Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
LONE PINE — At a regular meeting of the Lone Pine and Camas irrigators, each candidate for Flathead Irrigation District 4 trustee had 10 minutes to field questions from the audience. Susan Lake and Shane Orien are running for the position held by Paul Hunsucker, who is vacating his seat. La...
HELENA — Sen. Verdell Jackson, R-SD 5, has the only water compact bill still alive in the 2013 Montana Legislature. Senate Bill 265 would extend the water compact deadline by two years, and it has passed the Senate. “It’s had executive action in the House of Representatives. Now it needs...
POLSON — “Keep your palm on the chest,” Dave Wheat cautioned a student as he circled the room. Wheat taught cardio pulmonary resuscitation and first-aid at the American Red Cross Training Institute held at the Fairgrounds Fire Station April 12-14. After two minutes of CPR, with the stude...
RONAN — “Exciting” is the word coach Crystal Pitts used to describe the combined Mission-Ronan high school track and field team. Pitts has been coaching for 34 years, first basketball and then track. She began coaching track so she could coach her own boys. “I didn’t have ...
It was a fast and furious week for the controversial Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, State of Montana and United States water rights compact. Rep. Kathleen Williams, D-HD 65, Bozeman, took over House Bill 629 to implement the negotiated water contract when Rep. Dan Salomon, R-HD 12 ab...
POLSON — Even a moniker like Lucky didn’t stop the fire that burned Lucky and Barbara Donnegan’s house on April 2, but the couple, their dog and their cat escaped the flames and were not injured. At approximately 6 p.m., dispatch received a call that there was a fire in the basement of t...
POLSON — In March, Polson City Manager Todd J. Crossett’s attorney filed a suit in district court against the City of Polson on Crossett’s behalf. The first count is a wage claim. Court records explained that in lieu of a contribution to the Public Employees Retirement System, t...
POLSON — Surprising many people, including Mayor Pat DeVries and Polson City Commissioners, Polson City Treasurer Bonnie Manicke announced plans to retire in May at the April 1 Polson City Commission meeting. Manicke began her 37-year career with the city when she first ran for the office in 1977, and ...
POLSON — The final phase of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s $12,000 TIGER road and bike path construction project will begin April 15. Skyline Drive will be one-way northbound beginning on April 15, and a pilot car or a flagger will guide motorists north at 20 minutes past t...
RONAN — The scenario: the Mission Valley is flooding, and some residents have been evacuated to shelters at Salish Kootenai College. A young man complaining of a headache and feeling ill was dosed with aspirin and rested in the shelter. The next day, the young man has a high fever, still has the headac...
