Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — Two people threw their hats in the ring for the Ward 2 Polson City Commissioner position — Jill Southerland and Murat Kalinyaprak. Kalinyaprak is a self-employed computer professional with 34 years of experience. He has lived in the Polson area for 22 years. He noted that he has ...
POLSON — Cooler weather is coming. Time to have a pot of soup simmering on the stove while you’re wrapped up in a quilt with a cat on your lap. If a cat is missing from your life, the Mission Valley Animal Shelter, Life Savers Animal Rescue and All Hearts Rescue all have cats and kittens...
Tee came to the Mission Valley Animal Shelter as a young Belgian Malinois mix who loved to jump. Her standing vertical leap was six feet, and MVAS staff had to put a roof on her kennel to keep her corralled. She wasn’t friendly towards other dogs. Not only was Tee a natural jumper, but “she ha...
RONAN —After working a minimum wage job, Mona Ray realized she needed more training and a better job to support her daughter. Ray now is studying to be a dental assistant. She and her classmates Sharmyne LaForge and Kourtnie Gopher are off-campus students at Kicking Horse Job Corps and attend dental...
POLSON — Polson’s three mayoral candidates — Heather Knutson, Michael Brandt and Bob Fulton — spoke about themselves and their reasons for running for mayor at the Pachyderm meeting on Sept. 27. Michael Brandt moved to Polson four years ago. He grew up near Philadelphia is a...
PABLO — Members of The People’s Voice, Inc., were out in force on Sept. 27 as their attorney Howard Toole filed papers at Confederated Salish and Kootenai court to begin the process of a secretarial election. The election will decide if Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal members want to a...
POLSON — A wheat field fire on Camas Road in Irvine Flats burned approximately 392 acres, according to Devon LaFrombois, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Division of Fire. The “man-caused” fire was called in to dispatch at 4:53 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16. Aided by blustery win...
In a conference call meeting on Sept. 11, the Judicial Nomination Commission passed a unanimous motion to reject applicant JoAnn “Joey” Jayne, Lake County Justice of the Peace, for the position of district court judge for the 20th Judicial District. The motion said “(Jayne’s) appli...
POLSON — The community was anxious to hear which of the five candidates for Polson City Manager was selected from the interview process. To end the suspense, Polson City Commissioners at the Sept. 17 meeting authorized Mayor Pat DeVries to negotiate with city manager candidate Mark Shrives. Mayor DeVri...
POLSON — A 3D model of a soccer shoe, an art piece or an a computer-aided design — these and many other ideas can come to fruition if Polson High School sophomore Johnny Umphrey has his way. Umphrey is raising money to buy a 3D printer for PHS students. “It’s the nex...
