, after much discussion, passed two motions for the commissioners to peruse. ...
POLSON — When Denise Juneau, Montana State Superintendent of Public Instruction, came through the door at Cherry Valley School, she was met by Josiah Nichols. Nichols, 10, was singing and drumming a traditional Indian song. Nichols, a young member of the Chief Cliff Singers as is his dad, J.D....
POLSON — Mayor Pat DeVries started off the Sept. 20 Polson City Commissioners meeting with two things to note on the commission meeting of Sept. 8. “The first one is a correction concerning a statement that was attached to the budget amendment at that meeting,” DeVries said. &ldquo...
PABLO — Along with new students enrolling for fall quarter of the 2010-11 school year, Salish Kootenai College also has a new president, Luana K. Ross. Ross, a doctor of sociology, has been on the job since July 15, but she was officially inaugurated on Sept. 15 in the Johnny Arlee/Victor Charlo The...
POLSON — The red, white and blue-striped voting booths were set up, and a line of voters were ready to cast their ballots. No, it’s not already general election day. These voters were fourth graders at Linderman School, and they were choosing a mayor and assistant mayor for each village, or class...
POLSON — “Lunch dude” Jim Steiner reported on changes in the school lunch program for the Polson school board at the Sept. 13 meeting. “If you don’t know it, I have a great food service staff,” Steiner said. “They work very hard every day.” Steiner and hi...
POLSON — The weather on Sept. 11 was beautiful — sunny with a hint of fall in the air. Over 50 pilots took advantage of the weather and flew to Polson for the Fly-In, according to Carmine Mowbray, Polson pilot and one of the Fly-In committee members. Many local pilots brought their planes out of ...
POLSON — The 2010-11 budget was the big issue at the Sept. 8 Polson City Commission meeting. After a budget workshop the last week of August and discussion on Sept. 8, Councilman Mike Lies moved to adopt Resolution #1016, the final budget for fiscal year 2010-11. However, Lies added some unexpected ame...
POLSON — About 15 local artists signed up for the Plein Air Paintout on Sept. 11, which turned out to be sunny. The group gathered at Riverside Park at 9 a.m. but then scattered, with some going to the Travis Dolphin Dog Park, one man going to the Polson Fly-In and four artists remaining at Riverside P...
POLSON — The Mission Valley Animal Shelter’s annual Doggy Dash fundraiser had the dogs out in full force Saturday morning. Pets and their owners gathered bright and early at the Travis Dolphin Dog Park to walk — or run — a three-mile course through Polson. Seventeen people collected p...
