Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — Cooler weather and lots of hot cars helped make the 2010 Cruisen By the Bay Car Show a good time. “There were 184 cars plus 21 of our own cars,” Mike Lee, Mission Valley Cruisers car show manager, said. “We’re really happy with that.” This year w...
POLSON — At peak time at the 2010 Skatejam at the Polson Skatepark on July 31, 40 to 50 skaters swooped around the half pipe and ollied off the hip. Mini-contests were held all day, such as a mini-half pipe and a game of Skate, like a game of Horse on skateboards, took center stage, according ...
POLSON — School districts in Lake County are not all making the grade when it comes to meeting the standards for Adequate Yearly Progress, and new data indicate school districts continue to face challenges. According to the Office of Public Instruction in Helena, data coming out for the 2009-2010 sc...
POLSON — The shady lawn at the Lake County Court House will be dotted with vendor booths offering everything from gourmet mustards to handmade furniture, barn wood signs, quilts and pottery on Saturday, Aug. 7. The Sandpiper Gallery’s one-day art festival will begin at 10 a.m. and go unt...
POLSON — “Hot Rod Lincoln” and “Little Deuce Coupe” will be popular tunes this weekend when the Cruisen By the Bay Car Show takes over downtown Polson. Put on by the Mission Valley Cruisers, Cruisen By the Bay has 58 preregistered entries. Mike Lee, vice president of the Miss...
MELITA ISLAND — It was a Norman Rockwell scene — warm golden light, Boy Scouts playing cards in a big log lodge, a crackling fire, drifting smoke, the snick and clunk of knives slicing watermelon for lunch overlaid with the hum of voices, laughter and music. Songs such as, “I Want to Hold Y...
POLSON — The traditional what-I-did-on-my-summer-vacation essay will be easy for Springfield High School students Tyler Arana, Miles Curry, Jason Mahnesmith and Eli Siegle this fall. The four Oregon teenagers and their history teacher James March have been biking the Lewis and Clark Trail since June...
POLSON — The Polson City Commissioners received some good news at their Monday, Aug. 2 meeting when the Polson Redevelopment Agency Board voted to recommend its 2009 Tax Increment Funds be allocated to the Streetscape project. The amount was expected to be $10,000 but turned out there was $90,...
BIG ARM — There was something for everybody at the Big Arm Bash on July 24 — water fights for the young-at-heart, games for the kids, antique vehicles and wagons for car nuts, a presentation on the Big Arm Schoolhouse for history buffs, a barbecue lunch for the hungry and T-shirts commemorating t...
POLSON — A full moon and beautiful weather made July 23-26 an interesting weekend, according to PPD Chief Doug Chase. Chase said law enforcement responded to 109 incidents. However, Chase stressed the numbers did not reflect on the Flathead Lake 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament. Most of the incidents oc...
