Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — District Judge C. B. McNeil retired on Sept. 5 after nearly 30 years on the bench. Judge McNeil, after 18 years in private practice, was elected in November of 1984 as the first judge in the new 20th Judicial District. The district covered Lake and Sanders County. On Thursday, Lake Count...
POLSON — A house fire at the Shipley residence off Rocky Point Road on Sept. 7 gutted the kitchen and bathroom area, according to Karen Sargeant, Polson Fire Department Public Information Officer. The fire started at between 7:30 and 8 p.m. and did approximately $200,000 in damage to the prope...
POLSON — With the new stoplight on U.S. Highway 93 at the turn to the Walmart Supercenter on Memory Lane, locals know the store opening is coming soon. “Yes,” said Dan DeWitt, store manager, “the new store’s grand opening is Oct. 23.” The Walmart Supercenter at...
POLSON — Polson schools welcomed seven new teachers and four student teachers back to school on September 3. Charlotte Delaney joins School District 23 as a speech language pathologist. A graduate of the University of Wyoming, Delaney taught in Wyoming and Colorado before moving to Polson, w...
POLSON — A mountain scene complete with pine trees stretches across the front of the old Gambles building on Main Street, concealing the building’s shabby visage. Local artist Rob Gunderson painted the mural, and it’s huge — a dozen 4-foot by 8-foot panels. He started the ...
POLSON — Polson Police officer Cory Anderson was placed on administrative leave after an alleged assault at Swanee’s Bar and Grill on Aug. 25. Law enforcement responded to an assault call at approximately 11:15 p.m. Anderson was not on duty and was not arrested Polson Police Chief Wad...
POLSON — Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputies recovered missing boater Nathan Bird’s body from Flathead Lake at about 12:45 p.m. on Aug. 29, according to Karen Sargeant, LCSO Public Information Officer. Bird, 36, from Huson, Mont., had bee...
POLSON — Tim Finkbeiner’s excitement is palpable; he radiates enthusiasm. “I can’t wait to meet the kids,” Finkbeiner said in an interview last week. Finkbeiner was hired as principal of Linderman Elementary School. He and his family — wife Janella, Jake, 14, and Kal...
POLSON — Members of the Polson High School class of 2017 met at the PHS gym on Friday, Aug. 30 in the first ever Link Crew freshman orientation assembly. Kris Sampson, PHS guidance clerk, and Rich Sawyer, PHS band teacher, led the crew, a group of PHS juniors and seniors wearing screaming gree...
POLSON — Team ropers Kelsey Phillips and Kevin Yazzie won the average at the Flathead River Rodeo, an Indian National Finals Tour Rodeo, with a time of 11.8 on two steers. Even though it was dusk, the ropers had many miles to go before they slept. Loading their horses in the trailer, they headed back t...
