Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
Bohn, Guenzler in running for District 3 Bryan Bohn and Paul Guenzler are vying for one commissioner’s seat in the election for Flathead Irrigation District 3. Bryan Bohn is a farmer and has lived near Ronan for almost 31 years. He’s served as a Flathead Irrigation District commissioner ...
POLSON — A resolution to reset impact fees was on the agenda at the April 7 Polson City Commissioner meeting. In 2013, the commission passed Resolution 1027, which reduced impact fees by 80 percent as a means of stimulating new building and growth. All new developments within the city limit...
POLSON — Walk into Polson High School, and all around are talking sticks, made by PHS art students. The sticks are displayed crosswise on poles in the lobby, above Principal Rex Weltz’s office door, in the library and in the halls. Matt Holmes, PHS art teacher, took an Office of...
POLSON — Pickups and people with loppers and tree saws advanced on the row of maple and ash trees fronting Kerr Dam Road near the sewer lagoons on April 10 as Jack Stivers and his Montana State University Extension Master Gardener’s class arrived to give the trees a trim. “We volunteer t...
POLSON — “We did a 10-year Band-Aid 12 years ago, and now the Band-Aid is falling apart,” said Tony Porrazzo, city of Polson water superintendent. Porrazzo was talking about wastewater treatment system improvements, which is not a new issue. The Polson City Commissioners will be...
News from the Lake County Commissioners POLSON — Lake County Commissioners wrote Kimberly Bose, Secretary of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, requesting an additional 30-day comment period for Kerr Dam Hydroelectric Project. In the April 3 letter, LCC Chair Bill Barron said, &ldquo...
POLSON — District Judge John Larson sentenced Melvin Madplume, Jr., 30, to life in prison with no parole for killing his cousin Laurence Kenmille on May 25, 2013. Kenmille was 28 years old when he was killed at Wild Horse Hot Springs near the town of Hot Springs. Judge Larson from Missoula pre...
POLSON — The Polson school board meeting on April 7 began with student board representative Sharidan Russell reporting on her trip to Washington, D.C. as a United States Senate Youth Program participant. Among other things, Russell said Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia advised the g...
POLSON — Five Polson Middle School students — Laurel Bitterman, Geneva Des Lions, Carson McDaniel, Cheyenne O’Connor and Nico River — participated in the SAT Challenge sponsored by the Montana Association of Gifted and Talented Education. Ten PMS students took the SAT, and five of ...
POLSON — Trash is a fact of life, and cigarette butts nestle in gutters, around doors and in shrubs around Polson. But to commemorate Kick Butts Day on March 19, Dennis Johnson, Youth Tobacco Education Coordinator, and his youth group picked up the butts, using disposable gloves. Johnson...
