Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
According to statistics from the Center for Disease Control, more than one third of children in the United States are overweight or obese. (www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/obesity/facts.htm) That’s a sobering statistic, but Montana fares better than some other states. Montana children are more ...
POLSON — Schulz Refrigeration began in a garage on the east shore of Flathead Lake 50 years ago. When the business outgrew that garage, Dick Schulz moved his business to the Polson Sawmill office, down where the KwaTaqNuk Resort stands now. Finally he bought the building on 710 First Str...
POLSON — With a sunny yellow paint job, a life-sized mural of a cowgirl riding a cow and a copper roof, Flathead Lake Cheese is hard to miss. Wendi and Joe Arnold started the business and, according to their website, thought up the idea in a hot tub about 10 years ago. The creamery/cheesema...
POLSON — Dave DeGrandpre, Land Solutions, LLC, reported to Polson City Commission on the progress of the Polson Development Code re-write at their Oct. 21 meeting. Volunteers, city and county workers and DeGrandpre have been reviewing a draft, “page-by-page, paragraph-by-paragraph and sentence-by...
(Editor’s note: These candidates are the last to respond for the Tribal candidate story. Part one was published in the Oct. 23 edition. Election day for the Tribal Council primary is Saturday, Nov. 2) FLATHEAD RESERVATION — Tribal Council candidates running in the primary election explain why ...
POLSON — Voters will select two board members for the Mission Valley Aquatic Center on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Candidates Judy Fast Carte, Carole Olson and Cheryl Wolfe were asked why they are seeking a position on the MVA board. Judy Fast Carte is retired and loves to swim. She said she wishes th...
POLSON — Governor Steve Bullock named Polson attorney James A. Manley to succeed the Honorable C. B. McNeil as District Court Judge in Lake and Sanders counties on Oct. 25. The three finalists for the judgeship — Manley, Mark Russell and John Conn Schulte — met with Governor Bullock and ...
Members from at least five of Montana’s eight Indian tribes, including two Salish and Kootenai tribal members, gathered in Havre on Oct. 2 and set up a statewide Native American organization to expose corruption on reservations. Tribal governments are “using a smokescreen of tribal sovereignty...
POLSON — “It’s huge,” “I had to call my kids on their cell phones because I couldn’t find them,” and “The selection is huge,” were all comments by area shoppers as they visited Walmart’s new store at 36318 Memory Lane. The behemoth center o...
POLSON — “As a police chief, your goal is to put together the best team that you can, but you will never take away all the drugs,” Polson Police Chief Wade Nash said. Nash and Chief Juvenile Probation Officer of 20th Judicial District Youth Court Services Barbara Monaco spoke...
