Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — Female vocalist Robin Geoff of Bigfork’s Blue Smoke crooned songs such as Etta James’ “At Last” at Mission Valley Elks Lodge Saturday, where mason jars glowed on dinner tables alongside antique kitchen implements, enamel wear and horseshoes. Attendees basked in the c...
POLSON — With unseasonably warm temperatures, tulips are poking inquisitive green fingers up to test the weather. Can the Flathead cherry trees be far behind? Cherries are an important agricultural crop up the east shore of Flathead Lake, so that’s a question worrying many growers as coming co...
POLSON — A gym full of children playing carnival games run by Polson High School students brought back an old tradition Saturday evening. The Heart and Soul project found many locals had fond memories of the winter carnival, a staple event at the high school until the 1990s. Last year the ...
PABLO — Students and interested community members picked up information on careers, talked to recruiters and got some ideas for summer employment at the 2015 Salish Kooteani College Career Fair held at the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center on Feb. 17. Job Corps brought a busload of students to ...
POLSON — Austin Martinez plays many musical instruments, but it was his bass clarinet that he took with him to the Northwest Band Festival held in Spokane, Washington, Feb. 12 to 15. Martinez is the first Polson High School band member to qualify for the prestigious festival d...
POLSON — Fresh from the special board meeting on facilities held earlier in the day, Polson School Board Chair John Triolo summarized the “productive meeting” at the Feb. 9 school board meeting. At this time the district is not ready to make a commitment regarding moving grades fro...
POLSON — Braydeon Noel stood in front of the crowd at the Great Futures breakfast. “June 30, 2013, was the worst day of my life,” Braydeon said. He had just moved from Butte; his mom had two jobs, and he only got to see his dad every two months or so. Then he foun...
POLSON — If Helen Steuerwald could swing to Big Band music on her birthday, she would. Yet at 100 years old, she still had enough wind to blow out the candles on her chocolate birthday cake. “She loved to dance,” daughter Janis Jette said, recalling her mother’s younger years. &ldq...
POLSON — Wine, chocolate and your sweetie — what more do you need on Valentine’s Day? Only paints and a canvas, if you were one of the lucky couples who started celebrating Valentine’s Day at the Mission Valley Aquatic Center. Artists Julie Christopher and Heather Holmes l...
RONAN — “Whoa foods,” “go foods” and “slow foods” are nutrition terms kids at the Boys and Girls Club are learning at an after school class that includes a 20-minute nutrition lesson and incorporates 40 minutes of sustained exercise as well as some stretching. Bra...
