Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
News from Mission Valley Aquatic Center POLSON — The 12th annual Polson Bay’s Water Daze 1.2-mile swim across Polson Bay will take place Saturday, Aug. 2. Registration opens at 10 a.m. at Boettcher Park. Transportation is provided from Boettcher Park to City Docks at 12:15 p.m., and the ...
ELMO — “It’s a day for the kids of Elmo,” Pearl Yellowman-Caye said. “… It’s a good way to transition into the powwow. We’ve honored our kids first.” Yellowman-Caye was talking about Strengthen My Nation Youth Day held July 17. On top o...
ELMO — Campers, tents and a few tipis took over the powwow grounds in Elmo for the Standing Arrow Powwow July 18 to 20. Dancers and drummers from around the state, Wyoming, Washington, Idaho and Canada turned up for the Kootenai tribe’s gathering. Jordan Stasso and Eddie Spears,...
ELMO — It wasn’t just the usual bus ride into town for Sharon Lee Buckskin last week. Nine months pregnant, she got on the DHRD Transit bus in Elmo on July 15 to go to Polson for some appointments, and when she got off the bus she had her newborn baby with her. Sharon’s baby, due July 22...
POLSON — Polson school board trustees approved a 2-percent salary increase for non-represented employees and a 2-percent increase for administrators for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years. The teachers and the classified staff had not voted at the time of the meeting on June 14. Polson Class...
POLSON — It was a toss up with the kids who attended Live History Days whether riding the jeep with the attached machine gun, the tennis ball cannon or the motorcycle and sidecar was the most fun. Oh, and don’t forget the trains to ride and the helicopter and airplane to climb onto. One you...
FINLEY POINT — The paint mare faced Justin Freter’s back, her sides heaving as she caught her breath. Freter said he turned his back so she didn’t feel like a prey animal. Freter, a clinician for Clinton Anderson’s Downunder Horsemanship, was conducting a private clinic for a...
Wheat farmers beware — a bright orange insect called a wheat midge could be invading your fields. Wheat in the blossom stage is most vulnerable to wheat midge, according to Jack Stivers, MSU Extension Agent for Lake County. The midge is a predator on spring wheat acreage only, Stivers said, si...
POLSON — All the bays of the Polson fire station were opened, the trucks moved out and chairs moved in to seat the approximately 120 Polson residents, business owners and landlords who attended the July 7 public hearing. Polson residents were upset after having received letters from the City o...
During the Polson City Commissioners July 7 meeting, the second reading of an ordinance to allow golf carts on designated streets within the city of Polson was approved. Commissioners also heard an update on the Flathead 3-on-3 basketball event July 25 to 27, and learned everything is in place. The commit...
