Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
POLSON — Plants, from tiny alyssum seedlings to lettuce to a decades-old orchid cactus, fill South Shore Greenhouse. And potting, watering, feeding and caring for these plants are four generations of women Lois Shore, Kathy Shore, Kari Wise and Ursula Wise, the youngest at 17. “My dad’s ...
POLSON — Clifford Oldhorn appeared in Judge C. B. McNeil’s courtroom on March 27, and his suspended sentences for three 2005 convictions for burglary, theft and deceptive practices were revoked since he violated his probation in February. Cole Brills, a probation officer in Polson, testi...
POLSON — It was a field trip, but the participants were adults, armed with pruning clippers and saws. The master gardener students from Jack Stivers’ class pruned the maple and ash trees along the east side of the sewer lagoons on Kerr Dam Road. The master gardener class is an eight-week...
Snowy, slushy roads and bad weather didn’t stop nearly 1,000 Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribal members from signing the People’s Voice petitions on March 23 and 24. With no place indoors, Elden White and a friend sat outside in the snow in Pablo. They had a canopy overhead and a ca...
POLSON — Although the agenda called for the selection of a contractor for the Polson High School project, trustees at the March 29 Polson school board special meeting did not. After the meeting began, Chair Caryl Cox quoted Montana Code Annotated and the attorney general’s opinion on ite...
PABLO — Harold Kent stands on one side of the conveyor belt loading Fleming Farms potatoes onto a semi-truck, and his nephew, Sam Kent, stands on the other. When Harold guides the conveyor belt out over the waiting truck and pulls the lever, the russet potatoes start rolling. “They (the cre...
The passage of the controversial Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, State of Montana and United States water rights compact ran into another snag when Rep. Dan Salomon, R-Ronan, announced Friday he will abandon his bill to pass the water compact in the 2013 Montana State Legislature. The votes...
CHARLO — Lake County Dispatch called the Charlo Moiese Volunteer Fire Department at about 4:06 p.m. on March 20 to send them to a grass fire threatening a building. By the time firefighters were about halfway to the incident on Ninepipes Lane, dispatch called again to inform them that the building was ...
POLSON — Polson City Commissioners unanimously approved Resolution No. 1042, an alternative project delivery method of contractor selection for the Riverside Park to Salish Point walkway and the West Pier replacement. Polson Redevelopment Agency President Ken Avison and Polson City Engineer Sh...
When the call came from Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center that Miranda Burland had moved from second or third on the kidney/pancreas transplant list to first, she knew not to get too excited. She’d had other calls, telling her she was second or third in line, only to next get the news that ...
