Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — Four candidates have thrown their hats in the ring for the office of Lake County Sheriff/Coroner. Since all are Republicans, the primary election will decide the election. The four candidates are Don Bell, Kim Leibenguth, Rick Schoening and Dan Yonkin. Bell was born in Ronan and ha...
POLSON — Picture this — the Mission Mountain Wood Band set up on a barge anchored at Sacajawea Park for a Fourth of July concert, fans packing the lawn. Well, 2014 is the year. Band members Rob Quist and Steve Riddle were in town to announce the band’s appearance in Polson on the F...
PABLO — Kids were dancing, kids were playing double ball, kids were learning about correct hand washing and teeth brushing and kids were planting peppers and beans at the children’s health fair on April 30. The health fair came about because Salish Kootenai College Bachelor of Science in Nursi...
The 500-pound sow snored delicately, twitching one fuzzy pink ear in her pig dream. Fourth graders from Ronan walked around the corner and up to where the sow’s nose peeked through the stall boards. “Should we wake her up?” one kid asked. Then the students reached down to scratc...
POLSON — Friday was sunny, perfect for the 2014 opening of the Polson Farmers Market. At about 8:30 a.m. tents were going up, tables were unfolded, and tomato plants, jewelry, pastries, pies and bread, flowers, wooden rocking horses, bedding plants, receiving blankets, soap, jelly and many more item...
POLSON — In its third day, the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics came down Jette Hill and into Polson on May 1 about 1 p.m. carrying the Flame of Hope. Bikers Mitch Young, Ali Bronsdon and John Azzopardi followed Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Shad Andersen into town and were followed by t...
POLSON — Two Polson High School students have achieved something very rare. “Two kids from a school this size is a statistic anomaly,” Cash Sisler said. Sisler was talking about nominations to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for himself and classmate Tel Motich...
POLSON — For the first time in quite a while, Polson High School thespians will stage a play in the PHS auditorium. Two performances of “Suitable for Hanging” are set for May 9 and 10 with a 6:30 p.m. curtain time. “Suitable for Hanging” is set in 1971 and written b...
RONAN — Community member Jack Stivers will soon board an airplane for a 30-hour flight to his orphanage in Matuu, Kenya. He’ll be taking good wishes and bags of clothing and school supplies from the Mission Valley with him on his June 10 trip. Salish Kootenai College elementary education major...
POLSON — A Minesinger Trail homeowner burning grass behind a shed lost control of his fire on April 21. Believing the flames to be out in the shed area, he began burning ditches, but the flames crept under the shed, burning the building and an 18-foot camper stored in the shed, according to Karen Sarge...
