Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — The building housing Vintage Vida Antiques and Gifts, 3 Fourth Ave. E, was constructed in 1890 on railroad ties, according to LaNita Fitzpatrick, owner. It was Polson’s first boot and saddle shop, but now it’s full of “pieces of everybody’s past,” Fitzpatrick said...
Ebola. The very word sounds menacing, but then the disease is defined – an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, which is spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus. Rest assured, local medical and emergency workers are preparing...
POLSON — Delivering rambunctious children safely to school requires patience and skill, yet Polson bus driver Cynthia Doll has additional talents driving her in a different direction. She recently finished her first novel, “The Sparrow’s Choice,” a historical fiction novel set in 1...
Although CORE/Flex sounds like a new exercise program, it’s really a way Polson High School is making itself a better school. Core stands for Counting On Reaching Excellence, and flex stands for flexibility. Implemented at the beginning of the 2013-14 school year, CORE/Flex is a syste...
PABLO — Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a 911 call at 8:12 a.m. Friday. The call reported a man with a shotgun outside Salish Kootenai College housing on Hewankorn Loop. Dispatchers used emergency tones so deputies responding were the only ones who could talk; everyone else just li...
POLSON — Polson City Commissioners chose a sequenced batch reactor, priced at $14.3 million, instead of a membrane bioreactor with a price tag of $18.3 million for Polson’s new wastewater treatment system at their Nov. 17 meeting. That means $14.83 less on each water bill for Polson consumers. ...
POLSON — Polson residents have been watching construction on the Polson Health Clinic and its Outreach Clinic near the Mission Valley Aquatic Center for months. Questions abound about the new clinic: Is it going to be another hospital? Will there be a surgical clinic? Are they going to be hiri...
Lake County Sheriff-elect Don Bell and Jim Atkins, his undersheriff, will take office one second after midnight on Jan. 1, 2015. Bell said Atkins is “hardworking, honorable and has integrity.” Atkins currently works for the Polson Police Department and has worked in the p...
PABLO — The camas plant and Salish Kootenai College forestry professor Robert Kenning’s work with camas restoration on the Flathead Reservation garnered Kenning an award. He was named one of four U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2015 Tribal ecoambassadors. The ecoambassadors are tr...
With a breakfast served by the Ladies Auxiliary at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Ronan, veterans standing on the Armed Forces Memorial Bridge in Polson, a program at Laverne Parish’s grave in Ronan, a celebration at Glacier View Christian School and free lunch at the Cove, veterans around the Mission...
