Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
Pickup men work as a team, one or more behind the saddle bronc, keeping the bronc lined up with the arena fence while another dallies the bronc rein around his saddle horn, trips the sheepskin-lined flank strap and unbuckles the flank cinch — all with their horses going flat out. And this is after t...
POLSON — During city manager comments at the Aug. 19 city commission meeting, Interim City Manager Karen Sargeant said she attended the first meeting of the Skyline Drive grand opening committee. The group plans a ribbon cutting and a meet-and-greet for the completion of the $12-million project.&...
POLSON — A man and his two dogs went for a boat ride on Aug. 25 at about 10:30 a.m. The boat left shore at Paradise Cove, a RV resort with cabins on the east shore of Flathead Lake, according to the man’s wife. What happened after that is a mystery since a female who lives on one of the island...
POLSON — Polson schools open Tuesday, Sept. 3, but all the schools will hold events this week to welcome kids and their families back to school. • Cherry Valley Elementary School will hold an open house on Friday, Aug. 30, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for parents meet Cherry Valley tea...
POLSON — When the whistle blew at 8 a.m. on Aug. 24, 15 groups of chefs began chopping, sautéing and stirring so their chili would be ready for judging and sampling at 11 a.m. The cooks were all competing in the Rotary Festival for Youth’s chili cook-off at Riverside Park. ...
POLSON — “Good mornin’,” Dave Gray calls in a Louisiana drawl to a couple walking towards Flathead Lake. Gray works at Big Arm State Park, operated by the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Department, as a camp host. Big Arm State Park has 41 campsites and three yurts, two l...
PABLO — Montana Congressman Steve Daines stopped at Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal complex to meet with tribal leaders and Salish Kootenai College President Robert Depoe III on Aug. 23. On hand were Vern Clairmont, CSKT financial director; Arlene Templer, Department of Human Resource ...
POLSON — Judge C. B. McNeil, judge for the 20th Judicial District, which includes Lake and Sanders counties, will retire on Sept. 5, leaving a vacancy. The Judicial Nomination Commission will interview the applicants who applied for McNeil’s position by Aug. 7. Applying were Steven Norman Esch...
POLSON — “I’ve loved planes since I was little,” Clark Hymas said, eyes on the plane flying into the cloudy sky and hands on the controller. Hymas, from Richland, Wash., flew his plane, built 35 percent scale of a full size plane, over Chuck Mangel’s field east of U.S. ...
POLSON — “We call it our voyage to the end of the world,” Bev Thornton said. Bev and her husband Doug joined 16 other sailboats and about 40 members from the North Flathead Yacht Club in Somers for the club’s 7th annual sail to Polson. The group tied up at the KwaTaqNuk Reso...
