Articles Written By: Berl Tiskus
After 28 years shaping and mentoring Polson cheerleaders, Carol Jones is retiring. Really retiring, this time. She’ll turn over the laptop and the pom-poms to Marete Frame and Alysha Valentine, who will continue to build on Carol’s program. Carol started out her cheer career as a chee...
POLSON — Long before First Lady Michelle Obama began her fitness campaign for kids, Linderman Elementary School Physical Education teacher Micki Stanley and school nurse Millie Nesladek cooperated to get kids involved in Jump Rope for Heart. This is the event’s 17th year in Polson schools. ...
POLSON — With warm temperatures and some sunshine, the construction team at Engineered Structures Inc. is in high gear at the new Polson Walmart Supercenter . A long line of concrete blocks snakes up the hill west of the current Walmart, leading the eye to the site of the new building. Whil...
PABLO — When the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes received approximately $150,126,000 from the Nez Perce/Salazar settlement last year, the Tribal Council decided to give each tribal member $10,000 on Sept. 12, 2012. That amount added up to about half of the settlement money. The Nez ...
The week of Feb. 25 to March 1 was a busy one for the water rights compact on the Flathead Reservation. First, on Feb. 26, the nine-member Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission approved the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes/Montana water compact and sent it on its way to the Montana State Le...
Tuesday, May 7, is Election Day for fire districts and service areas, irrigation districts, library districts and school board elections. Those filing for candidacy by Feb. 21 were: Charlo/Moiese Rural Fire District Trustee Ronald R. Bucholz Irvin Long Montecahto R...
POLSON — Firefighters from the Polson Volunteer Fire Department will be traveling to Seattle to climb the Columbia Center for the 2013 Scott Firefighter Stairclimb. Firefighters climb 69 floors, 1,317 steps and 788 vertical feet. No shorts and T-shirts are allowed, either. They climb in 45 pounds of fi...
POLSON — The Polson PRCA Rodeo will be even more enjoyable this year with new seating and renovated grandstands. The grandstands at the Polson Fairgrounds are getting a seat lift, thanks to a grant from the Montana Department of Transportation. Funded by lodging tax collected across the state of Montan...
POLSON — Art, hors d’oeuvres and a crowd beckoned people to the Sandpiper Art Gallery’s opening reception for its Native American Art Invitational show on March 1. Native American artists Ben Pease and D.G. House joined Salish and Kootenai College Art Department Director Karen Goulet and...
HELENA — Whether or not a proposed water compact for the Flathead Reservation will be finalized is now up to the state legislature following a Tuesday night meeting of the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission at the state capitol. The nine-member water commission approved the compact,...
